All about the Cake, nappy cake….

So it is HOLIDAYS and whilst the house is full and noisy (which I totally love) I have managed to grab a few minutes to write this week’s blog. (all right, you got me, I got more than a few minutes!)

This week will again be “All about the cake, yes the cake, o’ trouble, all about the cake, ‘bout the cake, o’trouble”

Couldn’t resist! Did I make you sing that line….haha, I did!

Please do not get me wrong….I LOVE CAKE, especially baked cheesecake (hint to whoever wishes to spoil me with a piece). BUT (yes that word again), there is always cake left at parties except maybe if you have 25 teenagers on a growth spurt.

So I continue to explore what else will work at a party, and this time it will be at a Baby Shower!

Every culture has it’s own traditions on baby showers and where I come from we eat, play games, celebrate and watch the pregnant mom open pressies. Last year I had the privilege of helping arrange a baby shower for a friend and as it was for little baby girl I couldn’t resist doing a Vintage, Soft Pink Party.

Note: If you read the “who I am” section you will see that I have a testosterone filled house, thus pink and pretty isn’t really what floats the majority of the Greenhouse boat

Excitement!! I love throwing parties and making people feel special!

(I will share more about the party in one of my future posts)

As the Cypriot blood runs deep, I always seem the need to feed or maybe the correct word is ‘overfeed’ the guests. I am sure deep down I am worried that the guest would have missed the previous meal or may skip the meal ahead. And so I bake and make food for Africa!

But the cake, oh the cake….the one thing that I am very sure there will be a lot left over of is where I needed to become creative. And so, my search on Pintrest starts for non-edible cakes. I found a bunch of picture of fabulous nappy cakes and decided to try my hand at it.

I gave myself two guidelines:

1. Be as economical as possible – there was so much else I wanted to do for the party
2. Use as much of the stuff I have at home

With this in mind, I landed up with one pack of nappies (a gift by another friend for the guest of honour) and lots of odds and ends from my “office”.

So, only having one pack of nappies I realised that I had to become creative in getting the cake to look “full”. So instead of rolling every nappy up (as traditionally done), I made a fake inside for every layer with toilet rolls and then layered the nappies one on top of another around each layer. Using ribbon, I tied each layers nappies together.  For some more decoration I used the negative sides of the paint swatch samples that I made confetti out of. To top off the cake I made bunting from ribbon, rope and kebab sticks. And VOILA, you have a nappy cake!

I was hoping to have more photos but for some reason didn’t take any photos during the stages building as I didn’t think I was going to share this with anybody (eeeek, and look at me now! Sharing is caring)

If you need more guidance, I would suggest googling and youtubing as there are amazing stuff out there!

(my spell check says that there is no such words….but what the heck, some new words for the dictionary!)

Happy Cake making!!