Do You Have To Bake Colored Cake Separately For Gender Reveal Cupcakes?

Surprise Inside Gender Reveal Cake

Since gender reveal week is coming to a close, I guess it's about fourth dimension I reveal the gender.

Some of yous already know or accept guessed. If yous follow me on Instagram, then you lot may accept seen my latest (and only) bump pic asking you lot whether you lot idea I was carrying high or low. A few were pretty sure y'all knew after I posted that picture. I judge my bump gives it away.

I besides mentioned in the concluding post that I knew the gender of this baby before information technology was even born cheers to an old "wives tale" that my former boss used to preach to u.s. anytime anyone we knew ended up pregnant.

Here's how it goes:

Considering the gender of the baby is determined by the father (sperm), wait at his family line. Is he the youngest of all girls? Is his dad i of iv boys? If the male side of the family is dominated by girls, so there is a good chance you lot are having a girl. If it's dominated by boys, well then yous are having a boy.

I think this wives tale merely really works well if there are lots of kids in the family and it heavily swings i fashion or the other. Otherwise, if the grandfather had an older sis, but dad has a younger sister, information technology may exist a total crapshoot.

Luckily for me, Billy's side of the family swings very heavily in ane management.

It'due south a boy!!

Because Billy'due south family is pretty much all boys (I don't recall he has a single daughter cousin on his dad'southward side of the family), nosotros were pretty sure nosotros were having a boy. Then when the nurse called u.s. after my 12-week blood test with the news, nosotros were not surprised in the least to hear the results!

Of course, we would have been happy with either, but we are thrilled for a male child. If we were having a girl, I simply know she would have her dad wrapped around her finger the instant she was born. At least now this child stands a slight chance of not existence completely spoiled by dad.

We'll leave the spoiling for the grandparents.

Okay, enough nearly this infant boy. Allow's go to the cake!

Tools and Recipes

The beauty of this cake is that you can make any flavor you lot like! The only thing that really matters is the colour of the candies in the center.

However, I will circumspection y'all against strawberry cake if you are having a boy. That may be a little confusing.

For my cake, I fabricated a simple vanilla cake recipe, adapted from my favorite cupcake recipe. You can observe the recipe at the finish of the mail.

Y'all could too make a boxed block because there is no shame in that. Here are my tips for making a boxed mix sense of taste like a homemade block.

You just need enough cake to make at least 3 layers of cake, so that one layer tin hold the candy center. A typical cake recipe can make a 3 tiered 6" block, only I would double most recipes if yous want to brand a bigger block, such equally a 8" or 9" cake.

For reference, I made a four tiered 6" block. I doubled my cake recipe and had plenty concoction left over to make a few cupcakes. It would have been the perfect amount of batter to brand a 4 tiered eight" or 9" block.

Aside from the bodily cake, y'all will demand the following:

1-2 batches of buttercream (1 batch for a 2 tiered cake 6-9" in bore, 2 batches for a 3-4 tiered block six-9 inches in diameter)
Nutrient coloring
Fondant
Lollipop sticks
Sprinkles
Contrasted candies in pink or blue

I would besides recommend the post-obit to make your cake assembly and decorating much easier:

Cake turntable
Cake leveler
Piping bags
Offset spatula
Bench scraper

How to Arrive

Start with your already broiled cake. Level and split up the cake into however many layers yous similar.

Tip: Chill your cake earlier y'all start cutting into it. Information technology will cut much easier and will non produce every bit many crumbs.

Identify your middle layer or layers. Use a round cookie cutter to cut a circle in the eye of the layer(s).

To build the cake, start past placing the lesser layer on a cake board or cake stand. Afix it to the board or stand with a fiddling buttercream.

So pipe a ring of buttercream around the edge of the block equally broad equally the second layer.

Place the second layer on repeat with the 3rd layer.

Fill the middle hole with blue or pink candies.

Tip: Hit upward your local candy store that sells candy by color. Many sell M&Ms, Jelly Beans, and other goodies separated by colour. That way yous don't accept to become digging through a handbag of K&Ms for just the blue or pink ones.

Pinnacle with the final layer of cake and press down to make sure all layers are secure and level.

Encompass the entire cake with a very sparse layer of frosting to trap in all the crumbs then place dorsum in the fridge to set for about 20 minutes.

Once the cake is out of the fridge, cover the entire thing with a generous amount of frosting. The frosting doesn't accept to be perfect merely make sure the entire cake is covered and it'south generally pretty square and level.

Using a big spatula will make your life a lot easier in this effort!

To get the pink and blueish streaks, just tint a small amount of frosting pinkish and bluish. Then add together dots of frosting haphazardly around the cake. Use a spatula or demote scraper to then drag the icing effectually the block in one big motion.

If you want to add more color, add more dots of icing and echo the process.

In that location is very little technique involved with this! Just keep spreading the frosting until you are happy with the results.

If you want to add a niggling something extra to the pinnacle of the block, might I suggest these trivial fondant question marks!

I colored several pocket-size assurance of white fondant with gel nutrient coloring. Rolled them out and cut them with a question marking cookie cutter, and then attached them to a lollipop stick.

Place ane cut out question mark backwards on your work surface, spread a bit of h2o on the dorsum, place the stick in the center, then add together the other question mark on top. Be sure to printing downward the edges and wrap the top question marker around the stick.

Permit these sit out apartment for at least an 60 minutes so they can dry and harden.

All that'southward left to do is to add some sprinkles on top and stick the question marks in!

Oh...and cut into information technology!

That's the best part.

Which only slightly edges out eating it!

Vanilla Cake Recipe

Ingredients

2 one/4 cups flour
1 one/2 tsp baking powder
1/four tsp baking soda
3/four tsp salt
i loving cup butter, softened
1 i/ii loving cup sugar
1/iv vegetable oil
three eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup milk
1 tsp white vinegar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Ready two cake pans by spraying lightly with baking spray and roofing the bottom with a circle of parchment paper.
In a large bowl sift together flour, baking soda, baking pulverization, and common salt. Set up bated.
In the bowl of a stand up mixer, cream together butter and saccharide until light and blusterous (about 2 minutes). Mix in oil until well combined.
Add in the eggs one and a time and mix until completely incorporated. And so mix in vanilla.
Add vinegar to the milk and stir.
To the butter and sugar mixture, mix in a 3rd of the flour mixture. Then mix in half of the milk mixture. Repeat with one-half of the remaining flour and all of the remaining milk. Finally, mix in the rest of the flour until you accept a smooth concoction.
Split the concoction betwixt the cake pans.
Broil for 30-40 minutes (smaller cake pans may take longer because the cake is thicker), or until a toothpick entered into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Let absurd on the counter before decorating.

Notes

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Broil Time: 35-40 minutes

Makes two eight-nine" block tiers, iii vi" cake tiers, or 18 cupcakes

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July 20, 2018

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