Diaper Cakes

A friend of mine was having her first baby and she didn’t really want a baby shower. But after asking her nicely a few times she finally agreed for me to organize her one. I figured seeing as I have never organized a baby shower before I would first talk to all the new mothers I know to ask what they liked or didn’t like about their own baby showers. One of my friends suggested I make a diaper cake. When she said this I was slightly grossed out! When I think of diapers I think of number 2’s and when I think of cake I think of nice gooey chocolate icing. Now put these two thoughts in one image and you will see where I was at!! Needless to say I googled (when in doubt) it and I was pleasantly surprised.

It is a much nicer way in which to give the mommy to be some diapers. When you start making the cake it is quite hard because you can’t do anything to the diapers themselves seeing as they become useless once damaged. You also don’t want to make the cake too far in advance seeing as diapers are very absorbent and will absorb flavours if they are out of the packaging for too long.

The first thing you need is a solid base on which to mount the cake. I used a circular cake board that you can purchase at any baking supplies shop. Seeing as you can’t glue the diapers to the board itself you will need another way in which to secure the cake onto the board. This is where the core of the cake comes into play. Try finding as tall a bottle as possible. Make sure it is 100% clean and dry. The more tiers you want the cake to have the longer the bottle needs to be. My cakes generally have three tiers. You can glue the bottle to the board and build the cake around it, which will secure the cake. In order to extend the core, I cut off the top of a bottle and turned it upside down on the first bottle and glued these two together. If you can find a bottle long enough to reach to the third tier you wont have to make use of two bottles.

You can decorate the cake with whatever you want. It is nice to have different coloured and sized ribbons to wrap around the layers. I used a soft toy as the “cherry” on top of the cake and some baby products around the base of the cake. As you can see from the picture I also glued the baby’s new surname onto the cake. This present makes a nice centre piece for the presents or treats table. Please feel free to contact me if you get stuck while making your diaper cake or if you would like one made for you. Enjoy!! :-)

Yours in fun & diaper cakes,

Elly D