My neice saw a picture of Collette Peters crooked cake and fell in love with it. She's asked me to make one for her graduation cake. If someone has made one - could you help with construction? I'm planning on making the cakes (14",10", 6" and a topper) regular but putting crooked foam between the layers to achieve the crooked affect. She wants flowers placed between the layers so I'm going to use floral foam. Would I use dowels for stacking and 1 long one to go through the whole cake to keep it from toppling? Would I have to shave one end of each dowel crooked? Not sure on any of this part. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

here is an article on construction a crooked/whimsy cake:

http://www.cakecentral.com/article1-Instructions-For-Building-A-Whimsical-Tilted-Cake.html

The article is not there.

try here: http://cakecentral.com/a/how-to-make-a-topsy-turvy-whimsical-cake

or you can go into tutorials > how to's & it's on the 1st page.

Heres a good video about it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHY_F53ClJ8&feature=channel_page

Ahttp://sugaredblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/graduation-wedge-cake.html

This shows you how to construct the cake with styrafoam wedges rather then the carved style which in an above tutorial.