Neutral Baby Shower

Gender Neutral Baby Bum cake for a Baby Shower

 

 

 Baby's name will be Bentley no matter boy or girl

 

 

Owl Gender Reveal Cupcakes

Owl Themed Gender Reveal Cupcakes

 

Guess WHOO

 

Pink OR Blue

 

Step-by-step of how I made my Buttercream Owls

 

 

Our Reveal!

We recently had our 20 week doctors appointment and ultrasound, in which we were luckily enough to be able to find out little Dex's gender! We decided to have our families over for dinner to reveal baby's gender to everyone at once and in person! Since I'm a little bit of a baker I wanted to try making a new type of cupcake but that could still be used for that very purpose. So I went with was is called a Hi Hat Cupcake.

This is what they are suppose to look like...

but mine were a complete FAIL!

The marshmallow frosting turned out a disaster, I don't think I got it hot enough or maybe the gel tint ruined it, I don't know. But I wanted to show I still make mistakes and things don't always go as planned in the baking world. I usually don't share many of my failed attempts at dinners or baked goods but this one was a complete and utter flop!

I, of course did not fully prepare these cupcakes a head time, I decided to wait to put them together after our appointment with only an hour and a half in between till our families were to arrive.  Poor planning on my part!

Fortunately for me, even though the frosting never got to the consistency I needed it still tasted wonderful so I tinted it and made it the filling inside the cupcake.

It's all about improvising! 

 Plus, I always keep left over frosting in the freezer and was so thankful I do so, I already had extra chocolate cream cheese frosting in there so I quickly defrosted and whipped up to top off my cupcakes. They turned out awesome!

The blue cupcakes are my failed attempt at the frosting not going my way. The chocolate are my improvised version.

We waited until after we ate dinner for the reveal....to help build the anticipation of course ;)

We gave Carter the first cupcake to bite into so he could reveal if his new cousin would be a girl or boy.

 Cupcakes reveal BOY!!

The large majority thought for sure it was a girl, but everyone is thrilled to have another little boy in the family.

We are so excited to meet our little man in August!

Gender Reveal Cupcakes

 Our friends Lincoln and Kylah are pregnant with their second child. They had their BIG ultrasound scheduled for Friday. Kylah asked if I could make some gender reveal cupcakes for them half of each color so they could take them to the grandparents to reveal which gender they were having right after their appointment. We decided on a chocolate cupcake with a creamy marshmallow filling topped with chocolate ganache and a white icing "?" (just like a homemade Hostess cupcake).

 I made half with blue tinted filling and half with pink. Making sure you were unable to see any color from the outside. In order to reveal what Kylah and Lincoln were having each grandparent was given the appropriate colored cupcake to break open and see....

They're having a BOY!

Congrats again Lincoln, Kylah and family! We are so happy and excited for you!