Heather from the Small Fry & C0. came up with this unique idea of packaging some burp cloths that she made to sell at a local festival. The burp cloths are wrapped up to look like cupcakes, and placed inside a cupcake liner. Certainly a great idea for a unique & crafty baby shower gift!

 Here are the details:

Materials

A cute & funky burp cloth

A piece of flannel fabric 15″ x 3″ / 1 1/2″ wide piece of fleece fabric

1 1/2″ wide piece of ribbon

Straight pins

Decorations for the top of the cupcake

Instructions

Step 1: Iron about 1 inch of one end to the wrong side of the burp cloth.

Step 2: Fold the burp cloth in half (wrong sides together) and press with and iron (the ironing is essential to make these)

Step 3: Fold in half again and press with an iron.

Step 4: (omit this step if using fleece) Fold the flannel in half and press with an iron.

Step 5: Begin rolling one end of the flannel to create the center of the cupcake. The crease should be to the top.

Step 6: With the crease of the flannel at the top and the crease of the burp cloth at the top, match the rolled end of the flannel to the end of the burp cloth that you DIDN’T fold over in the first step.

Step 7: Begin rolling the two pieces together. A couple of side notes: you want to keep this as tight as possible, if you want the center of the cupcake raised you can put the piece of flannel slightly higher than the burp cloth to begin, the flannel will magically seem to grow as you roll the cupcake. Don’t worry about this. Also if you are having a hard time keeping everything together you can pin the flannel to the burp cloth from the bottom edge and after everything is rolled together take it out.

Step 8: Rolling continues. Notice how the flannel is longer than the burp cloth now. I don’t know why that happens but we will take care of it. Also the bottom of your cupcake may not look that great when completed but who is going to look at the bottom when you make the top so cute.

Step 9: Here is my top view. I tried this putting two burp cloths together but my end product was much too large and bulky and it was really hard to roll. That is when I came up with the flannel strip instead to add some contrast and make the cupcake a bit larger. I would be interested to see what others can come up with to make these. Such creative women out there. Let me know if you make it work another way. I would love to see.

Step 10: Cut off the excess flannel just past the end of the burp cloth.

Step 11: Secure the ends to the cupcake with a couple of straight pins. And yes if yours looks like this you didn’t do anything wrong. I made a bunch of these and could never get the end to look even and neat. But we are going to decorate it next so not to worry.

Step 12: Measure a piece of ribbon long enough to go all the way around your cupcake and overlap. I cut the edge of mine with pinking shears.

  

Step 13: Cut a coordinating piece of ribbon for decoration the same length. Ric rac looks cute too. Secure these to the cupcake with a couple of pins. If you have ones with colored heads that you don’t mind giving away they look cute but straight pins work well also.

  

Step 14: Lastly decorate. I used these little scrapbooking flowers that I had around. I also cut out some shapes with a Cricut machine and taped them to toothpicks to make cupcake toppers for some of the ones I made (that worked great for my boy sets).

  

Secure your flowers with some pins and tada…you’re done.

 
 

They look really cute nested inside a cupcake liner. I think a set of 3 or 4 of these would make a great shower gift.

  

 

Tutorial as featured on U Create.