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Cake Pop Stand

I love cake pops, and so do my coworkers. In fact, my manager asked me to plan a coworker’s bridal shower and “maybe you could also make some cake pops please?” Of course displaying them is always a challenge.

My first cake pop stand was a piece of pink insulation foam painted with gold paint, and it worked, but it wasn’t the prettiest. Insulation foam is really hard to cut evenly, and I used a scrap piece. This one I made for a baby shower, and I had “baby girl” printed on the sides in the same color as the Congratulations. For the bridal shower I decided to reuse the stand, as it had survived a couple of months in our apartment without being taken apart for something else.

First I had to peel off the baby girl and it left a bit of glue marks, so I covered it up with some gold doily. The edges were lightly beat up from improper storage, but some gold washi tape fixed that right up. Luckily we were going for a pink theme so I didn’t have to rip off or cover the existing cardstock.

Lastly, I used my Silhouette to cut a banner and some hearts, as well as the names, using the same pinks as the base. I used bamboo skewers cut in half for the banner sticks and used washi tape to attach them so they can be removed.

For the base itself, I used foam core from the dollar store. I cut 2 6×12 pieces of foam core and 8 1 x 1 5/8 pieces for legs.

I made 4 L shaped corners with hot glue (long sides together) and glued them onto the bottom piece of foam core, and then glued the top piece on top.

I then cut 2 12×2 and 2 6×2 pieces of cardstock to cover the sides. Super easy! Next I marked in pencil one inch in from each corner, and every 2 inches between that for the holes.

I used a pointy stick (paper piercer, knitting needle, etc) to make a hole all the way through the top layer and halfway through the bottom. The I used the cake pop stick to expand the hole and make it fit snugly in the bottom half-hole (this is to keep the pop from flopping over.)