why, you ask?

i never really understood cake stands. they always felt to me like something that only bakeries or diners had and even then you needed a grown-up to pick up the glass lid for you.  maybe this holdover from my childhood is why i didn't think that they applied to me until recently.

last year jhubbs and i made a cake for our friend who was visiting. it was a creamy, crazy two layer triple chocolate concoction that oozed sophistication and glamour. we were so proud. and then we were stuck, what were we to do with it? we literally had nowhere to put it. our options were a cracked dinner plate the whole cake wouldn't actually fit on or a football themed nacho tray my husband received as a gift. needless to say, we went with the nacho tray and as we sat there eating with our beautiful dark chocolate concoction in the middle of the LSU nacho tray i began to think that maybe it was time for a cake stand.

since then i have been looking for one that is classic, that will work for the square cakes that i also make, and that wouldn't cost me a fortune. finally, i found it at kohls.

 it was originally $50, on sale for $24.99 minus $20 of free kohls cash i got for shopping there before and free shipping because their website was down (amazing costumer service by the way, so nice). so what did i pay for it? the $4.99 and tax which came to $8.18.   E., this should do you proud!

and i was so ecstatic about the savings on the cake stand that i also bought this set of mini-cake, cupcake, or candy dishes. $24 at macy's and now our table will have grown up dimension and we won't have to put aluminum foil on our beautiful creations anymore. so utile, so pretty. now i just have to make my famous christmas crackers to fill them!