How To Make Your Own Cake Stands

Nothing says party like a cake stand.

But cooks with small kitchens don't always have room to store the spindly stands. (We keep our two tiered glass cake stand from Crate and Barrel in a box in the top of the closet on top of the Christmas decorations.)

Here's a crafty solution from the editors at Martha Stewart Living: make your own cake stands out of leftover party supplies. The current issue of Good Things for Kids shares the step-by-step instructions on how to use party cups, two sizes of paper plates, and crepe paper to make these festive cake stands.

Get your glue guns ready, people.

Comments (5)

I've always used that "earthquake" putty and put a plate onto an upside down vase. Looks like a cake stand and works like a cake stand, so it must *be* a cake stand.

You just have to make sure that both pieces are shaped in a way to make it stable.

Whoa. Surely disaster would ensue once the moisture of the cake soaked through the flimsy paper plate and cup? I know we are green and all, but I would only try this with plastic and an angel food cake or something similarly light and fluffy. Nothing with frosting at all.

My solution when I was faced with a storage issue was to go multipurpose via the Anchor Hocking domed cake stand you can buy for $10 at the big box home stores. If you invert both parts, it becomes a punch bowl (or a massive trifle dish!). The box also had a picture with the bottom inverted with cocktail sauce in the hollow pedestal and shrimp surrounding it on the base, but they were kinda reaching by that point.

Yeah, I wonder how the outer edge can support all the cupcakes, since it's only paper holding it up? Looooove Martha, but maybe this is designed for quick pick-up of cupcakes at the party?

A disaster waiting to happen.