Thanksgiving Cupcake Stands

Thanksgiving cupcakes are the perfect dessert...so you need the perfect display. The creative artists on Etsy have solved that problem!

Joplin Designz

(comes in square and round)

braggingbags

affairaphernalia

My Favorite Cupcake Stands

I made 125 cupcakes today for a friend's birthday.  They will be using my favorite cupcake stand....the large leaf stand from Boss Manufacturing.  It was designed as a plant stand but makes a perfect cupcake stand.

Boss Manufacturing has several unique new cupcake stands.  I have ordered three stands from them and their customer service is excellent.  Here are my favorites!

Large tree stand

holds 36 cupcakes

holds 24 cupcakes

holds 2 dozen cupcakes

Cupcake Stand for Easter Eggs

No cupcakes in this stand....but a very creative way to display your dyed eggs.  I don't think your cupcake stand will mind. 

Mayhar Drygoods via Flickr

Name That Cupcake - Win a Cupcake Stand!

Please help me name my traveling cupcake!  I bought this cupcake from the Etsy store of Crystal's Creations.  I am going to be taking the cupcake with me when I travel and photographing my cupcake adventures (kind of like the Travelocity Roaming Gnome).

Submit cupcake names to carpecupcakes@gmail.com and on April 1, 2010 I will choose the top five submissions and randomly draw the winner!  I will contact the winner by email.  Anyone can submit a name, but I can only mail the prize to an address in the U.S. and Canada. 

The person who submits the winning cupcake name will receive a five-tier silver cupcake stand by Gordinger.  Retails for $54.99. 

Thanks for your participation!

Christmas Cupcake Stand

Marshall's is one of my favorite stores & I found this cupcake stand there this week.  You can change the ribbon around the rim to match any special occasion.

CD Cupcake Stands

I am headed to Michael's this afternoon to get the materials to make these cupcake stands.  These are decorated for Halloween, but you can decorate them for any occasion.  What a great way to serve dessert at a holiday party!

The Swell Life tutorial will show you step-by-step instructions to make this stand out of a styrofoam cone and a CD.

Make Your Own Cupcake Stand

Need a cupcake stand for a special holiday or celebration but don't want to spend a lot?  Cake Journal has instructions for a nice one that can be decorated in many ways. 

How to make a Cupcake Stand

Cake Journal Tutorial

New Cupcake Stand

This cupcake stand was a birthday gift from my good friend Kristi and we have the same birthday. She is a chef and we share the love of the kitchen in different ways - she likes the savory and I like the sweet!

Cupcake Tree

Always on the lookout for interesting ways to display cupcakes, I recently came across these cardboard tiered displays from Cupcake Tree. They are available in two sizes: regular (holds 150-300 cupcakes) and mini (holds up to 100 cupcakes). Choose round or square!

Cupcake Tree displays can be decorated in a variety of ways. You can glue leaves, ribbon, silk flowers, candy, crayons or garland to the edges. You can add chocolates, seashells, flowers, candy or fruit between the tiers. The Cupcake Tree web site offers creative decorating ideas and photos!

Cupcake Bouquets

Send a edible bouquet today...and I don't mean flowers! Cupcake bouquets are an outside-the-box idea for wedding and party centerpieces. Order from your local bakery or try to make your own. There are numerous online sites and YouTube videos demonstrating how to do-it-yourself.

I made this one using a Wilton cupcake stand and a flower pot with silk ivy and maple leaves.

Cupcake Stands

How did I become involved with cupcakes? After attending a few weddings last year, I began to take notice of how boring cake stands seemed to be. I live at Lake Tahoe and destination weddings are common, with many brides choosing non-traditional venues. I wanted to offer brides a variety of traditional and non-traditional cake stands.

At about this same time, a friend of mine who makes beautiful multi-tiered wedding cakes asked me to make cupcakes for an upcoming wedding. How would I display these cupcakes? I started doing research on cupcake stands and found that the options consisted of cardboard or acrylic...your basic round and square shapes. This must change!

I started making custom cake stands and also collecting unusual plant stands to display my cupcakes...and thanks to a few local wedding planners and florists, I soon had a business renting cake stands. Here are a few of my most popular ones!