Gender Reveal Party!

Today I had the amazing privilege of baking a cake for dear friends to reveal the gender of their newest baby! Up until today, I have never attended one of these parties, but they are getting more and more popular. If I had amazing will power, it would have been fun to do for one of our babies, but I have no will power! Her ultrasound was yesterday and she had her doctor’s office call me with the good news.

For the cake, I baked a delicious vanilla layer cake from the Primrose Bakery cookbook. Its a simple cake, with lots of butter and eggs. The recipe calls for the use of 8 inch pans but I only had 9 inch, so I doubled the recipe. This actually left me with enough batter to make a about 12 cupcakes.

For the buttercream, I used the Miette cookbook recipe. Its actually a meringue buttercream, so it is light and airy, as well as easy to to color. In the past I’ve used fruit juices to color the frosting, but for today, I just used pink food coloring gel.

To decorate I was inspired by the Baby Bosna gender reveal cake. I piped the colored buttercream into the center of the cake and then did an outer layer of white frosting. This prevented any peaking! For some fun, I used pastel chocolate melts in pink and blue to decorate around the outside of the cake. Plus, it was topped off with a chocolate melt question mark! Once that was done we headed to the party! I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking. Enjoy!