Never under estimate the power of a display.  I purchased this cupcake tower at Michaels and have used it an a couple of my bake sales.  It catches the eye and the cupcake don’t last very long.  You can dress up plain cupcakes with just some fun picks.  For this one I purchased some picks that had high heels, purses and lips from the Orange County Novelty Company.  They are one the net or if you live in southern California they are located in Costa Mesa.  The get the two tone effect, paint a stripe of gel food coloring in your piping bag and add white icing.