Diaper cake

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A typical, homemade diaper cake

Windeltorten or English Diaper Cakes are mainly in the United States a popular gift for expectant mothers on the so-called baby showers ( dt. Baby Shower ). They consist of diapers , curled up and in the form of a wedding cake tied together and with baby - utensils are "decorated". With the advent of baby showers in various European countries, this gift idea also became popular there; in German , diaper cakes are usually called diaper cake .

history

In the USA, diaper cakes on baby showers, which became increasingly popular in the second half of the 20th century, became a gift that was often met with high attention value, not least because it was “used” in television series . For example, in the television series Sex and the City , which was first broadcast in the USA from 1998 to 2004 and has since been shown in many countries around the world, a diaper cake is one of the outstanding props used in two different episodes, each with a baby shower thematize. Meanwhile, the (real) baby showers for pregnant " Hollywood - movie stars ," etc. a favorite subject of tabloids and lifestyle - magazines , in which case often reported by the "mandatory diaper cake", partly with direct reference to the Sex and the City -Idol.

In the course of the Americanization of everyday culture in Germany and Europe, baby showers also became increasingly popular there and ensured that diaper cakes and diaper cakes were equally well known. For example, the “making a diaper cake as a present for a pregnant friend” is mentioned in one of the “ everyday stories ” that the Folklore Commission for Westphalia and the Department of Folklore / European Ethnology at the University of Münster wrote in 2005 as part of a joint project on everyday culture collected as autobiographical material and published in 2006 by Waxmann Verlag in Münster .

Creation, development to a commercial object

Disposable baby-size diapers are mostly used as diapers . Common baby items include toys, clothing, care products, baby bottles, and bibs. In the USA, diaper cakes are usually bordered with wide ribbons made of textile fabric , which cover the rolled diapers, and are often assigned to special topics such as sports, animals, hobbies, etc. In Germany, diaper cakes are usually only decorated with gift ribbons, which are then placed behind them at the same time Holding Baby Utenlisia.

After initially as a creative gift from friends and relatives of the expectant mother tinkered itself were, there is "now a small market for special cakes". In the US in the wake of growing demand, "Diaper Cake Work" were (dt. Windeltorten- companies ) than one with little effort to realize business idea for Internet propagated -based company. This business idea has now spread to Europe and Germany.

For example, craft instructions can be found on the Internet , as well as corresponding online shop offers from special gift manufacturers to drugstore chains .

gallery

  • A handmade diaper cake for girls

  • A typical American diaper cake, with textile fabric surrounds

  • Diaper Cake, etc. a. decorated with baby shoes and bib

  • Diaper cake, with theme decoration "garden party"

  • Cake and food buffet at a baby shower , with a diaper cake as "table decoration"

  • Diaper cake

    Diaper cake for girls

Web links

Commons : Diaper Cake (dt. Windeltorte )  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Diaper cake  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Meghan Nelson: Oh, baby!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Column on the online news portal CullmanSense.com dated July 28, 2011; English, accessed August 9, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / cullmansense.com  
  2. ↑ a b Annika Juergens: Babyshower. Anticipation is the greatest joy on Eltern.de ; Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ Sex and the City Season 1 Episode Guide → Season 1, Episode 10: The Baby Shower ;
    Sex and the City Season 4 Episode Guide → Season 4, Episode 17: A Vogue Idea ; each on TV.com ; English, accessed August 11, 2011.
  4. ↑ See for example: Diaper cake & Co. Jessica Alba's perfect baby party! On: online magazine Promiflash.de from July 30, 2011; Retrieved August 11, 2011.
  5. ↑ Silke R .: "Since we have had a baby, finances have been looking tight." In: Ruth-Elisabeth Mohrmann, Folklore Commission for Westphalia (Ed.): "My November 18th." People write everyday stories. Waxmann Verlag, Münster u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-8309-1800-3 , pp. 90–92 ( Review , Vol. 4; Autobiographical materials of the project “My 18th November” of the Folklore Commission for Westphalia and the Seminar for Folklore / European Ethnology at the University of Münster; online at Google Books ).
  6. ↑ # 167: Diaper Cake Businesses. In: Lee Rowley, Sharon Cohen, Bill Askenburg: 199 Internet-Based Businesses You Can Start with Less Than One Thousand Dollars. Secrets, Techniques, and Strategies Ordinary People Use Every Day to Make Millions. Atlantic Publishing, Ocala (Florida / USA) 2009, ISBN 978-1-60138-255-9 , pp. 283-284 ( online at Google Books).
  7. ↑ See example websites in the web links section , as well as z. E.g .: How to Make a Diaper Cake . On: wikiHow.com ; English, accessed August 9, 2011.