How to Make a Diaper Cake -- Without the Chocolate Filling

Step 5 Measuring Support String Holes

The support string is important because it holds all three tiers together so they do not shift during transport.

The diameter of the 'Top Tier' should be about 8 inches (if you used a pack of 96 diapers). We will use this measurement to help determine where the marks for the support string holes will go on the cake circle base.

Pull out one of the 12" cake circles (or whatever circle base size you are using).

Since the diameter of our 'Top Tier' is 8" and we want our support strings to be within the 8", so we subtract 1" from each side, making a 6" diameter internal circle. Our cake circle base is 12". When we subtract our 6" circle from the cake circle base the difference is also 6". If we were to center our 6" circle on the cake circle base, there would be a difference of 3" on both sides of the 6" interior circle to cake circle base. This will position our support string holes 3" from the outside edge of the cake circle base.

Make 4 dots onto the white side of the cake circle (you want the white side to face up in case some of it is seen around the edge of the diapers). The dots should be 3" (according to our measurements above) from the edge of the cake circle base.