my first diaper cake

with as many baby showers i've been to and/or hosted, it's hard to believe this is my first time making a diaper cake. probably because i'm much more interested in the kind of cake i can eat. who isn't? anyway, my sister is preggers and i'm co-hosting her shower (blog post and pics to come on that later), so i decided to man up, er, woman up and make a cute, super-absorbent, baby bottom-friendly cake.

i browsed around on pinterest and got some ideas. i also watched a few youtube videos. i saw so many different ways to do it, and my way is just a mish mash of those. 

stuff i used:

size one diapers ~ about 70-75 of them

lots of rubberbands

plastic tray from the dollar store

15oz bottle of baby powder and baby bottle for structural support (i saw a few methods that used a champagne bottle, which is brilliant)

yarn

ribbon, toys, rattle, and other embellishments

roll up your dipe-dipes and secure with a rubber band.

place your baby powder bottle in the middle and surround with dipe-dipes. tie them in place with yarn. then add and move dipes around within the yarn until you get a nice, round shape for your base.

 put the baby bottle on top of the baby powder and surround with dipes, just like the first layer. 

  

then surround the top of the baby bottle until you have your three-layer diaper cake. decorate and embellish with cutesy toys, rattles, pacifiers, etc. i even threw in a couple rolled flowers made from washcloths. awesomeness.

in less than 30 minutes - TA-DA! - you have yourself a super cute cake that the mom-to-be will love. i don't know any mom-to-be that doesn't appreciate diapers, especially in such a cutesy form. 

now go and tell your sisters and friends to have some babies so that you have someone to make a diaper cake for!