Instructions on how to Make a Diaper Cake
Written by Mr.Jongruk on 3:01 AMBy Sophia Ton
The diaper cake is now one of the most popular centerpieces at any baby shower party. As it is the cake at a baby shower party is a lot of fun to make, decorate, see and eat. However, the diaper cake, despite its name is not an edible cake. Among the edible cakes that are usually served at these types of parties are fruit cakes, ice cakes, and white cake and so on.
How to Make a Diaper Cake?
The diaper cake despite the common belief is not too difficult to make. Information about how to make a diaper cake is available from library books, special baby shower theme cooking books, internet, and so on. Usually, the cake is three tiered but you could decide on whatever size you like to have it, depending on the size of the party and your patience and expertise.
The basic idea is to make a cake-like form out of diapers. As you will find out from the various sources, and the how to make a diaper cake books/ sources, this cake is meant to be a little treasure for the little baby who is due. The lower tier and the largest one would be made of approximately of 30 � 50 diapers, the second one of 15-25, and the top most would be made 5-6 diapers.
The diapers should be put together with the help of baby safety pins and/or tape. Ensure that the bottom layer is secured well in the form of a cylinder. Once the layer is well formed, you could put a cardboard on top of it, or a baby blanket, or if you want to have something big in the centre, you can leave it hollow and attach the rest of the tiers with safety pins or tape. Do not use glue or staples because it will be difficult and messy to disentangle it later.
The second layer would have to be fashioned the same way as the third layer. For the top layer you will want to keep all special baby items, such as rattlers, ribbons, little booties, pacifiers, and even bottles. For the cake which has the centre empty, you could keep a big teddy there, or any other big thing that would be useful to the baby.
Many how to make a diaper cake sources, advice that you should use disposable diapers instead of ordinary cotton ones. In this case you could even use glue, and then throw away the diapers instead of struggling to disentangle them.
It is not difficult to learn how to make a diaper cake and the fun that it involves adds to the joy of the experience.
Sophia Ton is a freelance writer who writes about baby shower gifts, maternity, pregnancy and family related topics. She loves to shop for pregnancy items and she loves baby shower diaper cakes.
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