Ah, the gender-reveal tradition. Over the last couple years, there has been an absolute explosion in the creative ways that people have found to tell the world about the impending arrival of pink or blue. Love ’em or hate ’em, you can’t really get away from them in the digital age. I was recently asked to make gender reveal cookies, which was a project I’d never even thought of before. Make pumpkins? Sure. Make flowers? You got it! Make a cookie that has a secret? Oooooookay, I’m going to need a minute.
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But hey, they actually turned out amazing! And as you should know by now, I am all about keeping it as simple as possible, so I *promise* that you can make these, too. We’ll take it step by step, together!
Step 1: Bake yourself some basic, foolproof sugar cookies. I used 2.5″ round circles with a smooth edge for my shape, and punched every third cookie into a donut shape with a .5″ circle in the middle.
Step 2: Mix up two batches of royal icing- one in white, and the other split between pink and blue.
Step 3: Lay one half of your full circles on your counter, and then ‘glue’ the donut circles to them with a line of royal icing. While that dries, flood your top circles with white icing.
Step 4: Pink or blue time! Use the color of your choice to fill in the hole created by your glued-together circle and donut. Fill it right to the top. Allow a few minutes of trying time and then draw another line of white royal icing around the top of the donut. Stick your flooded white top down on the color filled stack. Allow the top to dry fully.
Step 5: Smooth out your edges by going around your dried cookie stack with lines of white royal icing. Use a clean brush or fingertip to smooth the lines and prevent drips.
Step 6: Use your pink and blue royal icing to draw footprints on the tops of your cookies.
You’ve done it! Bask in the compliments! It really wasn’t all that hard, was it?
