This fun Gender Reveal Cake is filled with a colorful sweet surprise that reveals to your eager guests if the baby-to-be is a girl or boy!
To make this cake you will need:
2Â white cake recipe or box mix
food color of choice
chocolate buttercream
pink/blue buttercream or decoration (can also be sprinkles)
Prepare one of the white cake mixes by following directions on box (or following your recipe) and blue or pink food color. You will be making the cake in a sheet pan lined with parchment paper. (A long flat pan or cookie sheet) Bake for about 12-16 minutes or until an inserted toothpick is removed clean.
Allow cake to cool for about 5 minutes. Using your hand or a paper towel or dish rag, gently rub the top of the cake. You want to remove any brown or hard bits from the cake. (If the top of your cake did not brown, you can skip this step.) Freeze cake for about an hour.
Using a baby cookie cutter, press the cutter into cake. Do as many of the baby cake cut outs as you can, trying to not waste any cake. Place baby cutouts back into the freezer.
Prepare remaining white cake mix following the directions on the box or your recipe. Pour about 1 cup of batter into 9-inch round cake pan with non-stick cooking spray. Place the baby cutouts standing up around the perimeter of the pan so that the entire center of the pan is filled with a line of cutout cake babies. (They should be touching. Try to not  leave any spaces between them or the white batter will seep in between.) Carefully pour remaining white batter over the cutout cake babies, filling in the sides first and then pouring over the top.
Bake in preheated 350°F oven 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the white cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.
Allow cake to cool completely before covering in buttercream.
I used this Chocolate Buttercream recipe.
Here is a video where I show you how to make a twice-baked surrpise-inside® cake.
To make the pink and blue dots around the edge, I just tinted some vanilla buttercream pink and blue and then piped onto the cake. I used a #10 tip and then gently pressed on each dot with a clean finger to remove any tips sticking out.
This cake is the perfect way to celebrate and reveal the gender of your baby!!
Congratulations! That is really cute =)
Thank you! Love your name!
What a cool opportunity. I love the name of your class. Wow, five kiddos. How do you find the time to make cake?
I have no idea. My oldest is 9 and youngest is 9 months… so we are very active! 🙂
Congrats on your new partnership. You definitely deserve it.
Thank you so much Meagan!
Hi, great news, I love Craftsy, but why can’t I enter to win an online course?
You can!
Oh my gosh, you totally had me fooled for a second! This cake is gorgeous and I love the way you decorated it in addition to the surprise on the inside. 🙂
lol sorry!! I am such a brat.
Ha! You are such a tease, I totally thought your were pregnant! Congratulations!!! Your surprise cakes are always stunning.
Thank you so much sweety!!!
Absolutely adorable!! And congrats on the partnership! It sounds like such a fun class!!
Thanks so much!
Amanda, I have to say I was a bit sad to hear you were not pregnant after reading the first couple intro sentences! How exciting though, teaming up with yet another company! God is really using you and giving you favor. I can’t wait to buy your book,just wish I could get a signed copy and meet and great you would be the icing on that cake!
Love your blog and of course your cakes and recipies you share, I have tried several and look forward to each new post.
Would love to get you a signed copy! And thanks so much for your kind words. I was just thinking today how blessed I feel and how lucky I am to feel His grace… even when I am a wretched bratty sinner who is the least deserving. He is just so faithful and good…
Thank you for the reminder! 🙂
That is really cool Amanda! I cant wait to see some of those classes!!! 🙂
Thanks girl!
haha! You absolutely had me going and I was freaking out that you were going to have a 6th kid!!! But sometimes projects are kind of like having a baby and this one with Craftsy is awesome!
That is so true!! I dont think I could blog anymore with six. I would have to retire and be a professional baby maker. 😉