Topsy Turvy Terror turns to delight

Take a look at all of the pics for this cake - what a labour intensive cake this is. Not to mention the cost of all ingredients, the dowels, the boards etc.  The cakes are american Pound Cake - which i probably will not make again - they use a lot of ingredients and are a bit unreliable, in so much as they can fail if you do not do things just right. The other cakes are butter cake from the AWW Book. Each tier has two cakes cut in half then sandwiched with butter cream.  Then they are trimmed to the desired shape and covered in butter cream and put in the fridge. Then the central hole/platform for the next tier is shaped in on the first and second cake. Then the fondant goes on. That is five 750gm packets altogether, 3.5 packs tinted pink and the other 1.5 left white.- the first and second cakes have six dowels each put through them around the outer edge of the platform area. The the cake is constructed and a long anchoring dowel is put through the entire cake. Then i covered up as many of the imperfections as i could with icing dots and balls.
End result - not too shabby. But not after a lot of fluttering of the heart and a few more grey hairs have grown.