Gender Reveal Cupcakes

Steps

• 1

  Preheat oven to 350°F and line a cupcake pan with 12 cupcake liners.
• 2

  Take the creamy vanilla filling and place it in a small bowl. Add 1-2 drops of red (for a girl) or blue (for a boy) food coloring and mix well. Place colored filling in a small Ziploc bag and seal.
• 3

  Make cupcake batter according to package directions. Fill each cupcake liner 1/3 of the way with batter.
• 4

  Cut off the corner of your bag holding the filling and pipe filling (about a tablespoon) in the center of each cupcake making sure not to touch the sides. Cover the filling with the remaining cupcake batter.
• 5

  Bake for 20-25 minutes and let cool.
• 6

  While cupcakes are cooling, prepare the chocolate ganache frosting. In a small bowl, heat the cream in the microwave for a minute. Place chocolate chips in a small bowl and pour the hot cream over the chocolate chips letting it sit for a minute to melt. Stir the cream and chocolate together. Be patient, it will take a while to incorporate. Once it's fully blended and smooth set aside to let cool for at least five minutes. The chocolate will get thicker as it sits.
• 7

  Once cupcakes are cool, dip the top of each cupcake in the ganache and let ganache set. You can speed up the process by placing them in the refrigerator.
• 8

  Once the cupcakes have set, garnish with blue and pink baby trinkets such as plastic pacifiers or booties.
• 9

  You may want to decorate some of the cupcakes with question marks. To do this just place the vanilla frosting in a Ziploc bag and cut off the corner. Pipe on a question mark.