{"id":637,"date":"2024-02-12T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2024-02-12T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T09:21:58","slug":"gender-reveal-cakesicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kayleighbaking.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/02\/12\/gender-reveal-cakesicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Reveal Cakesicles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I got to do something new over this last week \u2013 Gender Reveal Cakesicles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friends are having a baby (expected towards the end of next month) and asked me if I\u2019d be willing to make some cake-pops for them to have a gender reveal party. I have mini popsicle molds, so I asked if I could do those as I\u2019m not the best as free-shaping cake-pops. Funny enough, this was deemed to be OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The request was for 40 cakesicles to be made, but only one of to have the colour reveal inside. I was given the sealed paper with the baby\u2019s gender on it, and neither parent knew what it said. I was literally the only person other than the doctors \/ nurses to know! My husband didn\u2019t want to know either, so to try keep everything secret, I made both pink and blue cake fillings to ensure the mystery remained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made the cake and cakesicles on the Sunday. I have 2 molds, so shaped 8 at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wrapped them in greaseproof paper and put them in zip-lock bags until later in the week. The day I did this I wasn\u2019t fully paying attention and ended up making far more cakesicles than we\u2019d actually need. Plus side \u2013 this gave me more for practice \/ errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, I took the cakesicles out of the freezer to defrost during the day, and then I started working on them Thursday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had bought bags of white candy-coats to use so that I wasn\u2019t trying to colour white chocolate. I melted these a bag at a time, and after adding vegetable shortening I finally got it to a consistency I was happy with for dipping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dipping commenced. I dipped all of the cakesicles and picked the \u201cbest\u201d ones for the final 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had numbered the backs of all of the sticks and knew which number was the gender reveal coloured one which made it easier to keep track of for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My friend had made some chocolate stars \/ moons which she had coloured gold, but asked that I just go with whatever I fancied for decorations. I did a collection of gold designs using glitter, gold leaf, and her toppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had bought some clear plastic boxes for cakesicles, so boxed up my favourite 40. I collected these back at the party for re-using to avoid the impact of “single use” plastics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After boxing up the best ones, I had a LOAD spare. Thankfully, we have plenty of friends and workmates to pass these on to, as well as freezing some for family next weekend (they freeze for a few months).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I kept one each of the coloured ones so that I could 1 – test to see if you could see the colour through the chocolate (you couldn’t), and 2 – to take some pictures of the cut cakesicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The finishing touch was adding some small gold bows to each stick which I applied with glue dots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When it came for the actual reveal at the party, the hosts allowed everyone to pick a cakesicles from the table. I kept an eye on who chose the one with the colour in it, and then they had everyone stand in a circle. Starting at the parents to be, each person took turns in biting their cakesicles to see if it contained a colour \u2013 to make this last longer we sent the order the longest way around the circle from the person who had the reveal. They got a video of this (2 minutes 20 before the bite revealed a colour).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, they\u2019re having a boy \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got to do something new over this last week \u2013 Gender Reveal Cakesicles My friends are having a baby (expected towards the end of next month) and asked me if I\u2019d be willing to make some cake-pops for them to have a gender reveal party. I have mini popsicle molds, so I asked if … <\/p>\n

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