Help With Cupcake Stand!want To Make My Own
Decorating By aminaz Updated 3 Sep 2007 , 12:51am by acookieobsession
i want to make my own cupcake stand for 96 cupcakes and 1 8inch cake on top. i thought it would be easy so i brought 5 cake boards the largest is 18inch and the smallest is 8 inch. however im wondering now what to use to seperate them to give a nice balanced effect. the nearest cake decorating shop sells a small dummy cake for £3.50p thats nearly $7. i've read in a post that you will need 2 dummy cakes for each tier so that will be too expensive. is there something else i can use? maybe someone here has tried something different?
Depends on the look you want to achieve!
Some of the things that can be used to separate the tiers include:
Regular pillars (I.e. what you would separate cake tiers with) glued to the boards.
A wine glass between each board (Choose carefully - you want something strong enough to take the weight!!) You can put some flowers/petals in the glass for extra effect.
Styrofoam dummies, covered in the appropriate paper or foil.
Cheap, pretty candlesticks.
HTH 
There is a great tutorial here by one of our own very CCEr, hope this helps:
http://www.cakejournal.com/2007/06/how-to-make-cake-stand-for-cupcakes-or.html
Also Antonia has directions up on how to make a bigger cupcake stand, so you may search for that thread! HTH!
Sorry this is late...but I did this a couple weeks ago for my brother's wedding.
I did this...
Bought cake drums for 6-8-10-12 and a Masonite cake board for the base at 15"
Then i took a PVC pipe (about 2" by 2" round) to seperate
So i covered the boards with shelf liner...then covered the pipes with shelf liner.....then I glued the pipes to the boards (make sure you center them so they are in a line) with E6000 glue (lowes where glues are)
Then i wraped the ribbon around the edges and tada..a caupcake stand. i made about 75 cupcakes and probably had 20 left over on the table...
Bext time I would atach some sort of feet to the bottom so it would stand up a bit.
Here is the link to my photo....
http://www.cakecentral.com/modules.php?
name=gallery&file=displayimage&pid=879983
HTH
Julia
I agree I really like the tutorial posted. The only thing I was thinking about the pvc wrapped as that it would not tak e up as much space. I did not get as many on mine as I had hoped. Luckily my mom is a nut and insisted I have my own table.... 
Julia
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