Pirate Cake

Chocolate cake in specialty cake pan, buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting

Techniques Used- star, C border,

Focus-the ENTIRE ship!

Boards on ship

making the cake plate with tinfoil and tracing cake pan

C border

Dark Chocolate pirate flag

using a specialty pan

cake was small, but lots of time spent decorating this cake

all the layers!

Cake pan site

This cake was decorated August 2012.

Train Diaper Cake

diapers (size 1), string, cake mix box, cardboard, skewers, ribbon, tissue paper (white, green with white polka dots), spool

Focus-overall design of the cake

This is where I got the idea for this cake.  There were parts that were easier than expected, as well as harder than expected.  The wheels were pretty easy.  Each wheel is four diapers, and after wrapping them with string, I then put white ribbon over the string.  To keep them together, cut off the sharp part of the skewer to length you need.  For me, I just needed to cut off the point.  Make sure the two skewers are the same length.  Then, using either your fingers or a crochet needle, hook the ribbon through the middle of the diapers and around the two skewers; make a knot (try to make it snug) and cut off the extra.  Move the knot to the inside of the wheel.  Be sure to tape or glue the ribbon at the ends of the skewers.



The big cylinder part of the train is even easier, because it's just three rings of 6 diapers wrapped with tissue paper.  You can use blankets instead.  I don't remember if I did this, but you could put a skewer through them to hold them together while you wrap them. 



The hardest part for me was the back of the train.  It kept sliding around and since it was so heavy, it kept trying to fall off.  I also wanted it to be pretty rectangular, and it didn't work until I used a cake mix box (really any box or cardboard will do).  The other difficulty was getting everything to stay together.  I didn't want to use anything that might damage the diapers when taken apart, so I used scotch tape and prayer.  This cake is a little top heavy, so that added some difficulty as well.  I solved this by adding the bottom board (wrapped in tissue paper).  The other board is wrapped with tissue paper as well.

This diaper cake was decorated August 2012.

Baby Stroller Diaper Cake

diapers (size 1), string, ribbon, crib sheet set, yellow tissue paper, silk flowers, kids shoebox (optional)

Focus-trying to make the diapers and crib sheet look like a baby stroller!

 

 

Here's where I got the idea.  Each wheel used 3 diapers, but any size to your liking is fine.  The crib sheet set is in the yellow tissue paper, which really helped with shaping the sides.  I used a shoe box for the overhead part and then wrapped diapers over it. 

 

This diaper cake was decorated June 2012.

Blue Flower Bouquet Diaper Cake

diapers (size 1), string, 6" cake pan, ribbon, tissue paper (blue and green), gift card

 

Focus-tissue paper flowers and wrap

 

Here's where this diaper cake idea started.  This diaper cake was for a mom of five, so I wasn't sure what she would need.  I figured one can't go wrong with giving diapers and gift cards!  I didn't want to just hand her a bag of diapers, so I started looking around YouTube for a creative way to wrap them.  I don't remember how, but I stumbled across this site and liked the look of the "vase".  Obviously, I used diapers instead of toilet paper rolls.  I then used this site for the tissue paper flowers.  Again, here's the link to the diaper stacking site.  For the flowers, I added leaves by cutting small rectangles, folding them in the middle (like you would for gift bags) so that all the corners are close together, and then taping each to the back of a flower.  The gift card was taped to a skewer, but I suggest getting the skewer through the diaper cake first.

 

This diaper cake was decorated June 2012.

Purple Flower Diaper Cake

 

 

diapers (size 1), string, cake pans (6", 8", 10"), ribbon, tissue paper (white, purple, and green)

 

Focus-overall design of the cake

 

Before I start, I'm sorry it's been a while since I last posted.  I have some more cakes to post, but they are mainly diaper cakes, mostly because diapers were more appreciated during that period of time than cake.  With this cake, I wanted to again try my hand at decorating this diaper cake as if it were a wedding cake.  I used the stacking diapers technique from this site again.  I find it works well, and I really don't want to roll up a bunch of diapers.  The tissue paper flower instructions are from this site.  Obviously, my flowers aren't the same size as Emma's, but to get my size, I just folded one tissue paper in half over and over until I got the size I wanted (about 3"x5", but whatever size is fine) and then cut on the folds.  I think I only used 4 or 5 pieces of tissue paper per flower. 

 

This diaper cake was decorated August 2012.