This is our last day of cake week and today we are talking about all the unique ways you can display your cakes, cupcakes and favors! Sure you may have tasty desserts at your special event, but displaying them in a unique way is even better. It'll grab the attention of your guests and make them question if that is what they think it is. So, for our last day of cake week we are going to talk all about fun ways that you can display special treats!

Cupcake Trees – Of course, most everyone has heard of cupcake trees. However, play them up and make them unusual. Make the tiers round, square or a unique shape. Make them your own. A display that will represent the theme of your wedding or event. If you use a cupcake tree, incorporate the elements of your wedding or even into it.

Use ribbon or scrapbook paper for the cupcake tiers to incorporate your wedding colors or party theme into it. Make it an odd shape, start with the smaller tier first and get bigger as you go up. Or create a tree out of your cupcake tower, where it actually looks like a tree. There are all sorts of unique things that you can do with a cupcake tower, just get creative!

Flower Pots – Yes, flower pots are great ways to display cupcakes! It can serve as a centerpiece, delicious treat and even a party favor. As part of our cake week videos, we are giving you a how-to video on cupcake flower pots. They sound so adorable, right? All you need is a styrofoam ball, cupcakes, flower-pot and icing.

Bake the cupcakes like you normally would, ice them like you normally would or put fun designs on it and stick them into the styrofoam ball with toothpicks. Arrange them like you normally would flowers in a centerpiece. To fill it the gaps, ice green icing in them to make it look like grass or actually use Easter grass. It makes for a fun display!

Vintage Cake Stands -Vintage cake stands are so divine for any party. You can find them in various colors with unique designs that would be great for a shabby, chic wedding or event. Use different colors and designs and pair them with different textured and colored cakes. Make a table completely dedicated to cakes with vintage cake stands. It will truly be an attraction at any wedding or event.

Replica – Another fun idea that you can do when using cupcakes is actually make a replica of something. This would be ideal for a special event or birthday party. Just bake cupcakes, ice them in the colors that you want and get to creating. Place them out on the table to resemble a flag or a flower or even a pirate ship. These would be great as birthday cakes!

For example, use pink cupcakes for the petals, yellow cupcakes for the middle and then green cupcakes for the stem and leaves. All you have to do is make sure you have enough space on the table and lay the cupcakes out in that design. It's like you're drawing a flower out of cupcakes!

If you're really creative, carve a design out of styrofoam or even wood. Use toothpicks and icing to hold the cupcakes in place on the 3D sculpture. How fun would that be! Maybe your son loves race cars, well make him a race car out of cupcakes! It would truly be a unique sight to see!

These are just 4 ways that you can display cakes or cupcakes at your event and each one is so unique and creative! Your guests will be wowed at each display! Not only will they receive delicious cake, but they'll have a unique presentation to look at. Presenting your sweets in a fun way truly adds to your event. With one of these displays, your wedding or reception will be one to remember.

cake stand photo provided by LOLren via flickr.

You are planning the perfect special event or party. You want to give your guests something that they can remember how special your event was with memories. However, do better than that. Send guests home with a special party favor that they will enjoy at home. Letting your guest take a favor home with them will truly remind them of how amazing your party or wedding was, it will bring them back to that very moment. As a part of Wedding And Party Network's cake week, we've found wonderful wedding or party favors that you can do with cake and other sweets! How fun and tasty will that be for your guests to take home with them?

Wedding Cake Tower – What's a wedding cake tower you're asking? Well, it's basically sugar cookies stacked in the form of a wedding cake. All you do is take 3 sugar cookies in a large size, 3 in a medium size and 3 in a smaller size. Ice each one of them with white icing and then stack them according to size. It will create a tier effect that looks like a wedding cake.

Place these in beautiful plastic containers and tie it up with a ribbon. These wedding favors will make absolutely wonderful wedding favors, as well as providing an amazing presentation.

Cupcakes In A Jar - Everyone enjoys cupcakes. Well, why not serve them in a jar for a tasty treat they can take home? All you do is find cute jars, bake cupcakes according to directions and find some colorful icing and ribbon. After the cupcakes have cooled, layer the cupcake then icing and add some sprinkles or whatever else you'd like in the jar.

As part of cake week, you can watch our how-to video  below. You can use whatever type of cake mix you would like and even dye it with food coloring to get the colors of your event. Also, do the same thing with the icing. That way, if you have more than one color to your party or wedding theme, you can combine the two to create a favor fit for just that. To finish it off, tie a fun ribbon on top of the jar!

Themed Cookies -Decorative cookies are always great favor ideas. Whether you are wanting to create wedding cookies or party cookies, your local bakery will be able to fix them up. If you're planning a wedding, let wedding cake shaped cookies be part of your favor. Are you planning a beach themed party? Well, make fun flip-flop or beach ball cupcakes that are colorful and fun!

Tasty Favors – There are actually tons of ideas out there for using food as part of your favors. You can use chocolate truffles and featured them in a cute little box all tied up with ribbon. How divine does that sound?

Are you planning a summer through fall wedding? Is it outdoors? Well, serve up honey in jars that would make such a cute favor! Honey, chocolate truffles, candy and even doughnuts would all make delightful treats that your guests will love!

There's no doubt about it, if you send your guests home with tasty treats as part of their party or wedding favor, they'll definitely remember your event. Whenever they use your favor at home, they'll definitely think of you. Stay tuned for our final day of cake week!

wedding cake cookie photo provided by krystal.pritchett via flickr.

You've had a beautiful wedding ceremony and now it's time to enjoy yourself at the wedding reception. So, what's one of the first things that guests notice as they walk into your beautiful wedding reception? Yes, they may check out and see what's to eat and take a look at how you've arranged everything, but they're mainly interested in the wedding cake. You need to have a wedding cake that represents the theme of your wedding and a cake that will wow them! So, as part of Wedding And Party Network's cake week, we've come up with a few ideas that will amaze your guests at your wedding.

Wedding Cupcakes – Instead of going with the traditional wedding cake, choose wedding cupcakes! Cupcakes are simply great for any event! You can feature them in a variety of flavors to suit everyone's taste and are designed to fit the theme of your wedding.

Plus, you won't have the added stress of trying to find someone to cut and serve the cake. You'll be able to feature, strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, red velvet, oreo, banana or butter pecan cupcakes to your guests, something that you wouldn't be able to do with a wedding cake. They make a wonderful bite sized cake that guests can pop into their mouth.

Miniature Wedding Cakes -Another great idea that your local baker can create is miniature wedding cakes. If you'd rather settle on a 2 tiered wedding cake, serve mini replicas of your wedding cake to guests. How cute would that be? You can feature different flavors to appease each guest and have it created to look like a wedding cake with a cake topper and all. If you're serving up lots of delicious food, you can place to-go boxes for the mini wedding cakes and they can serve as part of your wedding favors.

Cake Pops – If you want a delicious bite that guests can easily pop in their mouth while mingling, cake pops are a great idea! As part of cake week, we've featured the how-to video for cake pops below. They are extremely delicious and you can come up with lots of ideas to make them your own. First off, cake pops are cake with icing mixed into it which are then dipped into chocolate.

You can use milk chocolate, white chocolate or use food coloring to dye the white chocolate to fit your wedding colors. You can even press the cake mixture into miniature cookie cutters to create fun designs. Get a miniature wedding cake cutter and mold the cake into that and stick it on a lollipop stick. You can even decorate it with a cute little heart topper and sprinkles to make it look like a wedding cake even more.

Make It Your Own -The main thing to remember when designing your wedding cake is to always create with you in mind. If you're the traditional bride, stick with the traditional wedding cake and your colors. However, if that's just not who you are, create a wedding cake that fits you. Maybe purple and green are your favorite colors or you both enjoy a certain sport, incorporate it into your wedding cake. Remember, it's your wedding day.

These 4 wedding cake ideas are sure to amaze all your guests. Providing them with a tasty creation and a work of art will add such a great element to your wedding day. Always keep in mind that this is your day, therefore, design the wedding cake for you!

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This week, Wedding And Party Network is kicking off the start of cupcake week! We have tons of unique ideas that we will be talking about and showing you through our videos! Cakes and cupcakes are such a great accessory to any party of wedding. You can truly make them your own and show off your personality and theme through cakes. So, for our first day of cake week, we are going to talk all about the fun things you can do with cupcakes!

A Variety Of Different Flavors & Icing

Wedding Cupcakes

Cupcakes are such a great treat for your guests to enjoy! They're simple and easy enough to pop in your mouth as you go. Plus, you can feature them in different flavors to appease all sorts of taste buds. You can feature them in vanilla, white cake, chocolate, strawberry, banana, cherry, butter pecan and pair them with delectable icing to go along perfectly with the flavor of the cake.

Your local bakery can come up with lots of variations of cupcakes, you just need to visit them and see! Now that we've covered the basics on the fact that you can feature cupcakes in a ton of flavors paired with different icing and are a delectable bite to pop in your mouth, what can you do with them to make them your own?

Get Creative

Are you wanting to use cupcakes for your wedding? Great idea! Again, you'll have guests at your wedding that don't share the same taste buds. Therefore, you can feature many flavors for your guests to try and you'll satisfy each and every one of them. However, get creative when showing off your cupcakes. Use fun cupcake liners or toppers.

You can feature cupcake liners that have your wedding colors or party colors in it. Also, another way to incorporate the theme of your party or wedding is with cupcake toppers. You can create fun little shapes out of fondant to place on top of your wedding cupcakes, come up with cupcake toppers that feature your name and wedding date or feature beautiful edible pearls or flowers.

If you're wedding colors are pink and green, feature a strawberry cupcake with green icing and a pink cupcake topper. Maybe you're throwing a nautical themed party, so, feature a vanilla cupcake with white or blue icing and place a fun lifesaver or anchor on top! Maybe you're throwing a kid's birthday party, guy's birthday party or an outdoor BBQ, well serve up hamburger cupcakes (You can see Wedding And Party Network's how to video on hamburger cupcakes below)! A cupcake with a brownie in the middle and some red icing will make a wonderful addition to any party! There are so many ways that you will be able to incorporate the theme of your event with cupcakes!

Now For The Display

Hamburger Cupcakes

You've got delicious tasting and creative cupcakes that represents you, now all you need to do is display them. Use a cupcake tower, set them out in a unique pattern or send them home with guests as part as a wedding or party favor. Use a round, square or a unique shaped cupcake tower to display your cupcakes on. You can decorate each tier with paper or paint to fit the theme of your event. Create a unique shape for your cupcakes.

Create a tree out of wood and place your cupcakes on that if you're having a all-natural wedding. Are you throwing a princess birthday party? Well create a large princess wand and have side tiers going up it to place princess themed cupcakes on! Again, there are so many unique ideas out there, you just have to think outside the box and get a little creative.

Cupcakes are great accents to have at any party and all you have to do is get a little creative with them, or have your local bakery. They are fun little bites that can be placed in the mouth to appease all taste buds. Come up with unique taste combination, as well as coming up with a creative design that fits your event.

You’ve just attended a beautiful, meaningful wedding ceremony of a close friend. Your heart is aflutter with the feelings of love and romance. As you make your way to the reception, you imagine the glow of candlelight, beautiful crystal, silver, and pristine china place settings at each table. You wonder what the wedding cake will look like: square or round? Three or four tiers? Elegant or whimsical? As you enter the reception hall, it is just as you imagined. Your eyes search for the center of attention: the wedding cake. Ah, yes, there it is in the center of the room, but wait, that’s not – oh it can’t be -cupcakes?

Wedding Cupcakes Take the Cake

Welcome to the latest trend in wedding cakes. No longer is the traditional tiered wedding cake a "given." Brides and grooms are choosing various alternatives to the main attraction of their wedding receptions. And cupcakes are a big hit these days. But these aren’t the homemade cupcakes your grandma used to make.

These are miniature works of art as bakers give attention to every detail, just as they would a wedding cake. And when you come to think of it, there are many advantages to using cupcakes as your "wedding cake." You can vary the flavors, the decorations, and how you display them. They can be "tiered" on pedestal cake plates for a cake table centerpiece or served at each place for a sit down reception, which eliminates the sometimes messy slicing of a cake. And they can be more cost-effective than a traditional wedding cake. What’s not to love?!

Go for Decadence with Cheesecake

Another popular alternative being used a lot is cheesecake. As a favorite restaurant dessert, cheesecake can be especially elegant and decadent. And if cheesecake is something you and your fiancé love, why not serve it at your wedding reception instead of wedding cake? It has the versatility that cupcakes have in that you can tier several cheesecakes for a wedding cake look or you can serve individual cheesecakes. And the flavor possibilities are endless: dark chocolate truffle, key lime, white chocolate with raspberry sauce, pumpkin—any flavor you like! Again, you can serve more than one flavor to appeal to all your guests.

Mini Cakes with Maximum Impact

This trend works especially well for sit-down receptions. Let the centerpiece for each table be a miniature tiered wedding cake that will serve all the people at that table. It’s a cake; it’s a centerpiece; it’s a little more personal, too.

You can vary the flavors, colors and styles of the cakes at each table or keep them all the same for a cohesive and elegant look, and you have all the design and flavor possibilities of a traditional wedding cake. Provide a cake knife and server at each table and let the guests serve themselves.

It’s Easy as Pie!

You can really rock your guests’ world when they’re expecting the same old wedding cake—and they get a luscious, homemade pie. Many brides are choosing to serve fruit or cream pies at their wedding receptions for a more informal dessert, and in many cases just because they prefer pie to cake.

For regions known for their apples, blueberries or strawberries, this is an exceptional way to show off your state’s prized fruit. You can find the best bakery in town to create beautifully baked pies, or you can ask that family member known for their great-tasting pies to lend a hand and bake them for you.

What could be better at a July wedding than a juicy, homemade apple pie? Or a tangy key-lime pie with freshly whipped cream in June? And nothing tastes better than strawberry pie when strawberries are at their peak. Whatever month your wedding is, there is a pie that will work perfectly. Again, you can serve the pies from a central location or provide a centerpiece pie at each table for the guests to help themselves.

These would look especially pretty on a silver or crystal pedestal cake plate. There’s something about eating a slice of homemade pie that brings back happy childhood memories and nostalgic feelings, which is a great way to celebrate your big day.

We All Scream for Ice Cream?

Ice cream is associated with celebrations: birthdays, July 4th, a cool treat on a hot summer night. So, why not let ice cream be the centerpiece of your wedding reception? You can offer an upscale ice cream bar where guests can create their own ice cream sundae masterpiece. Use silver ice cream scoops, silver bowls and spoons for toppings, and let your guests dig in. While it may seem unorthodox at a wedding reception, your guests will have a great time and will always remember what a blast your reception was.

So, whichever trendy alternative you choose in lieu of a traditional wedding cake, it will be a surprisingly delicious way to celebrate your wedding. And it will be another way your individuality can shine through on this special day.

A special thanks goes to:

Toria Dolce Fine Desserts & Wedding Cakes, an Ashaway Rhode Island wedding cake bakery, for their wedding cupcakes photo.

Palermo's Bakery, a wedding cake bakery in Ridgefield Park NJ, for their mini wedding cakes photo.

Callie's Confection, a bakery in Asheville NC who speicalizes in wedding cakes and pastries, for their strawberry pie photo.