Michael Jackson 50th Birthday Cake

This is what you need to make the Michael Jackson 50th birthday Cake:

2 cakes (I made a 24cm x 30cm and a 16cm x 16cm)
Butter Icing (I used 250g unsalted butter, 500g icing sugar and a little milk)
Jam
2.5kg White Regalice Icing (available at supermarkets or cake supplies shop)
2 x 250g or small packets of red and black sugarpaste (available at supermarkets or cake supplies shop)
Edible silver paint or edible glitter
Tube of red writing icing
Small edible silver balls
A Michael Jackson (mine was from ebay)
Cupcake toppers (again from ebay)
Some red stars (bought or made)
Candles
Cake board

Firstly I baked 2 Madeira cakes. I used the standard recipe for the small cake and multiplied the recipe by 3 for the large cake.
When the cakes were cold I sliced the dome off each of them using a large knife and was left with 2 flat topped cakes.
I then sliced each one in half and filled with butter icing and jam.
I gave each cake a crumb coat (thin covering of butter icing) and left to harden.
About 2 hours later I covered them in clingfilm and left overnight.
The next morning found some pictures on the internet and printed them off, to use as templates for my sugarpaste decorations.
I rolled out ready made regalice icing to about the thickness of a £1 coin.
After the cakes were covered I put one on top of the other.
Then I made all the sugarpaste decorations. A good tip is to do this on b aking or greaseproof paper so you can get them off easily!
Finally I decorated the cake!