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Pretty Pedestals

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Take a look at these beautiful cake stands. That is if you can see past the skyline of sweets. I absolutely love this photo. Love it. I wish I could enlarge it and wallpaper my kitchen with it. This photo and the rest in this post (taken by Ashley Rose Photography) are photos of cakes from my friend Melody’s shop, My Sweet & Saucy. We’ve been internet buds from way back when I had a blogspot.com address. And since then, she’s gone from blogger herself, to superstar baker, making the most gorgeous cakes and working with the likes of Tori Spelling, Miley Cyrus and more. I just wish she wasn’t all the way in California. Actually, it’s a good thing I’m not in driving distance. For my waistline anyway.

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Oh dear. I need a pink ruffle cake in my life.

Pronto.

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Look at all these cakes. I mean pedestals. Big ones. Little ones. Tall ones. Short ones.

Melody also has an online store where you can find them all in one place.


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Yes, pedestals. Like this pretty little pink one. Perfect for a petite little cake.

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Or stack two and you can fill it with sweet little treats.

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Wait, you mean you don’t have a large and small pink glass pedestal or a sweet glass dome?

That’s terrible. Unthinkable.

Would you like one? I mean all three pieces in the photo above?

I thought you might.

Melody is giving them away to one of my readers. Yippee! Thanks Melody!

Enter for a chance to win this dome and two pretty pink pedestals.

  • Just leave a comment on this post and tell me the last occasion you celebrated with cake. Easy!
  • Deadline to enter is Wednesday, March 30 at 8 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up! Winner announced below.
  • One winner will be chosen at random* and announced sometime Wednesday evening on this post.

Good Luck!

Satisfy your sweet tooth and check out Melody’s stuff.

My Sweet & Saucy Supply – cake stands, and platters and bow;s, oh my!
My Sweet & Saucy Shop – the bakery
My Sweet & Saucy Blog – filled with tons of beautiful event and dessert table photos.

Other Credits: Ashley Rose – photography, The Loveliest Day – event design & styling, Found – vintage rentals, and Olive Hue – paper goods.

YAY! I picked a winner.

Duh, dah, dah… and the new owner of beautiful new pink pedestals and a glass done to top it off is… Comment #4838!

pedestal-winner

Congratulations Gloria!


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9,947 comments on “Pretty Pedestals”

  1. I helped celebrate the end of a 10 week marriage class on Sunday at my church with a small 2-layer ‘wedding’ cake. An 8″ and 6″ layer made for a cute reminder of the vows they had taken and the marriage they were improving!

  2. Ohhh these look so adorable! The last time I celebrated with cake was at a warm Sunday brunch last month. I actually used your red velvet cake recipe!

  3. My sister-in-law’s Baby Shower a week or so ago :)

  4. my birthday a few weeks ago! =)

  5. I celebrated Sunday with cake pops! I just love baking and every day is cake day at our house!

  6. I made a cake for my friend’s daughter’s 12 birthday :)

  7. I just made a cake last weekend to thank my coworkers.

  8. The last occasion I celebrated with cake was Valentine’s Day! I made a Strawberry Jell-O Poke Cake with freshly whipped cream for my hubby!

  9. These are so cute! my husband and i had a St. Pattys day party made rainbow cupcakes and cake pops other than that our last cake was our wedding!

  10. At a friend’s surprise birthday party on St. Patrick’s Day!

  11. Two of my friend’s had birthdays last Friday (March 25th) so we had Christmas in March themed cupcakes!

  12. We just celebrated my friend Kryssie’s birthday with a girl’s week-end and yummy chocolate cake!

  13. My last celebration with cake was my husband’s birthday. I made a triple chocolate cake that was so delicious! This Sunday we will have cake to celebrate my daughter’s baptism!

  14. My little sisters 18th birthday last week!

  15. my brothers 50 btday after his triple bypass heart surgery
    sugar free fat free chocolate cake

  16. The last time I had cake was celebrating my brother’s new house. Mmmm…I love cake!

  17. I hosted a baby shower for a dear friend and we celebrated with brunch then CAKE!!!

  18. Just because last night!

  19. My grandson’s birthday in December – holy cow, it’s been way too long!

  20. We love birthdays at the office … we have plenty of cake!

  21. last week, my new bakblik.. Chocolat cake with rolo inside, yum

  22. My daughter’s birthday.

  23. It was my Birthday!!!! These are truly beautiful.

  24. I think we should celebrate with cake more often! I celebrated with cake on Monday, well… because it was Monday! Kids love that!

  25. Valentines day — although they weren’t cake, persay! I made mini whoopie pies out of a cake recipe, with homemade peanut butter frosting!

  26. I had cake for my boyfriends birthday =]

  27. Getting ready to make a cake for my sweet husband’s birthday tomorrow!!! Yummy!

  28. St. Patty’s Day! I made green velvet cupcakes for a party at my house. I love using cake stands for cake, cupcakes, cookies, etc!

  29. This past weekend. My two boys and I had a baking day!

  30. I made Dog Cupcakes for my dog’s 6th Birthday. He loved them. We thought we should allow him to have his own cupcakes since we do for our birthdays. They were made with carrots, oats, flour, eggs, and applesauce. The frosting was cream cheese and applesauce.

  31. We went to a 2nd birthday party and my son got to eat cake. Then we got home and I wanted cake soooo bad, so I had to get my own cake! :o)

  32. I celebrated last Saturday with Paula Deen’s pink lemonade cake. As in, I was celebrating that it was Saturday.

  33. I celebrated my mom’s birthday with a cake — It was on Valentines day.

  34. My birthday! My 3 yr old grandaughter helped mix a vanilla cake with chocolate icing (from scratch!) with my daughter-in-law… extra special sweet!

  35. One reason…..I can think lots of reasons but really it will be in time for Mother’s day!

  36. My co-workers and I were in New York last week and found the cutest cupcake bakery! We had to have a cup of coffee and maybe the best coconut cupcake ever!

  37. My best friend’s birthday, today!

  38. The last cake we celebrated with was for my daughter’s 16th birthday! We made a lovely garden cake for her garden party celebration!

  39. I celebrated my Dad’s 65th birthday with a chocolate cake last month!

  40. Does there really have to be a special occasion for cake? I mean, it’s cake… every day is a great day for cake!!! So obviously I had cake like yesterday. ;) Hmmmm…. cake.

  41. My 2nd daughter’s 1st birthday on February 25….First cake I made with a successful crumb coat and smooth buttercream!

  42. My daughter’s graduation. What a very special occasion!!

  43. In anticipation for spring last weekend. I made bluebird cake pops for my daughter and two neices :)

  44. Today is my birthday and I’m having cake!

  45. My college roommate’s 30th birthday party!!

  46. My niece’s 2nd birthday last weekend! And every month my co workers and I have a celebration for birthdays that month!

  47. I made cupcakes for my friend’s baby shower. They were awesome!

  48. My niece’s 7th birthday…but I never need a reason to celebrate with cake! :)

  49. Friends brought an ice cream cake over for a dinner party last month “just because!” Always a sweet surprise! :)

  50. I hosted a baby shower for my sister-in-law to welcome my sweet niece. We had cake and cake pops, of course!!! Those pink stands would have looked fabulous with the case!

  51. My husband’s birthday!

  52. i attended a girlfriend’s liasophia (jewelry) show and took a cake i found in a Taste of Home magazine.

    http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Chocolate-Strawberry-Celebration-Cake?refurl=&_mid=455801&_rid=455801.1292561900.7922

    it was beautiful and delicious!

  53. This past weekend for my 25th birthday on March 25th! My golden birthday :)

  54. i made two mini-cakes with fondant (i’m just learning!) for two friends’ birthday at the beginning of march. they looked nowhere near as amazing as these though!

  55. My daughters 5th birthday, I made her a castle cake.

  56. I love to make a very special recipe of my mother’s – her cake version of ‘Gob Cakes’ or Whoopie Pies. I usually make it at Easter and Christmas. Sometimes someone will request it on their birthdays, too.

  57. My mommas birthday!

  58. Last cake was for a birthday, of course!! Next cake is going to be a topsy turvy cake for Easter!!

  59. Christmas … I know… not much celebrating with cake going on… !

  60. My Grandmother’s 80th birthday!

  61. The last time I celebrated with cake was a game night with the single ladies in my church. I just finished taking a cake decorating class, so I wanted to show off my mad skills. =0)

  62. My brothers birthday!!!!! :) but we had cupcakes… does that count? haha

  63. Wow, these are cute. Our cake stand is pretty boring (wood with a cracked plastic dome). I’d love to surprise my mom with one of these. It was a bit difficult to think of the last time I celebrated with cake… but it was for my Dad’s birthday in January. My mom and I made him a homemade german chocolate cake. It was delicious!

  64. My mom’s birthday this past weekend!

  65. My younger sister’s baby shower this month. we had cake AND cupcakes.

  66. Making a special treat this thursday for my son who is turning 11 and he asked for me to make something from this particular website again! I also make shamrock cupcakes for st pattys day for my kids!

  67. We celebrated my great-nephew’s 2nd birthday with a Mickey Mouse cake I made on March 11th. And I’m attending a double shower (kitchen themed) for a dear friend’s sons this weekend. You guessed it, they’re both getting a copy of your cookbook for a wedding gift!!

  68. my cousin’s bday in Jan. looks like i’m long overdue for another slice (or two) of cake!!!!

  69. I celebrated my daughter’s birthday last week, but honestly, I want one of the stands so I can use them for my teas! I have one coming up this Sunday!

  70. Those are adorable. I had cake at my sister’s baby shower!

  71. I’m actually celebrating with cake today! It’s my 23rd birthday! :)

  72. I had cake yesterday, for my birthday! :)

  73. What lovely stands for cakes! My mom loves these types of stands!

  74. I made a cake last week. Just for fun!

  75. Hubby got a Rum cake 2 weeks ago…just celebrating our love :)

  76. The last time we celebrated with cake was last night @ 10:00, when I took the cake out of the oven. My husband loves to have his favorite pound cake available at all times…..He had been without cake for about 3 days !

  77. The last time I celebrated with cake was on my birthday!

  78. I just surprised my mom for her birthday and brought her cupcakes!

  79. Valentines Day, I made chocolate cake and decorated with chocolate teddy bears and hearts Peeps

  80. My DH’s birthday was last week.

  81. We just celebrated our precious baby boy’s first birthday!

  82. We celebrated my son’s first birthday on March 5th with a cake made by our sweet friend Erica.

  83. My son’s boy scout dinner! I LOVE cake!!

  84. March 8…bday cake for my son’s bday…also Fat Tuesday…and no cake since then since we all gave up desserts for Lent. Pardon me while I wipe up the drool on my keyboard…Thanks for the chance to win such Gorgeous stands!

  85. My daughter’s birthday in January. That was MUCH too long ago for cake!

  86. One of my best friends got engaged a couple weeks ago. I made a spice cake recipe out of whatever I had around my apartment (I combined a hummingbird cake recipe with a few others).

  87. OH MY GOSH! I AM OFFICIALLY OBSESSED WITH THESE! SO PRETTY!! The last cake I made was a pretty pink cake with my very first fondant roses, for Valentine’s day!!

  88. We celebrated my mom’s birthday 2 weeks ago and I made her a yummy chocolate cake from a weight watchers recipe because she had just signed up!

  89. We have birthdays in January and December and of course cakes for every birthday for three weeks in a row. I really need a new pedestal and I love the bell cover . All the cakes are beautiful and I bet they’re delicious too,

  90. I made cake pops…just because you can never have enough cake pops. maybe I will make some tonight!

  91. These cake plates and dome are beautiful. I was at a wedding Saturday and am eating left over cake today.

  92. Wait you mean you need an occasion to celebrate with cake?

    Well in that case it would be my son’s birthday this past November. I hope I win. :)

  93. I made a cake for my friend’s birthday last month! It was vanilla/vanilla, his favorite :)

  94. The last time I had cake was just a few days ago, for my company’s anniversary celebration. We had Sprinkles cupcakes and they were very good…although I’d much rather make them myself!

  95. A coworkers birthday two weeks ago!

  96. My daughter is almost 2 and can’t make a shopping trip without numerous tantrums. So we celebrated her being able to go through Target without a single tantrum by making cupcakes.

  97. My last cake celebration was my birthday back in December; it’s time for some more cake!

  98. Our last cake celebration was a celebration for the cake itself! My 12 year old daughter really wanted to try her hand at baking and decorating a cake with fondant, so we gathered the supplies and I let her go crazy in the kitchen. The cake turned out beautifully and was delicious as well!

  99. I last celebrated with cake on my wedding day two weeks ago! It was a 4-tier, Tiffany blue cake with alternating layers of red velvet and lemon cake. And I’m still eating the leftovers!

  100. My husbands bithday in November :)

  101. My husbands birthday earlier in March!! And our annviversary, both on the same day! These stands are adorable!!!!

  102. Do you really need an occassion to eat cake?

    I was out with some friends for supper the other night and the restaurant we were at (Calories in Saskatoon, SK) has the most delicious cakes! We couldn’t help but order two pieces – a lemon curd torte and a chocolate orange torte – to share! So delicious.

    Cake should be on the breakfast menu.

  103. Probably my sister in-laws birthday last month. I made Pioneer Woman’s sheet cake a couple of weeks ago… I had a craving for cake. It was sooooo goooood!!

  104. This past saturday. Chocolate wtih ganache between the layers and whipped cream for frosting. delish!

  105. My daughter’s 3rd birthday party! darling pedestals by the way!

  106. My good friends 2 months smoke free anniversary

  107. We celebrated family being in town this past Sunday with a lemon cornmeal breakfast cake after our brunch.

  108. I made (and ate) cake for a recognition dinner just this past Sunday!

  109. Nephew’s 5th Birthday last Saturday!

  110. My grandmother’s 85th & mother’s 68th combined birthdays in January. You can never have enough cake!

  111. my niece’s bday, I made her a cake that looked like her puppy!

  112. I baked a cake for my niece a couple weeks ago.

    But after seeing those pictures, I think I’m going to get some cake right now! :D

  113. My hubby’s birthday last weekend – chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting, on my MIL’s cake stand!

  114. Love the pedestals and especially the look of the bell jars! I prefer bite sized treats but we always seem to have a cake for every birthday that comes along in our family. Happy slaves to tradition I suppose :) The last one was my niece’s birthday, and included the most decadent death-by-chocolate cake. Still makes my teeth ache to think about it.

    Hope you’re doing well – I don’t comment often but I follow faithfully and keep my fingers crossed for you.

  115. my moms birthday cake….. love her so much…

  116. WOW!!! What a nice and beautiful gesture. The last cake I bake for my son’s Godmother’s B-Day was a chocolate roulade fill with nutella and vanilla ice cream topped with a sweet cajeta sauce and toasted hazelnuts. YUUUMMMM.
    And before for my son’s Big day we created a mountain cake with donuts. It was so great.

  117. We made a lightsaber cake for my son’s 7th birthday 2 weeks ago. :)

  118. Those are the cutest things ever!!!! The last time I had cake was a birthday party for a 3 year old!!

  119. I’m now the cake baker in the family. So at every party i have to bring cake. I made a St. Patricks day cake.

  120. It’s been a while… I think it was the last time someone retired at work – maybe a couple months ago? Yikes! I need to get baking!!

  121. It was my 18th birthday on Sunday! My sister made a GIANT chocolate cake… I literally ate myself into a chocolate coma.. Best birthday ever!

  122. My son’s 1st birthday, last weekend! What a celebration! :)

  123. The last cake I made was a green one for St patrick’s day. :)

  124. Gosh its been a while :(…. a friends birthday in January!

  125. My brother’s 21st birthday in January! Those photos are beautiful! I love your website :)

  126. My birthday on the 21st of March. Yummy chocolate mayonaise!!

  127. The last occasion? Ah, I crashed a lunch at work and had some delightful coconut cake.

  128. the last event with cake was at my baby shower in october! now my little twin girls are almost 4 months old! crazy!

  129. Love this!!! And I love cake…celebrated my niece’s 12th birthday last Saturday with a huge owl cake!!

  130. My mother-in-law’s retirement this past weekend. I made an awesome cake!

  131. my mom coming to visit me!

  132. GORGEOUS stands!!! Not to mention all the beautiful and absolutely delicious looking sweets.

  133. Those pedestals are so beautiful!!!! We had our version of March Madness (birthday bashers) party on the 19th. We have so many March birthdays in our immediate family that we would be celebrating the entire month so we now have to cut it down to one party. It was a great time. Lots of cake!!!

  134. We had an ice cream cookie cake this weekend celebrating my Grandmas Birthday :)

  135. Do you really need an occasion to eat cake!? We had a 2 layer chocolate one a week back for family time just to celebrate being a family!

  136. We had cake for dessert last night, just because!

  137. We celebrated our grandson’s 6th birthday in the afternoon, then had cake for dessert at a friend’s home in the evening! Just a bite or two of each, but…YUM!

  138. I had a cupcake on Valentines day :)

  139. Our last cake celebration was my little girl’s 4th birthday. She had a frog cake with frog cupcakes. Her bday theme was Princess and the Frog of course. :) Thanks for the giveaway!

  140. Just this weekend at my 1 yr wedding anniversary! =)

  141. My mother-in-law’s third wedding two weeks ago.

  142. We just celebrated a team softball party lastweek. I love placing any kind of cake and treats on the pedestals, it makes the treats look twice as yummy, and everyone thinks you spent tons of time on them… :)

  143. Celebrated that it was friday with a manhattan style cheesecake

  144. We celebrated my son’s 1st birthday a couple of weeks ago with a Mickey Mouse themed party and a cake in the shape of Mickey’s face!!!

  145. Just celebrated my husbands 31st birthday with a lemon cake.

  146. The last time we celebrate with delicious chocolate cake was last Thursday for our Associate Appreciation day! It was oh so delish and I had some for breakfast yesterday!

  147. Just yesterday!!

  148. My twin sons’ birthday in January!

  149. My daughter and I both celebrated our birthday’s last week (we share our special day!). I could have definitely used a pedestal or two. Maybe next year?

  150. We celebrated my birthday in February.

  151. My birthday on Sunday!

  152. Just had cake last night for my daughters 7th birthday! Yum!

  153. We celebrated this past Sunday for my daughter’s 16th birthday with cheesecake with strawberry sauce. Yummy!

  154. No “special occasion” Just another pretty day in the country a couple of weeks ago.

  155. I made a cake for my birthday. Which sounds pitiful, except I really knew what I wanted!! :)

  156. monday night :) just because

  157. On Sat. at my brothers 50th birthday party

  158. I celebrated moving back from San Francisco to Los Angeles by baking a mini cake with my mini cake pans…all the while packing our lives back into boxes. Yes, the cake pan was one of the last things to be packed :)

    -sophi

  159. Last month… celebrating a new baby in the family!!

  160. My sister just turned 30 and we celebrated with two cakes : )

  161. The last occasion I celebrated with cake? Surviving making cake pops! for the next occasion, my baby girl’s 1st birthday party on Saturday. :)

  162. My husband’s birthday. Dare I say a storebought, mass produced, frozen layer cake in a box for $2.99. :)

  163. these are so so cute!!..my baby boy’s b’day in Jan…

  164. My birthday, just a few days ago.

  165. My Mom just made the best strawberry cake last Sunday for a family dinner. I am still thinking about it :) Yummy!!!!

  166. My Daughter and I spent last Saturday night home together and treated ourselves to cake just because!

  167. The last occasion I celebrated with cake was my godson’s baptism! (I also made cake pop’s because I am addicted thanks to your blog and fantastic inspirations!) :)

  168. The last cake I had was at a baby shower a week ago!!

  169. Friday night we celebrated my mother-in-law’s birthday with a chocolate frosted chocolate cake.

  170. My mom’s 50th birthday where I attempted my first 2 tier cake covered in fondant..a bit lopsided but good enough for a first try if I say so myself :)

  171. At our house the last celebration was New Years, but I had cake in the office for a co-worker’s birthday more recently.

  172. My little girls birthday. Actually used fondant for the first time. Yum! Thanks for the giveaway.

  173. We last had red velvet cake for my husband’s birthday earlier this month!

  174. Because it was Saturday !!

  175. We celebrate birthdays once a month @ work. This month there was a tiramisu cake and it was delicious!

  176. My son’s 8th birthday. It was a blast! !
    thanks
    Mary

  177. We celebrated my grandma’s birthday last weekend with spice cake!

  178. We had cake to celebrate my grandmothers bday!

  179. I baked a cake a few weeks ago for a dinner party.

  180. My mom’s birthday last weekend! Chocolate cake with strawberry filling and buttercreme frosting! Yum

  181. Last weekend! I made a cake last weekend if only to celebrate the fact that for ONCE we had nowhere to be and I had time to bake. No playdates, no sports practices, no traveling, just a day at home in the kitchen. It was pure bliss, which necessitated chocolate cake, of course!

  182. St. Patrick’s Day! I made a green velvet cake with cream cheese icing.. inspired by you :)

  183. Sunday, March 27th for my grandmother’s 89th birthday!

  184. Let’s see, the last occasion I celebrated with cake was…..last weekend…and for no other reason than ‘hey, it’s saturday!’ :)

  185. We just made a cake yesterday just to eat and enjoy with all the family in town for a recent wedding.

  186. My kids had 3 birthday parties this past weekend!! :)

  187. We celebrated my brother-in-law’s 29th birthday with a great chocolate raspberry cake with buttercream frosting– delishhh!

  188. We celebrated my mom’s birthday with a Tres Leches cake, but that was in November. I need a cake occasion pronto!

  189. My 29th birthday was last Wednesday!

  190. I baked a chocolate cake and we took it to dinner out, just this past Saturday night. It was heaven on a fork!

  191. We celebrated my sister-in-law and nephew’s birthdays on Sunday. We had brownies and cheesecake! Fat free cheesecake! And it tasted like the real deal with all the fat. That’s the best part.

  192. Just beautiful and inspiring!!! A few weeks ago I enjoyed a cake pop with my hubby on our special trip to Oahu, Hawaii!!!

  193. The last occasion I celebrated with a cake was at Christmas but in a few days I will be celebrating with a cake for my birthday. Yum.

  194. We had a plain ol’ white bakery cake with buttercream frosting for my son’s 3rd birthday on Friday the 18th. Yum! Cake is good.

  195. Made an angel food cake with a bittersweet ganache for my dad’s birthday last week.

  196. last occasion was match day!

    i’m a future physician and we got the results of where we would be completing our residencies!

  197. The last cake I made was for my neices birthday. She turned 2 and so I made a minnie mouse cake that turned out better than I expected. She loved it and so did everyone else. the cakes above look so yummy and the stands are so cute!

  198. birthday party! cookie cake!

  199. We celebrated with a (big) cake at the birthday party of 2 friends from church! They are 15 years apart, so the invite said “celebrating 15 years of separation!”

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