Gender reveal cupcakes with filling on the blog today!
Despite what it looks like, I promise I’m not a cupcake-aholic.
Maybe slightly.
But these were hardly my fault.
My neighbor was in charge of making a gender reveal box full of colored balloons for her niece’s party, so I thought I would make some cupcakes to accompany. Like I told you, not my fault. They were merely an act of kindness for someone else. No selfish icing sampling motives involved 😉
My neighbor got the honor of opening the orginal ultra sound envelope and…
I’ve never met my neighbors niece, but I am still pretty excited for her because babies are exciting. Well, not the sleep depriving, diaper chaining, spiting up, crying stuff, but something about babies must be exciting because people seem to like them. They do have that chubby cute thing going for them.
Clearly, I’m not a mom. Our dog Bourbon is enough of a handful for now, and sometimes even he can be a bit much….I can decorate cupcakes, though, which brings me back to the topic at hand: Gender Reveal Cupcakes with filling!
See the written instructions as well as my icing recipe here:
- 18 plain cupcakes (baked and cooled) or store bought
- 2 cups shortening
- 2 lbs powdered sugar
- 3 TBS Meringue Powder
- 5-6 TBS warm water
- 3 tsp Butter flavor (Wilton preferred)
- 2 tsp vanilla flavor (Wilton preferred)
- 2-3 drops blue (or pink for a girl) icing dye (Wilton preferred)
- Small white pearl shaped sprinkles
- Large white pearl shaped sprinkles
- Wilton #212 tip with throw away bag and coupler (this is what keeps your icing tip in place)
- Wilton #12 tip with bag and coupler
- 18 non-edible rubber duckies (use both blue and pink duckies, unless you want the gender to be obvious without biting into the cupcake)
- Icing Preparation: Mix icing ingredients in a stand up mixer for 3-5 minutes, scrape edges of bowl with a spatula and mix for another 3-5 minutes. Icing should be thick.
- Separate about one cup of the icing into a separate bowl and dye it blue or pink by adding 2 drops of blue or pink icing dye and mixing well.
- Place blue (or pink) icing into a piping bag with a Wilton #230 tip
- Place white icing into a piping bag with a Wilton #21 tip
- Take a cooled cupcake and put the #230 tip bag about 1 inch into the cupcake and begin squeezing. Slowly pull the tip out of the cupcake, but continue to squeeze until the tip is out of the cupcake.
- Using the Wilton #21 tip bag, squeeze 5 swirls around the center of the cupcake. Then squeeze one big swirl in the center. Sprinkle immediately with small pearl sprinkles, then place one to two large pearl sprinkles on cupcake.
- Next, put that cute little ducky on top. And done.
- Make sure cupcakes are cooled before filling
- I bought all my supplies at a craft store
Kathy says
Very nice of you to make reveal cupcakes for someone you don’t even know, YET!!! lol
So wish I could have gone to the party, but life had something else in mind that day. But so happy for Jeanne and Adam and the baby boy they are having. The video was great and the cupcakes looked very yummy… Nice job and super cute.
thegingerlifeblog@gmail.com says
Thanks Kathy! We need another get together soon!
Christina Gaskins says
Where can I get the rubber ducks?