How to Make a Diaper Cake

12 Materials
$45
1 Hour
Easy
One of my most favourite baby shower gifts was a beautifully handmade diaper cake from my husband’s aunt. Not only was it practical – a mama can never have too many diapers! My method doesn’t involve any diaper rolling, and I’ve added a unique topper that I think takes this gift to an adorable level.
To begin, start fanning the Pampers along the perimeter of one of the cake pans as shown above. I spaced mine about 2″ apart to create a ruffled effect.
Continue until you’ve circled around the entire perimeter of the cake pan and then tuck the final diaper behind the first one.
Then, add another layer of diapers inside the first row in the same way. Continue adding layers inside the pan until you have nothing but a small circle of space left in the center.
Next, insert the recycled wrapping paper tube into the center of your layers and cut the top of it off so that it’s about 3 times as high as your first “cake” layer. Take an elastic band and carefully wrap it around this layer to hold everything together.
Remove it from the pan and set this first diaper cake layer aside, and then make two more layers for your diaper cake using this method with the remaining two sizes of cake pans.


Once you’ve made all three layers, set the largest layer down and place the wrapping paper roll in its center. Then, use the roll as an anchor and place your middle sized layer and then your smallest layer on top of the bottom diaper cake layer. Your diaper cake base is complete, and now comes the fun part – decorating!


Come pop on over to my blog and see how I decorated this diaper cake with step by step directions.




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