If you're going to go to the trouble of making lovely little homemade cakes I think you may as well do it properly and serve them on pretty little floral china plates. I love collecting tea plates, especially from the 40s and 50s. They remind me of drinking tea and eating bakewell tart at my Gran's house in Sussex.
I've got some new sets of sweet little vintage plates for sale on my site cristalina.bigcartel.com