If you are not in for using cake boards, other options would be to place your cakes on pretty disposable plates, ceramic plates, or directly on cake stands. You can also use the base of your loose bottom cake tins as the cake board (provided you don't give the cake away to someone with the base tin). Or if you do not want to wrap your cake boards, you can decorate them instead. See my post on how to decorate your cake boards for some creative ideas.