Ok, for all of you top notch decorators out there, I have a question. Have any of you ever done a upside down wedding cake? Where the smallest layer is on the bottom? My mom went to a wedding and that's what they had. She was trying to explain it to me, but I just couldn't picture it. If anyone has ever done one, I'd love to see a picture and some instructions. Thanks, you guys are great!
I haven't seen one but if it's properly doweled it out to work. Hopefully someone will have a pic to share.
That looks too strange for my taste, I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to flip it over the other way- and when I looked at the picture, I thought it was going to collapse. I've never seen a cake done like that, thanks for sharing the pic!
All I can say is WOW!!!!!!! that is amazing! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!! the colors those are the same colors I want at my wedding lol. So much thanks for that photo!!!
Thanks, that really looks great, I really want to try one. If anyone has instructions please pass them along.
I am also on the "this looks a little odd" side of the coin. I would want to flip it over too.. LOL Interesting though!
I want to try that cake!!!! WHAT FUN!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!What do you mean by firmly dowled to the cake boards??. Do you mean just use a lot of dowels or do you mean to actually screw the dowels to the base plate. How many dowels would you suggest??? That is my cake for next week. LOVE THIS SITE!!!!
I was just cruising around at that site checking out her/his/their other photos and I was thinking.... This woman asked me to do this cake for her son and soon to be DILs babyshower last month, well when she freaked out because I wanted to know flavors of cake and if she wanted fillings and such she just stopped talking to me about it and went directly to the person whom she grabbed the picture from, someone in Las Vegas... I want to say Fred's of Vegas but not sure, anyway she emailed them and they gave her the directions step by step on how to recreate it and she did a darn good job on the looks part of it but it tasted soooooooooooooooooo bad lol...
Here's a REALLY good one!
http://www.ultimatebrownies.com/images/cakes/2lg.jpg
Oh, and this is a link to an upside down weddingcake, even though the website is brownies. Guess she does both!
I looked at that pic and my jaw dropped 
If I ever had to make such a cake I would feel the need to sit there and babysit it until it was cut 
Personally, they look ugly! Not something I'd want or want to do, however impressive and unusual, but that's just me!
That cake from the brownie website is impressive.. a feat of gravity defying confectional magic for sure..
Hmmm I wonder if doing something like that for the state fair would be cool..... heck it'd be easy w/ styrofoam, right??? 
I don't get it either though - are they using plates or cardboards to support the layers? And wouldn't they show through b/c the next layer down is smaller than the layer above it? I would think you'd be left w/ some ugly cardboard or plate showing...... I don't understand it either....
I just don't know how you really support the "overhang" of the layers above the bottom one....
Looking at the picture, it doesn't seem all that difficult to me. My eyes and brain see it put together this way;
Bottom cake on a solid plate. Cake has hidden cake dowels pushed into it.
Next cake up is sitting on the base plate that snaps into the bottom cake dowels. Again, hidden dowels (more this time) pushed into this cake.
Next cake up is sitting on the base plate that snaps into the 2nd cake.
And so on.
Am I cuckoo here or what? It looks simply like stacking cakes on solid base plates to me. Someone please correct me if I am off base here. I have never done such a cake but this is how I see it at this moment.
Lanesmom, No doubt it would be top heavy but it is simply balancing the cakes one on top of the other, I think. To serve the cake one would remove the top cake and cut it.......then on down the stack. The bottom cake would be the Brides cake to keep. Balance and solid bases looks like the key to making this cake.
Glad you see it that way too. Once the cake was assembled at the event I would want to put a nice 3 foot fence around the table so no one could get closer than that to it. Imagine someone bumping into that table! Oh my goodness! There would be no stopping that fall. 
How the heck do you cut an upside down cake? Not your traditional bride/groom cutting. Too bad you'd have to disassemble it to cut.
Neat concept though. I'd stress just trying to assemble it and making sure it didn't topple. Not to mention DELIVERY!
Those upside down cakes remind me of the Christmas Trees that people decorated upside down hanging from the ceiling. Never saw the sense in that either but if people want their weddings to stand out and be remembered , this would be the way to do it.
chaptlps...i think it was mike's amazing cakes that had one. i seem to remember seeing one while they were interviewing him for one of the food network challenges. i believe his was at least 5 layers though. i remember it was huge.
how many dowels can you possibley fit it to keep it stable??
You could cut the cake as is.. just the op of it rather than the bottom of it. i see it as being supported internally.. with there being no plate on the top of the cake.. I see plastic separator plates and a central dowel. The bottom would be supported by a flange of some sort secured to the plate and screwed into the dowel (obviously the central dowel would have to be thick er than your average dowel.. I am thinking 1/2 inch maybe 3/4 inch. Then you woudl dowel the cake the same.. the cake plates would have to have a hole in the center to accomodate the dowel.. here's an idea of how it might look..
You know.. a basic quick idea.. you'd probaby want a flange of some sort on teh base of the cake board as well to help stabalize the central dowel..
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