Kitchen Utensil Cake

Every once in a while I try to be crafty/creative and it actually turns out.  My soon to be sister in law was having a bridal shower so I thought I would try and make a utensil cake. On a side note, my soon to be sister-in-law will be the second Jenna Noland in the same family! Weird I know! I had seen a few pictures, on where else but Pinterest, and thought I was up for the challenge.  I read how a couple other people created their cakes and eventually came up with a way that worked out great for me. So here's what I did and what you'll need.

Ingredients:
Kitchen towels (the towels I bought came in a pack of 4)
Utensils of your choice
Ribbon
Pins
An empty coffee/hot chocolate tin

I washed out a tin of hot chocolate and used this to wrap the first towel around. I kept it folded the way that it was folded when I bought it. I stuck a couple pins in it to hold it around the container (the grey towel in the picture). Then I took another towel and without unfolding it the way that it came folded it in half the long way one more time. I wrapped this around the first towel (grey towel) and pinned it. The pin wasn't holding all the material great, so I quickly tied ribbon around it to hold it all in place.

For the top tiers of the "cake," I rolled up one towel like a sleeping bag as tight as I could (all white towel). Then I wrapped another towel around that (black towel) and tied it with ribbon.

I did have to take the tags off a few of the utensils and the towels to make this so I just threw them inside the hot chocolate tin in case the bride-to-be needed to return them. I then shoved one end of the top tier I just made into the canister part of the hot chocolate tin. From there I finished it off with the utensils I bought. I also cut out a piece of cardboard to use as a base and wrapped it in black and white striped wrapping paper I had. I hot glued this part to the bottom of the hot chocolate tin for the finished product.

I didn't realize how hard it is to give directions...hope it makes sense and that the pictures help if you decide to give this a try yourself.