What is a diaper cake?

The tradition of diaper cake comes straight from the United States. This diaper cake (in VF) is usually offered to the future mom during the baby shower. Visually, the diaper cake should resemble a mounted part. But, contrary to appearances and what the name indicates, it is not a cake. It is actually a stack of layers and small presents for the future mother. If the most basic option consists only of layers, you can also incorporate the essentials of birth such as body, bibs, bonnets, baby bottles ... but also small presents that will always delight, like doudous or toys.

Of all sizes and colors

For a successful diaper cake, we make sure to adapt the diaper cake to the desires of the mom. If you want to play security, it is better to adapt the theme of the gift to the one chosen for the baby shower (pink, circus, Disney etc). The cakes of layers princesses and princes are the great classics but why not dare the theme savannah or sea? The good point of these cakes? They change a bit of traditional pink and blue baby and are suitable for a little girl as well as a little boy! Traditionally shaped as a mounted piece, the diaper cake can also be declined: shaped pink car, balloon ... Sympathetic not? And if we do not have enough room on the cake to put all our little gifts, we use a nice box as a base ... and the turn is played!

It is easy to do ?

Easy as pie ! On the internet, there are many tutorials to make a diaper cake itself, and the DIY enthusiasts are delighted! We recycle its rolls of toilet paper or sopalin to make the base, we roll the layers that are attached with nice ribbons, scraps of fabrics or others, we arrange the accessories and finish the decoration!

Find in our diaporama 16 diaper cake ideas spotted on Pinterest.