DIY - tiered serving tray

With one dozen cupcakes for our little New Years get together last night I was left wondering how to serve them up in style. I decided on creating my own tiered serving tray to display them, I figured that adding a little height to my cupcake display would make them look more stylish. How did I make a tiered serving tray at the last minute you may wonder. It was actually very simple. I took one full sized dinner plate placed a coffee/tea cup in the center of the plate upside down, then I placed my dessert plate on top of the coffee/tea cup as to balance the plate. Then I just added the cupcakes to the plates. Next time I do this to display my cupcakes I may try adding some museum putty to help hold all the pieces together. Of course you could get some flea market finds or even use some chipped dishes and permanently bond them together to make a tiered serving tray.

It's cupcake time

I love to bake yummy treats for the holidays and parties. In doing so I feel like I have used more than my fair share of those paper cupcake liners. Well I finally decided to treat myself to a dozen silicone cupcake liners. I absolutely love the bright colors they came in and that I can use them to heat other things up in. I used one to heat some leftover gravy up in the oven with. I just put it on the same dish as the leftovers and popped it all in the oven to warm up a nice meal of leftovers. I also love that these are a way to green up my baking a bit more, I already use organic ingredients and when possible eggs from the local farmer's market.