The Giant Birthday Cake

Once, a king ordered that a giant birthday cake be baked for him although all the people of his kingdom were starving.
"My finest architects should design it. It should be as tall as my palace; with a 100 tiers and covered in golden icing and sparkling gems of sugar", he commanded, "No expense should be spared".
And so, over a 100 days, hundreds of cooks and slaves worked day and night to prepare the giant cake and ontop of it were placed candles the size of roman pillars whose light could be seen from miles around.
Then, upon a giant golden cart pulled by 12 white horses it was dragged to the palace.
But things did not go quite as the king had planned.
For peasant revolutionaries who had long plotted to overthrow the cruel king captured the cake and, mounting the white horses they drove it to the palace where, using the tiers of the cake as their stairway the rebel army climbed over the palace walls.
Ofcourse, guards fired arrows at them from the battlements but they shielded themselves behind the giant birthday candles and then, pushing together knocked one of the blazing candles off of the cake which fell down into the palace starting a fire.
Then, after a trememdous battle, eventually the king was captured and spent his birthday in jail while his cake was cut up by the rebels and shared among all his poor starving people and they all had a happy time even if the selfish king did not.