Revolving Cake Stand

Cake stands are used for serving cakes at special family gatherings like Christmas and at weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and other big parties that are catered for. A revolving cake stand is quite simply a flat plate on a low base. The base is fixed and does not move once it is placed on the table, but the plate on the top of it swivels round.

What is the reason for having a revolving cake stand? In homes on special occasions like Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas, families usually gather together for a meal. On these special occasions cake is always served and a festival like Christmas without cake is quite unimaginable. Usually full cakes are not placed on the serving plate because that will necessitate each one having to cut a piece. Instead cut pieces of cake are tastefully decorated on the plate and the plate is usually placed at one end of the buffet table.

Families normally serve up the food as a buffet, which makes it easier for everyone. As people help themselves to the cake on the plate one side of it is bound to become empty. The next person to arrive to help themselves to cake will simply rotate the plate and bring the full side to the front, making it easier for people to help themselves.

The revolving cake stand is a very simple principle, more an affectation than anything else. It is not difficult to pick up and turn around a half empty plate, but the dish itself looks very elegant and sets of a loaded buffet table quite nicely. Very often people in homes have them simply because they were given it as wedding presents or it is being handed down from mother to daughter in every generation.

The cake stand material is usually glass, porcelain, metal, crystal or some other material for the plate and the base is made from metal, alum, glass, cast iron or porcelain. Some of these cake stands are actually heirlooms and quite priceless in value.

A revolving cake stand is almost always a decorative item on a buffet table in a hotel. That is because hotels find it functional to keep refilling them by just turning it to one side and loading it up again. Of course it is very convenient for the guests as well because sometimes in hotel buffets the cake dish might not be right in the front of the dessert section.