Tips for Planning a Diaper Cake for Twins

Diaper cakes are great gifts to give to an expectant mother, especially at a baby shower. They have a lot of practical stuff while providing a great item to look at and even fun in tearing it apart. They can be expensive to purchase from sites online or from stores, but with a little work, a dash of creativity, and some great ideas you will be on your way to having a great diaper cake for twins!

To make a diaper cake you will need a package of size one diapers. If you want to make an extra large cake for twins buy a bigger package. Lay the diaper down on a service and roll it up. You can then secure it with clear rubber bands, ribbon, or curling ribbon. Set your diapers aside. Take a cardboard tray, serving tray, or even a pizza pan and wrap it in wrapping paper of appropriate colors or even pretty tissue paper. Set this on your work table.

You will now need to assemble your cake. To do this you are going to stack the diapers into layers. You have to decide if you want one layer, two layers, or three layers which will look much like the tiers of a cake. To make your first layer stand your rolled diapers on their side. Slowly add diapers standing up till you have formed a small circle. Then add and additional row or two to make this layer as large as you want it to be. Tie this with a thick ribbon to hold your cake layer together.

If you want more then one layer (for a true cake look) then stack diapers on top of the first layer. Stand them up in the center, form another circle, and make it as large as you want by adding additional rows of diapers. When it is finished, secure this one with a wide ribbon as well. Add any additional layers to this piece as you see fit.

Another option is for you to create two bottom layers and then a top layer that is in the middle of both round layers. You can then decorate each side for each individual twin adding small gifts to those sides and then adding gifts for both to the center. This is especially beautiful for a twin cake when the twins are a boy and a girl.

Now that your cake is together you get to make decorating decisions. You can take small towels or receiving blankets and frost the cake by wrapping them around the layers and securing them with pins or ribbons. This will make a smooth cake instead of the rippled version that leaving the plain diapers presents. Either option is acceptable and purely up to you to make that decision.

Once you have your general cake looking in a way that pleases you the fun begins. You can use all sorts of items to decorate your cake including booties, socks, wash clothes, wash clothes or socks made into other decorations, pacifiers, small toys and or rattles, stuffed animals and or dolls, and other small items. Have fun with it and come up with as many different ideas as possible. One great option is to have one of each in similar but different colors for twins. If you are making a diaper cake for twin boys for example then you could add a pair of blue and a pair of green booties to the cake. You could also add two bears one with a red ribbon and one with a blue ribbon.

Decorating the cake gives you a lot of different options and this is the part that really asks for your creativity. To make it very creative you can learn to make roses from socks or wash clothes, and even bunnies or lolipops from wash clothes. Just check out this article Creative Baby Shower Gifts for more detailed instructions on how to do just that.

Once your cake is complete and looking great you can wrap it in cellophane or plastic wrap to help protect it on the way to the shower. At the shower you can either let the bride remove the wrap for a surprise or you can proudly display your beautiful gift of the gift table. Either way it will be fun for the guests, the mom to be, and of course it will offer a lot to the baby as well!