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Sara's baby shower

Created this beautiful diaper cake myself  for my friend Sara that everyone loved so i thought i would let you know how to make it.

Diaper Cake-two-tier

Step one:

Purchase the items

You will need:
-2 fleece blankets(pick the color for your appropriate shower theme event)
-36 new -born diapers(60 diapers depending on how many tiers you want to create)
-2-4 thin elastic bands(did not use hot glue as the mum to be can use the nappies and blankets)
-baby items(toys, baby dummy, baby bottles etc)
-ribbons(choose beautiful ribbons for decor)
-a cardboard or plastic or glass cake platter- to put the diaper cake on.
-decorations(your choise: silk flowers, stuffed animal toys,baby towels,face washes,dummies etc)

Step 2:

For the first tier, you will need about 26 newborn nappies(diapers).
Start by unfolding the first nappy and then roll it up tight, starting from the front of the nappy to the back. The tighter the better.
Place a rubber band around the centre after you roll each diaper up to hold it up right. These are the inner diapers for the cake.

Take the cake platter and place the baby bottle or large bottle of baby lotion in the centre. Then place about 5-6 nappies around the bottle and put a rubberband around the entire ring of diapers.
Next, form a 2nd ring with the 10 remaining nappies by placing them around the 1st ring of nappies. Complete it by placing a large rubber band around the ring.

Now for the final ring of nappies for the 1st tier: take the next 14 nappies, unfold eack one and roll them tight, like before, but instead of a rubber band around tie a thin1/4 inch piece of ribbon around the middle aroumd each one. Then place them around the second ring to form a 3rd ring. Now take a large wide ribbon and tie it around the entire tier to hold them all together in a circle shape.

Step 3

The second tier is made much the same way, only instead of three rings, you only make 2 rings of nappies.Just like the first tier, the inside ring will need about 5-6 nappies. Part of the baby bottle will be sticking out of the 1st tier so place your 5-6 nappies around it to form the first ring of the 2nd tier. The second tier will need about ten nappies. Place a ribbon around each one of those 2nd ring nappies and hold them all together in a circle with the 1/2 to 1 inch wide ribbon, just like before.

You can either put blankets and baby wraps around the nappy cake tiers or leave the nappy exposed by just adding ribbon around and decorate the cake with what you desire.

And Voila!

You're done and it's a masterpiece! Your baby shower diaper cake is sure to receive plenty of oohs and aahs. Here's another look at the nappy cake I have desined. What I love about these nappy cakes is that you can add anything you wish and the mother to be is sure to use everything in it and you do not have to use the hot glue gun to stack the items together.

I have added a few books for the baby on the top tier as sara wanted books for the baby shower but you can add a stuffed toy, really, anything you like, depending on the  baby shower theme.


I have baked some lovely cupcake for Sara as well and customised the cupcake toppers myself. They looked great. Take a look:

Sara's baby will be spoilt rotten with all the beautiful presents that she had received.

with beautiful decorations: