BABY SHOWER CUP CAKES

Can you stand another cute baby shower idea? Here we go. CUPCAKES. ADORABLE.

You will need baby “onesies”, some baby wash clothes, baby socks, cupcake liners, a cupcake box and any decorative items you may like.

Take a onesie and fold in the arms

Fold the onesie in half lengthwise.

Roll up a baby sock to make the center of the cupcake. If this was a bright pink sock it would look like a cherry on top. Be creative with your colors.

Place the rolled sock on a facecloth that is folded into thirds. You should keep the closed folded edge up unlike what I am showing you in the photo below.

Now roll the washcloth inside the onesie. Pull it pretty tight and adjust the edges to look nice.Tie a little ribbon around it to hold it in place.

I found these beautiful cupcake liners at Michael’s. If I were displaying these on a tray I would have left them that way but since I was putting them into a cupcake box I flipped them inside out so that the sunflower showed.

I put some yellow shred paper in the bottom  of the cupcake box and placed in the cupcakes.

I think they turned out just great.

This diaper cake was done in yellow since we don’t know the baby’s sex. If you missed the instruction posts for the diaper cakes you can see them by clicking here and here and here along with the diaper motorcycle instructions.

My house is looking like a bakery but it is all calorie free.

DIAPER MOTORCYCLE TUTORIALS AND A NEW CAKE

This past weekend I was lucky to attend a baby shower for my soon to be great-great nephew!!!! That makes me the equivalent of a great-grandparent.

Next weekend I get to attend another one for another great-great baby to come. That one’s gender is a surprise so the cake is more generic in color.

I have made the cakes before and you can see my tutorials here and here.

This time I tried a new project. A diaper motorcycle. Too cute of course and super easy to make.

Here is what you will need:

34 diapers (17 for each tire)
A couple large rubber bands
2 bibs (or onesies)
2 receiving blankets
1 pair of mittens or socks
1 baby bottle
1 washcloth
1 chain link baby toy
ribbon in your choice of pattern/color
1 stuffed animal of your choice no bigger than 20 inches

Start with a container of some sort to help hold the diapers. A bowl, a low pan, hunt through your kitchen.

 Take half the diapers and spread them into a circle inside the container. Play with them to space them out evenly. Don’t fuss too much just yet.

Put a rubber band around the diapers or tie them with some string quite tightly. Now fuss with them some more to space them out evenly.

Make a second tire and keep the diapers facing the same way.

Take some ribbon and wrap it around the centre of the tires. I staple mine nice and tight. No one will see the staples if you make that the bottom of the tires.

Now you take one of the receiving blankets and fold it in half, long edge to long edge. Roll the blanket up starting with the open edge so you end up with a long tube.

You can tack the ends together with a few stitches if you like.

Place the rolled up blanket through the front tire and then through the back tire where you will crisscross it tightly. 

Remember to keep any staples in your ribbon at the bottom of the tires.

I overlapped my blanket and tucked the ends back inside the wheel.

Again a few stitches will hold it together but make sure not to puncture the diapers or you may be the one holding baby on that leaky day.

Roll up the second receiving blanket the same as the first and pull it through the front wheel even on both sides. This will make the handlebars.

If you are using bibs lay one over the wheel like a fender. If using a onesie then fold the arms in and tuck it down between the wheels.

Wrap the baby bottle with a washcloth and lay this over the front “fender”. This is now the headlight.

Pull up the second receiving blanket over the headlight and slide a chain toy down over the ends of the receiving blanket and tighten it right down to the headlight.

You can tuck some cardboard into the ends of the handlebars for stability before you tuck them into the socks or mittens.

You can see that the stuffie’s arms weigh down the handlebars so you should probably not lean them on the bars.

You can find the link for the instructions for the cake at the top of this post.

IT'S A GIRL - DIAPER CAKE

One of my nieces is having a baby girl in May. I am going to her baby shower in April and am bringing a diaper cake. This time knowing it is a girl I opted for the pink. You can see the last one I made here along with more complete instructions. 

 I collected some decorative items. Note the Scotch brand double sided tape. That is going back to the store. I tried for half an hour to separate the plastic covering from the sticky with no luck. What good is that. $6.00 and it is going right back. 

Collect some pretty ribbons and some silk flowers.

Find a big container to build around. Last time I used a peanut butter jar but I was out so this time I used my brown sugar container. It doesn't matter as this is a temporary item.

I put this on a large round aluminum tray normally used for veggie platters or something. They are light weight and work perfectly. Line up about 48 diapers around the container. Don't fuss, that comes later. 

Tie it tightly with string, (use your son's finger to hold the string while you tie the knot. Don't have a son? I'll send mine.) remove the container and roll up about 8 diapers to fill the hole tightly. Now you can fuss with the placement. Make them nice and even.

Take some tulle and a needle and thread and run a stitch along the top edge gently sliding the tulle down the length of thread to make like a ballerina skirt. The tulle look very pink on the roll but loses most of its color when you have a single layer of it. I would go the darker hot pink shade to get a more visible skirt. When you have enough of it done so it will hang out over the top of this cake layer secure the ends together and fan out the skirt. 

Wrap some of your pretty ribbon around the string so you can't see it and secure it to itself with some double sided tape. Don't stick anything to the diapers themselves or you will ruin them. 

Make the next layer the same way but use a smaller container for the center and use about 28 diapers this time and then fill in the center with 4 or 5 rolled diapers. 

It helps to have lots of cans around to guide the diapers into a circle. 
Remember not to fuss as you will tweek it once it is tied securely. 

 Put this layer on top and stick a wooden chopstick down the center to help keep them together. Don't poke any holes or you will have leaky diapers and it may be you holding the baby that day. 
Make another ballerina skirt with the tulle and put it between the second and third layers. 

 Top this with a third layer made from 14 diapers with 2 or 3 more in the center. One more chopstick through the middle. I topped this with a big pink bow. It had long white ribbon ties for wrapping it around a gift so I pulled them down through the middle and out between the first and second layers and then curled the ribbon with some scissors. 

Add in some silk flowers gently placing them between the layers. 

Continue to adjust so that the cake layers are not uneven. 

If you want a bit more detail click here for my 1st. diaper cake tutorial.