30 Best Gender Reveal Food Ideas

A girl or a boy, well, it can be one of the first questions that may pop up in the would-be parents’ minds! And finding out whether it will a daughter or a son can be a special experience for the soon-to-be parents. So, if you are one such set of would-be parents who have recently come to know of their baby’s sex and looking for ways to announce to your family and friends, well, then what better than hosting a party with some delectable gender reveal treats to make your announcement ultra-special! Read on this yummy blog that shares some interesting and fun gender reveal party food ideas!

Quick and Easy Gender Reveal Food Ideas

Here we have some easy gender reveal food ideas that will perk up your gender reveal party and gathering!

1. Colorful Deviled Eggs

This yummy and simple savory dish is whipped by using just a handful of ingredients. And if you are thinking that deviled eggs go well with Easter, well, wait till you check out this deviled egg recipe with a quirky twist!

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Ingredients 

• Eggs
• Vinegar
• Pink or blue food colors
• Water

Instructions

1. Place eggs in a pot and add water to boil them. Once done, remove from fire and set aside for cooling.
2. Remove the eggshells.
3. In a separate pot, boil some water and a spoonful of vinegar into it. Add the food color and mix well.
4. Place the boiled eggs in the colored water and let the eggs sit for 10 to 15 minutes.
5. Place the colored eggs on a paper towel and let them dry.
6. Cut the eggs into halves, scoop out the yolks and fill them with the filling of your choice.

2. Nuts or No Nuts

Well, if you think you are doing too much of pink or blue themed food items, you can take a break and treat your guests with some colorful and tasty snacking options with our favorite M&Ms. You can go with both nuts and no nuts options. Place them in quirky dishes and make a cute banner to state the ones that are with nuts and the ones that are sans nuts.

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3. Fortune Cookies

These cookies will not be telling the guests about their future but these would surely be telling them whether you are having a girl or a boy!

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Ingredients

• Small chits of paper with ‘it’s a baby boy’ or ‘baby girl’ written or printed on them
• Fortune cookies

Instructions

1. Microwave the cookies for a few seconds or place them on a wet towel to make them tender.
2. Once the cookies are tender, open the flap and insert a chit in every cookie and fold it back.
3. You can place the cookie on the rim of the glass to restore its shape.
4. Serve cookies to all the guests at the same time and ask everyone to open the cookies together to reveal the gender of your munchkin!

4. Colored Popcorn

The all-time favorite snack is one of the best baby gender reveal food ideas for a party!

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Ingredients

• Popcorn kernels
• Blue or pink food color
• Butter
• Granulated sugar
• Salt
• Water

Instructions

1. Prepare popcorn as per the directions mentioned on the box or packet.
2. In a pan, add water, sugar, and butter and bring to boil.
3. Now add the food color of your choice along with the salt. Mix well and keep aside.
4. Take the popcorns and pour the colored sugar mix on them and mix well.
5. Keep aside for an hour or more or until the mixture is no longer sticky.
6. Store in an airtight container in the fridge.

5. Chocolate Strawberries

Chocolate covered strawberries are a guilty pleasure that most of us love to indulge in and it also makes for a great luxury snacking option for parties. Here we will be lending it a little gender reveal twist.

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Ingredients

• Fresh strawberries
• White chocolate
• Pink or blue food color

Instructions

1. Heat white chocolate in a double boiler or microwave it until it melts completely. Add food color in it and keep aside.
2. Take strawberries and dip them in the melted chocolate.
3. Keep the chocolate dipped strawberries on a plate to set.
4. You can also make dark chocolate coated strawberries, in the same manner, to add more color and flavor options to your chocolate-coated strawberry platter!

6. Babies in Blanket Recipe

If you are looking for adorable savory options and wish to know what food to serve at a gender reveal party, well this recipe will surely tickle everyone’s taste buds!

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Ingredients 

• Small-sized smoked sausages
• Frozen puff pastry
• Camembert cheese
• Egg
• Dijon mustard
• Blueberry or raspberry jam
• Water

Instructions

1. Thaw and cut the puff pastry into equal squares and then cut the squares into triangles.
2. Mix a tablespoon of mustard and three tablespoons of jam (as per choice) and spread on each triangle.
3. Cut the cheese into wedges (almost the same size as sausages)
4. Place a cheese wedge and sausage in each triangle and fold the pastry ends to secure the filling.
5. Mix egg and a tablespoon of water in a bowl and brush the top of the pastries with it for a glaze and shine.
6. Bake at 425 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until done.

7. Muddy Buddies Recipe

Without a doubt, these are one of the tastiest and also fairly easy to make snacking options for a gender reveal party and you can add a hint of a blue or pink twist to it!

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Ingredients

• Corn or rice cereal (or any cereal of your choice)
• Peanut butter
• White chocolate chips
• Powdered sugar
• Vanilla extract
• Blue or pink sprinkles

Instructions

1. Take a bowl, add chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter, and microwave until all the ingredients turn into a smooth mixture.
2. Add vanilla extract into the mixture. Mix well.
3. In a big deep bowl, add cereal and pour the chocolate mix over it and mix nicely.
4. Spread on parchment paper and add sprinkles of your choice. Let it dry before storing in an airtight container.

8. Cookie Dough M&M Truffles

The best part about cookie dough is that you can use it to make a wide array of delectable delights and this one with M&Ms will perk up your gender reveal food menu!

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Ingredients

• White or dark chocolate
• Cookie dough
• M&Ms in pink or blue colors

Instructions

1. Scoop out cookie dough and place M&Ms inside it.
2. Roll the dough into a ball. Repeat until you make the desired amounts.
3. Melt chocolate in the microwave.
4. Dip the cookie balls in the melted chocolate and place them on a plate to dry.

9. Cake Pops

Cake pops not only look divine but they taste heavenly too and a hint of gender reveal twist will make them fabulous party food!

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Ingredients

• A cake
• Cream frosting
• White chocolate
• Pink or blue food color
• Sprinkles (optional)
• Popsicle sticks

Instructions 

1. Take the cake and crumble it with your hand.
2. Add cream frosting to make a dense mixture. Avoid adding too much frosting or else the mixture will turn too gooey.
3. Keep taking small portions and roll them into balls. Keep aside.
4. Melt the white chocolate in a double boiler or microwave it until it melts.
5. Add desired food color and coat the cake balls with the melted chocolate.
6. Place on a plate and insert popsicle sticks.
7. You can also sprinkle colorful sprinkles on top!

10. Chocolate Oreos

This yummy yet one of the simplest gender reveal ideas can be made with bare minimum ingredients.

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Ingredients 

• Oreos
• White chocolate
• Pink and blue food color

Instructions

1. Melt the white chocolate to create a dip.
2. Prepare two bowls with pink and blue colors by mixing them with the white chocolate.
3. Take Oreos one by one and dip in the respective color bowls. Place on a parchment sheet to set.

11. Gender Reveal Cookies

This is a great gender reveal food idea and it looks utterly adorable too.

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Ingredients

• Cookie dough
• Onesie cookie dough cutter
• Royal icing
• Candies or sprinkles in pink or blue color
• Piping tip
• Baking sheets

Instructions 

1. Roll out the cookie dough and cut cookies using the onesie cookie dough cutter. You will need three cutouts to make one cookie.
2. Using a sharp knife to cut a small square from two cookie cutouts. Place one cutout cookie on top of the other cutout cookie and fill in the cavity with desired colored candies.
3. Seal with the uncut cookie as you secure the edges and top with royal icing. Decorate the top as desired with royal icing.

12. Gender Reveal Cupcakes

What better than biting into sumptuous cupcakes to know the gender of the baby at a gender reveal party.

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Ingredients

• Cake mix
• Cupcake mix
• Frosting
• Food color of choice
• Heart shape cookie cutter (or any shape)

Instructions

1. Mix the cake mix as suggested and add the food color of your choice and bake a cake. Cut a small heart using the heart cutout from it.
2. Place a heart each in each cupcake mold and fills the rest of the mold with cupcake mix. Bake as suggested.
3. Decorate with any frosting of your choice.

13. Gender Reveal Pinata Cake

A cake oozing with a surprise that shares the gender of your baby does not get better than with this pinata cake!

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Ingredients

• Three to four layers of cake
• Frosting
• Candies in blue or pink color

Instructions

Keep the layer to be used for the top and bottom of the cake intact.

1. Scoop a circle out from the rest of the cake layers.
2. Take the bottom layer of the cake, place the middle layers on top, and fill the cavity with candies. Place the top layer to secure the cavity.
3. Decorate the cake top as desired!

14. Baby Face Cookies

This unique and healthy gender reveal food idea will be a hit at your party!

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Ingredients

• Nutter Butter cookies in desired amounts
• A cup of blue or pink candy melts
• One black icing marker

Instructions

1. Take the desired colored candy melt and melt it in the microwave as directed.
2. Take Nutter butter cookies one by one and dip just half of it in the candy melt and keep on the parchment paper for setting. Make all the cookies in a similar way.
3. Take the black icing marker and make two dots on each cookie to make them look like eyes. Keep aside to set.

15. Licorice Straws

Who does not relish yummy licorice straws and if your guests love sweet treats then what better than keeping these on the menu! These straws come in a wide array of colors and flavors and you can pick and choose girlie or boyish colors for your gender reveal themed party. Sticking to basic pink and blue licorice may not be that bad an idea though!

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16. Strawberry/Blueberry Coconut Chia Seed Pudding

A tasty and sweet way to reveal what you are expecting.

Ingredients

• 1 can coconut milk
• 1/2 cup chia seeds
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1-2 tbsp maple syrup
• 8 strawberries or blueberries

Instructions

1. Mix the milk, chia seeds, vanilla and sweetener in a bowl.
2. Let it sit in the fridge overnight.
3. If the chia seed pudding is too thick, add some more milk to thin it.
4. Top it with sliced strawberries or blueberries, according to the gender.

17. Pink and Blue Healthy Shake Jars

Not only do these pretty blue and pink jars will look divine, but this recipe is super healthy too!

Ingredients

• Frozen banana
• Frozen mango
• 1 scoop protein powder
• 1 tsp blue spirulina powder
• 1 tsp pink pitaya powder
• 100ml coconut milk

Instructions

1. Add frozen banana and mango to a mixer along with protein powder and coconut milk and mix.
2. Take out the shake in two separate jars and add the blue and pink powder to each jar.
3. Let the guest pick a glass and tell them what they think you are expecting.

18. Cotton Candy Gender Reveal

A great way to reveal the gender of your baby is by simply announcing with everyone’s favourite – cotton candy.

Ingredients

• Sugar
• Corn syrup
• Water
• Salt
• Raspberry, lemon, almond, vanilla, or other extract or oil for flavouring
• Food colouring
• Cooking spray or vegetable oil
• Candy thermometer
• Parchment paper

Instructions

1. Mix the sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt in a large heavy-bottomed pot, and stir over medium-high heat until all the sugar is completely melted.
2. Transfer this sugar mixture to a large heat-safe bowl.
3. Dip the tines of the whisk into the mixture, and quickly drizzle the thinning sugar strands back and forth across the parchment paper until you have a nest of candy strands.

19. Chocolate-dipped Pretzel Rods

Everyone’s favourite pretzel rods are not just but gorgeous too and super easy to make. Let’s take a look at the recipe.

Ingredients

• Pretzel rods
• White candy melts
• Pink and blue candy melts
• Sprinkles and other candy decoration

Instructions

1. Melt all the candy melts.
2. Pour the candy over two-thirds of the pretzel rods and shake them gently to remove the excess.
3. Next, keep the pretzels on waxed paper to cool down.
4. When the pretzels are cooled completely, coat them with another colour.
5. Allow the pretzels to cool down before storing them. Do not refrigerate.

20. Pink and Blue Lemonade

A lemonade makes for a great party drink. You can add it to your gender reveal party by adding a little twist to the regular lemonade. Add a dash of colour to make it a gender reveal drink.

Ingredients

• Lemons
• Water
• Pink food colour
• Blue food colour

Instructions

1. Make some lemonade.
2. Add pink food colour to make the lemonade pink.
3. Add blue food colour to make the lemonade blue.
4. You can also make coloured ice cubes and add them to the lemonade.

21. Coloured Popcorn

Pink and blue popcorn is a great idea to announce the gender of your baby to be.

Ingredients

• Popcorn kernels
• 2 cups sugar
• Water
• Butter
• Pink or blue food colour
• Salt

Instructions

1. Make the popcorn and take them out in a bowl.
2. Add sugar, water, and butter to a pan and boil on medium heat for three minutes.
3. Add food colour and salt to it.
4. Pour the coloured mixture over the popcorn and stir well to coat the popcorn evenly.
5. Spread the popcorn on a baking sheet and dry for about 1–2 hours until the mixture is no longer sticky.
6. Store the popcorn in an airtight container and serve in paper cones.

22. Surprise Cookies

As the name suggests, your guests will be surprised when these genders reveal cookies are on the menu.

Ingredients

• Butter
• Confectioners’ sugar
• Vanilla cream
• Flour
• Toasted and finely chopped pecans, almonds, and walnuts
• Pink or blue candy-coating disks
• Salt

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, take butter, sugar, and vanilla cream and whisk till light and fluffy.
2. In the second bowl, mix flour and salt, and add the creamed mixture in batches.
3. Whisk well, stir in nuts, and refrigerate this for an hour or more.
4. Now, shape the dough into balls and place them on a baking tray.
5. Preheat the oven to about 350 degrees.
6. Insert a candy-coating disk into the centre of every cookie and cover the disk completely.
7. Bake it for 12–15 minutes until the bottoms are light brown.
8. Take confectioners’ sugar and roll the cookies in it while still warm.

23. Marshmallow Pops

Give your guests these super soft and sweet marshmallow pops. They are super easy to make and look pretty.

Ingredients

• Marshmallows
• White chocolate
• Pink or blue food colour
• Lollipop sticks

Instructions

1. Take a lollipop stick and push each into marshmallows.
2. Melt the chocolate and add food colour to it.
3. Leave some white chocolate (melted) for decorations.
4. Now, dip the marshmallows in the melted chocolate and drizzle the rest of the white chocolate on the marshmallows.
5. Cool and serve.

24. Berry Bars

Here are the yummy berry bars that are one of the best ways to announce the gender of your baby.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup butter or shortening
• 1 egg
• 1 pinch salt
• 4 cups raspberries or blueberries
• 3 tsp cornstarch

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees and grease the baking pan.
2. Take one cup of sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, butter, and egg, and whisk everything to make a dough.
3. Pour half of the dough into the baking pan and mix the remaining half cup of sugar, the cornstarch, and the berries.
4. Pour the mixture over the dough into the baking pan.
5. Bake it in the oven for around 45 minutes till the top is golden.

25. Ice Cream Bowls and Cones

Ice cream is one of the great ways to announce your baby’s gender in the summer season. You can even decorate these in the colours of your baby’s sex and enjoy distributing them among guests.

Ingredients

• Wafer ice cream cones and bowls
• White chocolate
• Pink and blue food colour

Instructions

1. Melt the white chocolate and add the food colour of your baby’s gender.
2. Now, dip the wafer cones and cups in the chocolate to cover the rim.
3. Place these on a kitchen towel to cool and set.

26. Sherbet Punch

This is one of the best gender reveal drinks that will surely be a hit at your party. Customise the colour of this sherbet punch, and you are all set with your gender reveal punch.

Ingredients

• Raspberry/strawberry/blueberry ice cream
• Ginger ale
• Frozen raspberries or blueberries

Instructions

1. Scoop some ice cream in a punch bowl and pour ginger ale over the ice cream.
2. Let the drink sit for about ten minutes and let the ice cream melts into the soda.
3. Decorate the sherbet with frozen berries and serve with a straw and a spoon.

27. Cotton Candy Oreo Truffles

Here is the tasty truffle-covered Oreo recipe with pink or blue colour. Just perfect for your gender reveal party.

Ingredients

• Cotton candy Oreos
• Cream cheese
• Blue or pink candy melts

Instructions

1. Put the Oreos in a food processor and pulse them to get a fine powder.
2. Mix the powder with cream cheese till the dough is smooth.
3. Make small balls from the dough and place them on waxed paper.
4. Freeze the truffles for about an hour.
5. Melt the desired candy melts and dip the truffle in it.
6. Place the balls on waxed paper and allow the chocolate to settle.
7. Store in an airtight container and refrigerate until ready to serve.

28. Cookie Dough M&M Truffles

Cookie dough truffles with M&Ms taste delicious and are great to announce the gender of your baby.

Ingredients

• Cookie dough
• Pink or blue M&Ms
• Chocolate

Instructions

1. Roll the cookie dough into mini balls and put M&Ms in them.
2. Freeze these balls for 15 minutes.
3. Melt the chocolate and dip the balls in the chocolate.
4. Decorate with sprinkles.

29. Doughnut Surprise

Everyone loves doughnuts and can be used to reveal the gender of your baby in front of your guests.

Ingredients

• Doughnuts
• Pink or blue chocolate candy

Instructions

1. Melt the chocolate and coat the doughnuts with the chocolate.
2. Decorate the doughnuts with sprinkles.

30. Bite Sizes Pretzels

Small, bite-sized pretzels are a perfect mix of sweet and spicy flavours for your gender reveal party.

Ingredients

• Pretzels
• White chocolate
• Pink or blue food colours
• Sprinkles

Instructions

1. Melt the chocolate and mix the food colour in it
2. Dip the pretzels in the chocolate and place them on waxed paper to cool down.

What Can Be Done With the Foods That Don’t Fit the Colour Theme of Pink or Blue?

If your food does not fit the colour theme of pink and blue for gender reveal dessert ideas or food ideas, you can;

• Add pink or blue gems of sprinklers on the top.
• Add pink or blue food colour to them.
• You can serve the food in a pink or blue dish.
• You can keep pink or blue coloured tissues to the same.

Gender reveal parties are great to bond with friends and family members and you can make these parties or get-togethers more fun and exciting with some of these amazing food or pumpkin gender reveal ideas.

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