This is a 3 tiered birthday cake. The middle layer is chocolate and the other two are white. I used 8/6/4 inch round pans. It is completely buttercream frosting instead of fondant. I took a square cookie cutter and made an imprint on the bottom to make sure all the diamonds were the same size … Read more

My daughter Lily wanted a Punk Rock Princess party so I came up with this Topsy Turvy Birthday cake. The bottom tier was covered in lavender fondant and I painted the print with buttercream. The top tier was pink fondant covered with black stripes, cut out of fondant. The stars were also fondant which were … Read more

I got the general idea for this Topsy Turvey cake from various site such as www.pinkcakebox.com. This was actually for my own 30th birthday party. I loved the idea, and my husband priced out having a bakery make it, but it was going to be very expensive, so I decided to take it on myself. … Read more

I have always wanted to make a homemade Topsy Turvy baby shower cake, but needed the right occasion to do it. I thought a candy themed baby shower was the perfect time to try it. I researched how to make it online and this is what I came up with. I baked three 9-inch cakes … Read more

I learned this in my fondant class. I baked and cooled 3-layer cakes, dowel rod all tiers except top tier. I positioned the middle tier on the base tier, centering exactly (but first cut it, turned and put it back on). Repeat with the top tier. Prepare for covering with rolled fondant by lightly icing … Read more

This 1st Birthday Topsy Turvey Cake was the first Topsy Turvy cake I have done. It was for my daughter’s first birthday. I actually got the idea from another one on this site so thanks for that! It is a devils food chocolate with butter cream icing and fondant. I made the stars out of … Read more

I made this cake for my sister’s birthday. The top of the cake was made from 2 six inch layered cakes. One of the layers cut to an angle with a serrated edge knife. The flavor was strawberry cake with vanilla buttercream icing and middle of the cake had a chocolate hazelnut filling. The bottom … Read more

This Topsy Turvy Birthday Cake was my first attempt at a Topsy Turvy cake and my first time working with fondant. I first made 4 10in round white cakes. I made 3 8in, and 3 6in white cakes. I used different colors of Wilton icing coloring to dye each of the cakes a different color. … Read more

This was my first attempt at making a whimsy cake a.k.a. Topsy Turvy cake. It was for a friend’s daughter’s 16th birthday party which had an Alice in Wonderland theme. It is not a true whimsy cake in that the construction is not how the traditional whimsy cake is created. That is, I did not … Read more

This Topsy Turvy Cake is a 3-tier white cake, iced with buttercream, with marshmallow fondant decorations. I usually don’t cover the cake completely with fondant because most people do not like the taste, but I like the look of marshmallow fondant decorations. This cake was for a 40th birthday party, so the black was appropriate. … Read more