I've seen this a lot but I've never tried it. Actually I don't know how its done. The pleating on the bottom tier of this photo
Attached is an example....
Thanks heaps 
sorry, attaching now!
wow, why won't it let me attach?
it was like this cake here: http://cakecentral.com/modules.php?name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=1826873
If you read the comments under that picture I posted how I made the pleats.
Awesome. Well that makes sense Now doesn't it ! - for some reason I was thinking maybe it was done with a whole sheet of icing not individual peices. I will have to try this now that I know- so simple yet so effective.
I would assume it still took some time to do?
When you got to the top of the tier, did you trim down all the excess sitting at the top or some how flatten it down?
I guess a cake like this would always need a big flower on top to cover all the joins and pieces?
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