One of my favorite places for all things baking, FancyFlours is having a 25% off Halloween Sale! Your order has to be placed by October 20th, so jump on over and get everything you need for your Halloween goodies!
To celebrate the first week of October, Confectionary House is offering 15% off orders of $100 or more! Just use coupon code 15PERCENT at checkout. Hurry up and take advantage though - the code expires October 11th!
Fancy Flours, one of my fave websites for buying fun baking stuff, shows us how to make to make this great display. I've copied and pasted the instructions for you below! If you do make it this weekend, be sure to send a picture! You will need: 1 large styrofoam cone (at a local craft store) and around 24 3-6″ wooden dowels, plus several toothpicks for the fruit. 5 cups fresh fruit (red strawberries, raspberries and blueberries preferred) Cupcakes can be baked and frosted as usual, however a more dense cupcake batter will work better for attaching to the tower. Try using a pound cake, chocolate cake or carrot cake for best results. Lightly frost with buttercream or cream cheese frosting using a star tip. The heavier the frosting, the more likely it will not stay connected to the tower as it will be side heavy. Affix cupcakes to tower by first sticking the wooden dowels firmly into the styrofoam tower. Place them evenly apart, making sure to be able to affix fruit in between each cupcake. Attach cupcakes to wooden dowels by pushing cupcake onto dowel (you may need to cut a small hole in the bottom of the cupcake wrapper (or don’t use any wrappers to avoid this step). Now poke each strawberry, blueberry or other piece of fruit with a toothpick and push toothpick into styrofoam, in between each cupcake. You can make fruit kabobs as well and place a few pieces of fruit onto each toothpick. Make sure to completely fill up styrofoam tower so there is no syrofoam showing. Add sprigs of fresh mint to complete the look.
If you feel like picking some up, Fancy Flours carries them in Blue, Brown, Green, Pink, Red, White and Yellow. They come in sets of 40 to 45 and sell for $5.50 a set. 
Another cupcake liner I think is pretty cool looking is the Fluted Brioche Baking Liner. These high quality cups are made of grease-proof paper and are sturdy enough to bake without using a pan. They come in a package of 50, and a package sells for $5. 
