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:
2 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!!
That’s exciting! I LOVE Craftsy! I have some patterns posted there, but haven’t done any videos yet. You helped inspired me to do so!
Marti
Oh yay!
Congratulations! I have taken several classes on Craftsy and I think their concept is the greatest thing ever created. I love their classes and can’t wait to take yours to spruce up my cake making skills and create cute birthday cakes for my kids. I’ve also pre-ordered your new book and can’t wait to receive it.
Thank you SOOO much!!
Oh, I am so excited!!!!! And I never knew of Craftsy, so thank you for the introduction! You are so talented and Ilove it that you are willing to share! Best wishes on your new endeavor!
Hope you love Craftsy!! And thank you!
Congrats on your class & this is such a cute cake!
Thanks so much Jill!
That is such good news! Congratulations Amanda. Can’t wait to buy your class!
hi amanda! you are such a very well talented person. wish you were here so you can teach me on how to make suprise cake inside out. love it! wish to a copy of your cake. keep up the good work! can we be friends? 🙂
Congrats on the new gig! This is fab news!
I’m so excited! I don’t usually comment, but I love your blog! So far, I’ve made my oldest daughter’s birthday cakes myself and I’m always inspired by your cakes! Just had her 3rd birthday, and made a heart shaped cake, with frosting inspired by your “candy corn cake”.
I love the idea of having the class video for my use any time. If our newest addition (11 weeks old) wakes up or something I can always go back and see what I missed. I also have somehow never heard of Craftsy! Looks very cool and definitely my kind of website.
Yay, I entered! It’s my birthday on the 2nd so fingers crossed i get some lessons as a pressie =)
Love the blog and am totally going to try one of your surprise cakes for my birthday cake this year.
Keep up the good work!
Congratulations Amanda!! I am looking forward to see your class, I love Craftsy, it is so convenient to watch the videos at any time!