Diaper cakes, towel cakes - isnt it amazing the different types of craft cakes people invent? The cakes arent edible; they are made from stacks of gifts for a wedding, birthday, baby shower or other occasion. When you think of cakes which are decorations and not food you might not normally think of toilet paper. However, when you make a tiered cake from rolls of bathroom tissue youll create a gorgeous table decoration thats made from something we all need and use. With the price of toilet paper nowadays its a nice gift! You can make a plate or tray for the cake by cutting a circle of cardboard and covering it with cloth or paper. Make sure the tray will be large enough by arranging eight rolls of toilet paper in a tight circle. The tray should be slightly larger than the circle of toilet paper.
To assemble the easy party cake take those eight rolls of toilet paper and arrange them in a circle on the tray. Cut a piece of ribbon to wrap around them. The ribbon can be as narrow as an inch or as wide as three inches. A narrow ribbon will show more of the toilet paper but a wide ribbon will nearly cover the rolls. You can instantly give the toilet paper cake a theme for a wedding, birthday or other event just by the type of ribbon you use. Craft and fabric stores carry ribbon with all sorts of designs and images. Wrap the ribbon around the entire circle of toilet paper then tape or glue the ends so that one barely overlaps the other.
Stack five rolls of bathroom tissue on the eight rolls so that they form a slightly smaller circle than the eight rolls. Center these on the eight. Tie another ribbon around these five rolls and tape or glue the ends. Now set a single roll on top and wrap a ribbon around it. If you look down at the stack youll notice that you can see the entire opening of the cardboard tube in the top toilet paper roll and partial openings on all the other rolls. Use these to place the embellishments on the cake. If youre making the cake for a baby shower you can set rattles, pacifiers and small toys in the holes. If the cake is for a wedding slide the stem of an artificial flower into each hole. The cake can hold small stuffed animals, wrapped candies and many other things. Set something on top of the single toilet paper roll as the centerpiece for the cake. It can be a few more flowers, placed in the cardboard tube, a stuffed animal or even a candle in a glass container. The finished cake is humorous, useful, and actually does look really pretty!
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