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This DIY Postcard is a piece of cake

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I love getting mail. Any mail is great but I particularly love bright colored envelopes, pretty cards….or even a DIY postcard piece of cake!

I’m not the most talented or creative person, but after a trip to my local hardware store (and a few false starts) I finished the delicious-looking creation below.

Yes, that is a postcard, not a real piece of cake.  Not only will you bring surprise and joy to the lucky recipient of this creation, but to the postal workers who have the pleasure of mailing it out. “You MADE this?” they shall ask in disbelief.

The choices are endless too. Chocolate cake. Strawberry cake. Vanilla cake. Just change up the paint color and you’re good to go. 

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What You Will Need for DIY Postcard Cake:

  • 1 large sponge (Get extras because the first one can be tricky to make)
  • Serrated knife
  • X-Acto or utility knife
  • Spray paint (brown, yellow, pink or white)
  • 1 tube acrylic latex caulk (brown, cream or white)
  • Spray adhesive
  • Thin cardboard or thick scrapbook paper

Sorry I don’t have step-by-step photos of my experience. I made them in a fit of excitement and forgot to document it.  But here are the steps.

How to Make: 

1. Cut your sponge in half diagonally. Look at my final cake photo if that’s confusing. And don’t worry if you mess up! That’s why I told you to buy extra sponges. You can practice your “frosting” on the screw-ups too…

2. Cut a thin groove in the middle where your middle layer of “frosting” will go.

3. Spray paint it! (in well-ventilated area may I add)

4.  Trace the shape of your cake on cardboard of piece of thick paper. Cut it out. Glue that baby to other side of the cake that you didn’t cut the groove out of.

5. “Pipe” your frosting onto your cake..getting the groove first, and then the side and top. Make sure to get the sides of the cardboard creating a “frame”, but leave the bottom alone!

6.  Use a paintbrush to “swirl” your frosting for an even more realistic look. You got it.

7. Allow your cake to dry for 3-5 days on a piece of parchment paper.

8. Write a cheery greeting and mail that sweet piece of cake.

PS: The postal workers will be as excited as you are!

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PSS If you think your cake pieces will be a miserable failure, or don’t have the time to make them, Etsy sells them for around $15.

But c’mon, wouldn’t it be much more impressive to make it yourself? After all, it’s a piece of cake.

DIY postcard cake

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Comments

  10. First time here visiting posts from Waywow link up. Every time I scrolled past this “cake” I was wondering how it was a postcard. So here I am! It does look incredibly real, and I was dying to have a bite! I’m gonna pin it somewhere!

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  15. Sarah, this is so cool and so creative. I seriously thought this was a piece of cake, and chocolate icing is my favorite! YUM!

    I love that you fooled me, and I’m sure a bunch of others too! This would be a great birthday card front, I would love getting a piece of this in the mail!

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  22. Oh my gosh, I LOVE this. You could use these as invitations to a birthday party! I once mailed a plastic Easter Egg with candy and treats inside. You just have to tape the seem so it doesn’t break open in transit 🙂

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  25. This is crazy — it looks so real. I literally read two or three times to make sure I wasn’t seeing things, lol! That would be fun for the post office, haha.

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  33. Ok, this is definitely going to be served as a ‘special dessert’ for my kids on April Fool’s Day! (I’ll have some backup treats to ease the disappointment). Mailing them for birthdays is a fun idea too! Such a cool project!

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