I have been a self taught cake maker for over 13 years and have made thousands of cakes and over 700 wedding cakes. Over the years I have come to realise that the best way to display any cake is with the use of stand and it has become quite an obsession of mine, I have quite a collection and hire them out all the time.

A few years back I received an order for large wedding cake and they requested to have their cake sat on a large bed of silk flowers . The only way I could think about how to do this was to purchase a large round polystyrene dummy and stick flowers round it. Initially I pushed the flowers in with the stems, but they kept coming out, so I spent hours gluing them on…