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How to Make Cardboard Cupcake Displays
By Victoria Sweeney
How to Make Cardboard Cupcake Displaysthumbnail Beautifully decorated cupcakes deserve to be shown off in style.

Wire or china cupcake trees are beautiful and festive, but they’re also expensive and awkward to store. With a few craft supplies, create a tiered cardboard cupcake display trimmed to perfectly match your party decorations or table linens. Use this same sort of display in different sizes to set out tea sandwiches, brownies, even hot and cold hors d’oeuvres.
Topic To Make Cardboard Cupcake Displays:

• Clear Plastic Glasses
• Cupcake Cake Stand

To Make Cardboard Cupcake Displays Difficulty:

• Easy

To Make Cardboard Cupcake Displays You’ll Need:

• 3 pairs of cardboard cake rounds in progressively larger diameters
• 4-inch-by-3-inch plastic foam column
• Hot glue gun
• 2 soup cans
• Colored paper
• Ribbon
• Scissors

To Make Cardboard Cupcake Displays Instructions:

• Glue each pair of cake rounds together back-to-back so that the finished side is out on both sides.
• Cut three pieces of paper about 4 inches tall by 10 inches wide. Wrap the pieces of paper around both cans and the plastic foam column and glue them in place.
• Center the largest cardboard disk over the plastic foam column and glue it down onto the top of the column. Let the glue cool and set for several minutes.
• Apply a fat drop of glue to the bottom of one of the covered soup cans and set it down on the center of the large cardboard disk. Use enough glue to bridge the space between the can bottom and the lip but not so much that it will squish out the sides. Let the glue cool and set for several minutes.
• Apply a fat drop of glue to the top of the soup can sitting on the largest disk and set the next-largest disk centered on top of it. Use enough glue to bridge the space between the can top and the lip but not so much that it will squish out the sides. Let the glue cool and set for several minutes.
• Glue the second soup can and smallest cardboard disk onto the tower, following the same process.
• Cut a piece of ribbon long enough to wrap around the largest disk and 1 inch longer for overlap. Run a bead of hot glue around the outside of the disk and press the ribbon in place onto the glue, being careful to keep the edge of the ribbon even with the top of the disk. Repeat this process with the other two disks.

• Line up the seams where the paper and ribbons overlap so that you can set it up so that the side presented to your guests is smooth and perfect.

• Before you start work, check that the ribbon doesn’t melt with the heat of the glue by adding a drop of hot glue on a snip of ribbon.