In my head, this is how last week's Rose Cake post was going to go; publish post, wait for the comments come rolling in. The comments would be: the cake looks great and what an ordeal but that PEDESTAL! THAT CAKE STAND! WHERE DID THE CAKE STAND COME FROM? It was going to be question after question about the glorious cake stand until I finally broke down and let you know I MADE the cake stand and everyone could calm down because I was going to do a post on it.
I had it all figured out.
Instead the comment section turned out to be a free-for-all on who has the best carrot cake recipe and then all the brussels sprouts loving weirdos starting trying to make me like brussels sprouts again.
Nobody asked about the pedestal. No one.
Assholes.
But just to show I'm not one to carry a grudge (or a concealed weapon) I'm going to show you how to make this cake stand anyway. Even though we've established you're assholes. Who eat brussels sprouts.
This is kind of complicated, the sort of thing that I probably wouldn't recommend you try unless you're really confident in your ability to glue one thing to another. So mainly you need either one working hand or even just a good set of teeth and a strong armpit.
Materials
Round Marble cutting board / cheese tray
1 bowl
Silicone
Technique
1. Remove any stickers, foot pads from marble.
2. Center the base of your bowl onto the underside of the marble.
3. Mark around the base of the bowl with a pencil.
4. Run bead of silicone around the bowl base.
5. Set bowl back on centre of marble using pencil mark as a guide.
6. Allow to dry for several hours before moving or using.
I got my hunk of marble for $14.99 at Homesense. That's Homegoods to you American folks. I found the exact same one for $19 on Amazon. It's really pretty. It has bits of sparkle in it. Natural sparkle. Not stripper sparkle.
The bowl is from Dollarama which I already had in my cupboard and I always keep silicone on hand because you never know when you're going to have to glue it to his leg.
The hardest part of this whole project was scraping the label off of it. For $14.99 you apparently don't get one of those easy to peel off labels.
The board had little felt feet so I scraped those off too. (those of you using your armpit and teeth can wedge the board under your arm and just gnaw away at the feet. They'll come off lickity split)
Now rest.
You've spent 2 minutes removing sticky things. Now you need to get down to real work with a real tool. A pencil. Centre your bowl to the underside of the marble, with the base of the bowl touching the base of the marble. Mark it with a pencil.
Once you've marked the circle, flip the bowl over and run a bead of silicone around it.
Do it as neatly as possible. So nothing like mine.
Place the bowl back on the marble, lining it up with the pencil mark.
Wipe away any silicone that oozes out.
Now you have a beautiful marble cake stand that was fun and inexpensive to make. If you have better acquaintances than I do, everyone will rave and rave about it, asking where you got it from and how could they get one too. That PEDESTAL! THAT CAKE STAND! WHERE DID THE CAKE STAND COME FROM? That's what they'll say.
Of course I rarely have a cake to put on a cake stand but it looks great with other food items on it as well. Cake plate or Shake n' Bake plate this one's a winner.
kate
psst!
eucalyptus oil will get sticky labels/sticky anything off quick smart!
Jake
I think that bird is stuffed, but what do I know I'm an asshole.
Stephanie
Just wanna give you a shout out for the chicken stand picture. I raise pastured poultry. I know all my layers individually. They run to me, many will submissive squat and allow me to pick them up. But if I ever placed them on a cake stand, I doubt any would stand long enough for me to snap a professional, perfectly lit, looking up like a Sears 1st birthday photo. My photo would be of her hoping off, a blur, or worse. I do not doubt your talents. I don't even know how to use PhotoShop...but did you have the help of PhotoShop? Did you really get your Marans to stand centered on a piece of elevated marble with an adorable inquisitive look? As a poultry keeper, I need to know. Thx!
Ruth
What cake stand? I'm all about that foldable measuring (stick?) device..... and Shake n’ Bake Josephine. :D *DWL!*
The cake stand is cool, but I'm just lazy enough to want it to spin.... hehehe....
Julie
Pinterest may not be able to handle the enormous amount of hits due to your cake stand! Typhoid Mary loses her infamy status to Krashed Karen. (I know - Kirby ...)
Vanessa
I admit it, I'm an asshole. I didn't even notice the cake plate, which is suprising because I'm always looking for a good cake stand. So at the begining of this post I had to go back and look. And now I want cake.
I really like the stand too, but I'm hungry and the cake looks so tasty...
(I promise to make one as my penance for not noticing it the first time...and then I will put cake on it!!!!)
Kristin Ferguson
I did the same thing once! Well, almost. I needed a miniature cake stand for a job interview, and it needed to look like something from the 1930's. I went to an antique/junk shop and found a pink cut-glass dessert plate and a pink cut glass champagne coupe, turned the coupe over and shoe-gooed its base to the bottom of the plate. It came out so pretty!
As for the other project you mentioned, I'm pretty sure duct tape would do a bang-up job. Hot glue gun seems a little messy, and staples really aren't big enough to do the job properly. Also, duct tape is not permanent, and you never know if you might want to re-use the penis later.
Karen
That actually made me guffah in such a way that I spit on myself, lol. ~ karen!
Ruti
You're talented and HILARIOUS!
Greetings from Argentina
Jen
You see, the view of the cake on that lovely stand made me retreat into my bed for the past several days, pondering: How can I every be so awesome as Karen?
I am so doing this cake stand it's not funny! I am even pondering if I can make a tiered stand now!
Wendy W
Karen, the next time you need to take a sticky tag off of something, blow dry it first! If it doesn't come off, blow dry it some more until the sticky stuff is warm enough and it should come right off. Love the cake stand!
Ella
"I always keep silicone on hand because you never know when you’re going to have to glue it to his leg." Where in the hell did that come from? lol! :)
brenda
Happy Spring Karen!
JFarmar
Did ya'll miss the 80's? Everyone knew back then you use Superglue for the 3rd leg! The cake stand is wonderful and I too was so caught up in the cake and looking at the roses that I totally missed it. I was in awe that one would take so much time to make beautiful icing. Sometimes I serve the cake naked with the icing in a bowl so people can add as much or little as they want. One side of my extended family are health nuts and this makes them think carrot cake is healthy. Hhhehehe!
LazySusan
I think I have one of those marble slabs around here somewhere. What I also have is about 5 cake stands already, all antique glass ones, so that's perhaps why I didn't notice the one in your previous post. Also, the cake was taking up a great deal of my attention that day, as I recall. You can't dangle a gorgeous and delicious-looking cake in front of us, and expect us to notice anything else. That's just not fair. Not fair at all. Lovely cake stand, Karen. Lovely chicken and cat, also. And I have one of those rulers, also from my father.
Debbie
I love the last photo. I love it. I want a poster of it.
Karin
A couple of things:
1) Cake stand = magnificent, incomparable - will soon be the #1 pin on Pinterest, no doubt.
2) Josephine is beautiful - great photo.
3) Most astounding of all the things - that anybody reading this blog has not ever thought about gluing it to his leg (although like someone else mentioned I think I would use a hot glue gun instead. and run fast)
4) LOVED the Willie Nelson story.
That's it.
Karin
Kim from Milwaukee
Loooove the folding ruler....and the cat...and chicken....cake stand, eh. I don't make cake much anymore so whatever. I have a spinning cake decorating stand though, now those are cool. Cast iron base and everything.
Being called an asshole makes my week...seriously. Compliments are a dime a dozen, but name calling is rare and priceless these days. :) Especially from you, Karen. Cheers.
Ev Wilcox
Ummm, I kinda have a really beautiful cake stand w cover already. I let "Princess House" make it for me, even though I am so not "princessy" at all! Suspicious that my family loves my cake stand more than me. It is the first stop when they come home. If it is empty there is weeping and gnashing of teeth! Your cake stand is very nice, especially with the Black Marans on it! I haven't put any Brussels sprouts on my cake stand yet, but it's a thought!
Hope
OK guys...I'm just waiting for the next Pottery Barn or William-Sonoma catalogue to come out featuring....DRUMROLL....a lovely marble cake stand with a curved pedastle. Just you wait and see.
Brilliant Karen!
Maria
I spent a great deal of time puzzling over this sentence: "I always keep silicone on hand because you never know when you’re going to have to glue it to his leg."
Who is the "he" and what is the it are you gluing to his leg? Got a new guy in your life?
If you wanted people to notice the cake stand, you should not put a gorgeous cake on it. A purple monkey could have been holding that cake and no one would have noticed because, hey, it is cake.
Do you even know your audience?
Karen
LOL!! ~ karen