Diaper Cake Ideas

- Let Your Creativity Sparkle -

a base / tier of diapers with a boy diaper snail on top, colors are in turquoise, green and bluelarge diaper snail cake

I present you with some really unique diaper cake ideas here!

Since I started my diaper cakes business about 10 years ago, I have made and sold over 3500 diaper cakes. I do have my standard designs but I have also made some very special and custom-made designs. And I have "experimented a bit" and have come up with my very own ideas and designs.

For my family and friends I have made new creations, with the outcome being some unique diaper cakes and baby shower centerpieces such as the boy diaper snail cake shown above.

Here are photos of cakes I made. Take my ideas and copy them or use them to just get some inspiration. Let your own creativity sparkle! Most of my diaper cake ideas come with a step-by-step tutorial so you can easily make your own. Click the links below each photo block to get to the instructions.


Traditional Diaper Cakes

Traditional diaper cakes are the ones that to some extent look like a real, edible cake. They can have 1-tier, 2-tiers, 3-tiers and even more. They can be plain or with various decorations and personalized or not. In addition they can have an overall theme but that's not a must. Here are a few examples for traditional diaper cake ideas.

plain, one tier diaper cake with a dark pink napkin flower on topone tier diaper cake
a traditional 3 tier diaper cake in blue and green with a beetle rattle on top, large wooden letters for personalization "Bruno"personalized diaper cake
a traditional 3 tier diaper cake with a dog plush toy on top, blue colorspuppy dog diaper cake
a pink traditional 3 tier diaper cake with a Winnie the Pooh Piglet on toppiglet diaper cake
wedding diaper cake: in plain white mostly, 4 tiers of diapers and a cake topper showing a bride and a groom as well as a baby4-tier wedding diaper cake - click image for instructions

How to make traditional diaper cakes.



Animal Diaper Cakes

When you make an animal diaper cake you can make the actual animal form which can be quite hard. An easier alternative often is a traditional diaper cake with a cuddly toy of this animal and all kinds of items related to this animal attached. An example of the latter would be the mouse diaper cake pictured below.    

a girl diaper snail wearing a pink hat with integrated feelersdiaper snail
a diaper owl with sleepy eyes wearing a blue bibdiaper owl
a diaper caterpillar in red and green, similar to the drawing of the "very hungry caterpillar"diaper caterpillar
a diaper mouse cake wearing a black Mickey Mouse hat and also decorated with red polka dot ribbondiaper mouse

If you want to pack more diapers into your diaper animal cake, make a combination of a traditional cake (tier 1) and put the animal on top like I did for this girly diaper snail cake: 

a diaper cake base / tier with a diaper snail on top in mostly purple and lilac colors, there's a purple hippo plush toy on topsnail diaper cake
a traditional three tier diaper cake with a mouse rattle on top, for baby girlmouse diaper cake

How to make diaper animals.



Diaper Baskets

Diaper baskets are a very easy way to pimp up a box of diapers in a nice way. There's no complicated diaper rolling and arranging involved. All you have to do is stack your diapers in a basket or if your basket is big enough, you can just put the complete, unpacked pack in your basket. Put a small baby blanket or burp cloth over the diapers and place some baby items such as (rolled) baby clothes, feeding items, baby care products or baby toys on top, et voila - ready!

a wooden basket with baby stickers filled with various baby goodies, very colorful with yellow baby shampoo and blue baby lotion and a pink bath sponge in the form of a fishsmall diaper basket
a large basket filled with diapers, 3 diaper babies on top as well as 3 rattles for newborn babiesdiaper gift basket for triplets

How to make diaper gift baskets.



More Diaper Cake Ideas


Diaper Babies

Diaper babies are very versatile, meaning you can realize all kinds of diaper cakes with them. If you need just a little gift or something to go with a gift card, just one or two diaper babies will be fine. But you can also make really big diaper babies gift baskets! 

Lately I have also started to place a sock diaper baby and a cuddly toy in a burp cloth, to make it look as if the baby was sleeping side by side with its cuddly toy in a bed or sleeping bag. Add a sticker "congratulations on your pregnancy" and there you have a cute idea to give as a pregnancy gift for your bff.


10 diaper babies placed in a row in pink and blue colorslots of diaper babies in a row
a pair of pink diaper babies with wooden letters for personalizationpair of diaper babies
5 diaper babies in a basket in blue colorssmall basket with diaper babies
a big basket with 6 diaper babies, a baby onesie and a plush heart musical toy, all arranged nicely in the basket, pink colorsbig basket with diaper babies
a diaper baby and bunny in a cloth with a sticker "congratulations on your pregnancy"congratulations on your pregnancy gift

How to make diaper babies.






Diaper Bouquets

Flowers are a popular gift for women. So why not combine 'flowers' and a baby gift with a diaper bouquet. 

a diaper cake on the form of a flower bouquet, the accessories are pirate themed such as a dark blue tight with pirates design, for baby boypirate diaper bouquet
girl diaper bouquet in red and pink colorsgirl diaper bouquet

How to make diaper bouquets.


Special Diaper Cake Designs

You think there cannot possibly be any more diaper cake ideas? You are totally wrong! How about an hot air diaper balloon, a diaper bike, a diaper sailboat, diaper meadow or a diaper tractor? Or also a little diaper gift for triplet babies?

Here you go: 

a large diaper tractor with a plush sheep riding on it, neutral colors in creme and greendiaper tractor
a diaper bike with a plush mouse riding it, blue colorsdiaper bike
a large diaper cake in the shape of Winnie the Pooh. The bear wears a yellow Winnie the Pooh hat.Winnie The Pooh diaper cake idea
a large box filled with diapers and lots of baby accessories as the base with a large white lantern on top (held with 4 wooden sticks) to make it look like a hot air balloonhot air balloon diaper cake

How to make a hot air balloon

diaper cake.


a large bucket with flower design filled with diapers and some baby items on top (rolled socks to make it look like flowers and a rattling snail toy)diaper meadow in a pail
a base of diapers in a boat shape with a small security blanket on a stick to simulate the sail, a yellow rubber duck is also on board as well as some other small baby itemsdiaper sailboat
3 little boxes on a thick board with a diaper baby in each box (to make it look like baby beds), the babies in the beds have wooden letters for personalization, there's a line across the three beds (on wooden sticks) to simulate a clothes line where several banknotes are fixed with little wooden pegsisn't this cute? my idea for a triplets diaper cake





I hope you like my diaper cake ideas. I have made all the above pictured diapercakes myself. It takes just a bit of imagination and sometimes a little bit of expertise, too. Try it out and enjoy!

For even more inspiration go to my diaper cake gallery where my community has shared their diaper cakes.


Visit my Pinterest page for even more one of a kind 

diaper cake ideas.


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