Whether you’re a top-class pastry chef or not, now at least you can boast about making the cake stand yourself! If you can bake a cake as well, it’s a bonus. This is a quick and easy do-it-yourself project. And please send us photos of your end product!

You will need:

• 3 old plates – a dinner plate, a side plate and a saucer
• 2 small glasses (e.g. sherry glasses), one a little bigger than the other
• colourless glue
• spray paint

Follow these steps:

1. Make sure that the plates are clean and dry. Use a ruler or measuring tape to find the centre of each plate – mark it with a pencil or pen.
2. Apply glue to the upper rim of the bigger glass. Glue the glass to the middle of the biggest plate (on the side the food would be placed).
3. Now apply some glue to the bottom of the glass (which would now be pointing upwards) and glue it to the bottom of the side plate.
4. Turn the saucer upside down on the work surface. Glue the smaller glass’ upper rim to the bottom of the saucer.
5. Now glue the small glass’ “bottom” to the middle of the side plate.
6. If your plates don’t have pretty motifs, use the spray paint to paint the whole cake stand the same colour. A matt silver or even an extravagant colour like bright pink might work.

Please note: Let the glue dry completely before using the cake stand.

Photo: Richard Burns