How to Make a Diaper Cake – Instructions with Video
This is the final post in our three part series about how to make a diaper cake. In the previous two posts, we talked about the ingredients needed, as well as gave step by step instructions, for making an adorable cake that could be used as a baby shower centerpiece.
In this, our third and final installment in the series, we are providing a video showing you the process of building a cake. After the video, we discuss some variations, because no two diaper cakes are the same!
Here's our favorite video showing how to make a diaper cake. Thanks to Nisha at Creative Baby Shower Ideas for sharing this video.
Now, let's discuss variations. You may have noticed that Nisha did not make her cake exactly as we described in our previous instructions. Most noticeably, instead of using a dowel, she used baby bottles to secure the center of her cake and to build the tiers.
This is just one of many variations. Some people have a difficult time tracking down clear colored rubbered bands. If all you can find are the colored ones, go ahead and use them. After building the final layer around tiers, you can remove the rubber bands, tying around a thin coordinating ribbon around each diaper as you do, to secure it.
If removing and replacing rubber bands sounds like too much trouble, keep the rubber bands in place. To hide them, wrap a receiving blanket around each cake layer, and then add your wide ribbon to secure the blanket. This way the rubber bands are hidden by the blanket.
Some people also use itty bitty pieces of tape instead of rubber bands. If you do this, just make sure the diaper can still be used once the cake is dismantled.
You can also make them without even rolling up the diapers. We found a wonderful video tutorial on another website showing how to make a diaper cake using flat diapers instead of rolled ones.
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