19 Creative Gender Reveal Food Ideas (2024)
- Date: July 14, 2024
- Topic: Events
- Contributors: Written by Peerspace Staff
Source: Peerspace
From birthday parties to anniversary dinners, planning what kind of food will be served is one of the most important elements. And gender reveal parties are no exception. In some ways, it’s even harder since you’ll want options that are blue, pink, or both colors! That’s why we at Peerspace have put together this list of gender reveal food ideas. Dishes and snacks that are both sweet and savory find a place here, so take a moment to browse this list for some creative possibilities!
1. Gender reveal cake
Start your list of gender reveal food ideas with a cake that brings the question to the fore! A cake with a mixture of pink and blue frosting on the outside will have guests smiling as they continue to wonder what the final reveal will be. Once you cut the cake, a flood of candies with the blue or pink interior will accompany the answer! Check out this recipe; it’s one of the more involved food ideas we have here but look at how beautiful it is!
2. Hot chocolate bar
Since gender reveal parties tend to be sweets-heavy, choose a drink to match! How about a hot chocolate bar with toppings and candy? From peppermint sticks to colored whipped cream, you can have a drink bar that no one’s going to turn down. A hot chocolate bar is the perfect option for a fall or winter gender reveal party to warm away the chill!
Along with the drinks, think about a venue that’s easy to decorate and comes with loads of amenities. Peerspace has hundreds of wonderful venues to choose from for a baby shower, gender reveal, or other life milestone. A brightly lit event space in the University District of Seattle, WA, is just one of our many options!
3. Pink and blue-dipped Oreos
If you want a gender reveal food idea that’s more of a snack than a full plate, how about making some dipped Oreos? The cookies are easy enough to buy; all you need is pink and blue frosting to dip them in. You can make them even more fabulous with frosting drizzle, sprinkles, and other additions!
4. Cake pops
From gender reveals to birthday parties, there are few special events where frosting-dipped cake pops won’t be welcome. Besides the cake mix and the ingredients it requires, you only need three or four additional ingredients. So don’t bother buying them from a bakery when you can have the satisfaction of making your own cake pops for a fraction of the price.
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5. Chocolate-dipped pretzel rods
Pretzel rods dipped in colored chocolate are another easy yet decorative gender reveal party snack that you can have ready in just a few minutes! The crunch of the pretzels is a nice departure from all of the soft cake and cookies. Plus they’re salty, which goes so well with sweet! Follow this recipe for delicious gender reveal chocolate dipped pretzel rods.
6. Gender reveal Krispy Kreme donuts
Did you know that many Krispy Kreme outlets take custom orders for donuts? You have to buy at least two dozen but that’s barely enough for a crowded gender reveal party. Give them a call a day or two in advance and ask for donuts frosted in the theme color of the party. Hot and fresh Krispy Kreme donuts won’t last long at the snack table!
7. Cotton candy Blue Bell ice cream
Ice cream is the perfect topping for a beautiful gender reveal cake (see above). But don’t go with boring old vanilla; not when you could have a luscious cotton candy-flavored ice cream instead! Best of all, Blue Bell’s Cotton Candy ice cream is pink and blue colored, making it a perfect gender reveal food idea.
8. Chocolate dipped strawberries
Gender reveal food ideas should be as decorative as they are delicious, something chocolate-dipped strawberries are excellent at! If your local store only has brown chocolate-dipped strawberries, make your own instead! Pink and/or blue frosting or candy melt is easy to come by. Plus you can add colored drizzle or sprinkles for an even prettier party treat!
9. Blueberry & cranberry bagel board
A bagel board has a lot of possibilities! You can add all kinds of colored spreads like cream cheese or jams that are blue and pink. Like a charcuterie or cheese board, you can also include extras, like candy, cheese, crackers, and berries. Make sure the bagels you choose are colored the appropriate hue for the upcoming party and you’re off to a great start.
10. Pink & blue fruit punch
Fruit punch is an easy gender reveal food idea for the drinks table. After all, you only need pink and blue ingredients for each punch option! A pink lemonade, cherry, strawberry, or raspberry punch is one idea. For a blue gender reveal, think about blue lemonade, raspberry, or blueberry punch recipes!
11. Baby footprint sugar cookies
Is there any gender reveal snack more adorable than cookies with baby footprints on them? You’ll want actual footprints as a memorabilia item once the birth happens but start celebrating now with these footprint sugar cookies! Don’t forget a footprint cookie cutter to make them perfect!
12. Personalized M&Ms
Like Krispy Kreme, the Mars company is all about making snacks that find a place at a party snack table! Did you know that they make blue and pink M&Ms that are perfect for a baby shower or gender reveal? You can buy them in both peanut and plain flavored, as well as in bulk bags or individually wrapped smaller bags for gender reveal game party favors!
13. Colored popcorn
Popcorn is a party snack that can find a place at any table…But how do we make it the right color for a gender reveal party when we can’t dye it? All you need is colored chocolate, candy, or marshmallow drizzle. Try this recipe using sugar and butter that you can dye blue or pink for colorful and fun gender reveal popcorn!
14. Pink & blue deviled eggs
How about something savory to balance out all of the sweet? Deviled eggs are a traditional food for baby showers, gender reveals, family reunions, and other events! All you need to do is cook the hard-boiled eggs beforehand in colored water! The whites will pick up the blue or pink dye. From there, follow a standard recipe for deviled eggs, using salt, paprika, and other seasonings for the fluffy yolks.
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15. Blue & pink potato salad
Potato salad doesn’t have to be a boring-looking table snack that no one touches. Not when you can make your own gender reveal potato salad using colored spuds! You won’t even need food dye, since blue potato salad can be made using authentic blue potatoes! The pink potato salad will need a little help to hit the right color, which this recipe uses beetroot for.
16. Watermelon berry fruit salad
Sweet, cold watermelon and plump, juicy berries…What better summer party combination could there be? Bring red and blue together into a single bowl by making watermelon berry fruit salad! The recipe calls for a little honey and lime, which adds both sweetness and tang to the salad for an even punchier result.
Once the salad is mixed, take it to the well-chosen party venue you’ve already decorated! What’s that, you haven’t decided on where to host the party? Well, let us at Peerspace give you a hand! We have all kinds of gender reveal venues near you. This affordable and spacious Chicago event venue with room for up to 50 guests is just one example!
17. Colored-in Hershey’s chocolate bars
Hershey’s chocolate bars are a classic treat that might look a little out of place at a gender reveal table. But you’re going to get creative with these by coloring in the “HE” and “SHE” on the wrappers with blue and pink markers! Now you have an instant gender reveal candy bar that looks amazing!
18. Dipped rice crispy treats
Rice crispy treats are a snack that stretches back several generations. Who among us hasn’t had one or more for a birthday, sleepover, or family gathering? All you need to do is follow the official recipe for rice crispy treats. Once you’re finished dip them in candy melt or colored molten marshmallows for an instant gender reveal good idea.
19. Pink & blue cotton candy
Few snacks are as instantly gender reveal party-ready as cotton candy. After all, pink and blue are the colors it usually comes in! Pick up some bags of cotton candy here that come prepackaged and spun onto a stick for an instant party treat!
Gender reveal food ideas: conclusion
As you can see, there are dozens of ways to make snacks that are colorful and flavorful for a gender reveal party. From savory options like deviled eggs to custom-made M&Ms, we hope our list of gender reveal food ideas has inspired you! While you are here, let Peerspace inspire you further by showing off some of the wonderful gender reveal-perfect event venues near you we have!
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