Here, you’ll find 15 Unique Gender Reveal cake ideas perfect to celebrate this special moment, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them. If you’re looking for inspiration to place an order with your local baker, or you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a gender-reveal cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these gender-reveal cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?
To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.
Adapt your favorite cake recipe.
There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :
- You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
- You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could personalize your frosting.
Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.
Look for a cake recipe.
Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :
- The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
- Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.
Use my cake recipe recommendation.
Finally, you could try the delicious recipe I recommend. I firmly believe everyone should have a trustworthy chocolate cake recipe, and my chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting is both beginner-friendly and perfect for cake decorating. I’m sure you’ll love it.
What you will love about this recipe :
- It has a perfect chocolate flavor.
- It’s a really easy recipe, perfect for beginners.
- It has a great texture.
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect gender-reveal cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Gender Reveal Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy gender-reveal cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Easy Gender Reveal Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
For a gender reveal, it’s really common to opt for a white and classical cake design to keep all the magic on the inside of the cake.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Blue and pink cake topper.
- Gender-reveal cake toppers.
- Edible colored pearls.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Place your edible pearls on the cake and chill it in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Finally, use a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges on your cake and place your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
Covering a cake with buttercream is the most basic technique a cake decorator has to master. Once they do, they can create beautiful cake ideas like this one.
Sister or Brother Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- A piping bag with a small round piping tip (such as the 7 by Wilton).
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat and cover your cake as explained in the previous design.
- Once your buttercream cover has set, if you’re not used to writing with buttercream, use a toothpick or the tip of a knife to trace where you’re going to write.
- Then, retrace the imprint you made with white buttercream. Retrace once again with pink and blue buttercream. I always recommend practicing your writing on parchment paper until you’re confident enough to do it on your actual cake.
- Finally, add dots of blue, pink, and white buttercream with your piping tip.
What you’ve learned :
Learning how to write with buttercream on a cake comes in really handy to easily personalize them.
Mystery Cake.
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Blue and pink edible pearls.
- DIY golden buttercream.
- A piping bag with an open star piping tip (such as the 4B by Wilton).
- A piping bag with a small round piping tip (such as the 8 by Wilton).
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat and cover your cake as explained in the previous design.
- For the buttercream border. Hold the piping bag with the 4B piping tip at a 45-degree angle next to the cake’s bottom edge. Squeeze it to release the icing, and pull the bag away while releasing pressure forming a shell shape.
- Keep piping shells to form a border around the cake. Maintain a consistent angle and pressure for uniform shells. Remember, you can always practice on a sheet of parchment paper before piping on the actual cake. To get more clarity you can watch this quick shell border tutorial.
- For the golden question mark. Pipe your question using the writing technique described in the previous design and let it set in the fridge.
- Finally, place your edible pearls all around your cake.
What you’ve learned :
Buttercream shell borders are a cake-decorating staple that is used in all types of cake designs like vintage cakes.
If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas you can check out my baby shower cake ideas that can easily be adapted to a gender reveal party or my other cake ideas.
Gender Reveal Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 10 gender-reveal cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Minimalist Gender Reveal Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
If you like minimalist cake designs, this is the perfect cake for your gender reveal.
A little guidance
To recreate the baby blocks, a nice idea would be to turn them into cake pops. You could also go for basic fondant baby blocks.
Gender Reveal Heart Cake
Difficulty Level: 2/5 (Low-Intermediate)
You might have a preference for trendy cake ideas, in this case, this gender reveal heart cake and its vintage style are the perfect fit for you.
A little guidance
To recreate this cake you’ll need to be able to pipe shell buttercream borders with two open star nozzles (a 6B and a 1M for example).
Pink And Blue Gender Reveal Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Maybe you’re looking for a more classical cake design to celebrate this important moment.
A little guidance
If you’ve never made a fault-line cake, you can easily adapt this fault-line cake tutorial to use two colors of buttercream (in our case blue and pink).
Oh Baby Cake
Difficulty level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
You might be looking for a cake design that is the meeting point between classical and originality.
A little guidance
If you still struggle with buttercream swirls, have some practice on parchment paper following this basic buttercream swirls tutorial, before moving on to your actual cake.
What Will Baby Bee Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
Or maybe you’re looking for a more original kind of cake design, like this ‘What will this baby bee?’ cake.
A little guidance
To help you recreate the most complex elements of this cake, you can follow this fondant daisies tutorial and this fondant bee tutorial.
Footprints Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
You might prefer this cake and its artsy approach of a gender reveal cake.
A little guidance
To recreate this cake design you can follow this textured buttercream tutorial. For the footprints, if you’re not comfortable with freehand piping, you could draw them with a toothpick first.
Gender Reval Panda Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
If you’re more a fan of cute cake designs, you’ll love gender reveal panda cake.
A little guidance
Here you can apply the same technique as explained in the previous design. You can also practice on parchment paper until you feel confident enough to move on to the cake.
Gender Reveal Bear Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
Or you might choose to give a go to this gender reveal bear cake.
A little guidance
Of course, you’ll need to create bear figurines, and to guide you through the process you can rely on this fondant bear tutorial.
Gender Reveal Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers
These 4 gender-reveal cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Gender Reveal Gift Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
The welcoming of a child is a blessing, so what’s more suited to celebrate it than a cake shaped as a gift?
Floral Gender Reveal Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
Spring is the time for new beginnings, so you could also celebrate the arrival of this new family member with this beautiful floral gender reveal cake.
Vintage Gender Reveal Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Or you could opt for a more classic cake design with this vintage gender reveal cake inspired from the last century children’s room.
He Or She Bear Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Finally, when it comes to cakes for babies, bears are always a safe bet. If you need more cake inspiration, including other bear cake ideas, check out these 17 Baby shower cake ideas, that can easily be adapted for a gender reveal.
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