Some Great tips for Making Your first Diaper Cake

Fill the diaper cake with all of the thing's an expectant mother would want to have such as Vaseline, baby lotions, talcum powder, towels,
rattles, baby toys.

Use the best quality diapers you can find as this will make a far better cake. For instance if you use seven eight and ten size this will give you an eight inch cake and bigger ones will give you a ten inch cake.

Make sure that you use cardboard on your first bottom layer and then secure it with some tape this will hold all the diapers together and make them a stronger structure this process is similar in making a edible cake, which have decorated paper around the cake.

to make it look more attractive. Also you could put a ribbon around the bottom or a piece and secure that with tape and what would finish it off are some self-adhesive ribbon bows the ones that you use to stick to presents.

A good idea is to go with a theme for instance nice pink colours for girls or nice blue colours for boys, were you could use cartoon characters like Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse just use your imagination and go mad.

And lastly have fun because that's the whole point of building the cake just imagine what the person whom is receiving it will feel like when they get to see your own personal creation.

How to Make a Diaper Cake

A diaper cake is a great gift that anyone who has had their firstborn child and even though the title implies it is not as bad as it sounds a diaper cake is a cake made from diapers that can wrapped in shiny cake effect paper.

And if you actually saw one yourself you might think it might be quite hard to make one yourself because of how good they do look, most diaper cakes have three parts or tiers to them similar to how a wedding cake looks if you can picture that in your mind.

Starting with the first tier of the cake this will be made up of roundabout thirty two to forty five diapers, in the middle section of the diaper cake you need roughly between ten to fifteen diapers or you could add a few more if you wish it's all up to personal preference at the end of the day.


When you're putting the cake together you could secure them together with some tape or alternatively, use some safety pins instead make a round piece at the bottom to start your very first layer of your cake put some put some thin cardboard around your diapers and secure this with some tape.

In fact a lot of cakes that you buy in shops do have a piece of thin cardboard around them so if you think of it in that respect than you're good to go, so now you have your very first layer of your cake, when you're doing the next layer just use less diapers say for instance five or six.

Do the same with this layer is well as per instructions as before, the very last layer of your diaper cake will have things like rattles, bottles of baby lotion and anything that would relate to a firstborn child a small teddy bear anything you can think of really just let your imagination run wild.

When you have everything assembled then you will need some shiny decorative paper think about the sort that Christmas cakes have around the side most diaper cakes, have shiny glossy paper around the cardboard so it really does look like a real cake from a distance.


As you can probably see now it's not that difficult to make your own diaper cake so why not have a go yourself and give it to somebody who is having their firstborn child.

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