Indulge in the spirit of patriotism with our delectable American Flag Cake, a culinary masterpiece that captures the essence of the United States. This red, white, and blue delight is a perfect centerpiece for any patriotic gathering, whether it's a 4th of July barbecue, Memorial Day celebration, or a simple show of national pride. With its moist and fluffy cake layers, creamy frosting, and vibrant colors, this cake is sure to impress your taste buds and leave a lasting impression. Our collection of recipes includes variations for all skill levels, from a classic layered cake with homemade frosting to a simpler sheet cake with store-bought frosting. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, we've got you covered. So, gather your ingredients, preheat your oven, and let's embark on a culinary journey that pays homage to the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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ALL-AMERICAN FLAG CAKE
Great for Memorial Day or the 4th of July!
Provided by Bernice Dray
Categories Desserts Cakes Cake Mix Cake Recipes Yellow Cake
Time 3h35m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
- Stir yellow cake mix, 1 cup water, vegetable oil, and eggs in a mixing bowl until moistened; beat with a mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
- Bake cake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack. Poke holes about 1 inch apart all over the cake with a fork.
- Dissolve strawberry gelatin in boiling water in a bowl and pour gelatin slowly over the cake, letting gelatin seep into holes. Refrigerate cake until gelatin sets, about 1 hour. Transfer cake to a serving platter and cut in half horizontally.
- Mix instant vanilla pudding mix with milk in a bowl and whisk until thickened, about 2 minutes; stir in 1/2 cup blueberries. Spread blueberry filling onto bottom of cake and place top of cake over the filling. Spread 2 cups whipped topping smoothly over top and sides of cake and arrange 1/2 cup blueberries in a square in the upper left corner of the cake for stars. Arrange alternating layers of strawberries and miniature marshmallows into horizontal red and white stripes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 408.9 calories, Carbohydrate 58.2 g, Cholesterol 49.8 mg, Fat 17.8 g, Fiber 1.2 g, Protein 5.6 g, SaturatedFat 6.6 g, Sodium 467.9 mg, Sugar 40.1 g
AMERICAN FLAG CAKE
Unfurl the red, white, and blue with this beautiful, easy, and patriotic flag cake perfect for the 4th of July, Memorial Day, or any favorite occasion. Assemble and frost the pretty cake and wait for the oohs and ahhs!
Provided by Allrecipes
Categories Desserts Cakes Cake Mix Cake Recipes Layer Cake
Time 3h
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and line 4 8-inch round cake pans with parchment paper.
- Combine white cake mix, egg whites, vegetable oil, milk, and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl. Beat for 30 seconds using an electric mixer on low speed. Increase mixer speed to medium and beat for 2 more minutes. The batter will still be slightly lumpy.
- To make the red cakes, measure half the batter into a separate bowl and whisk in red food coloring. Evenly transfer the red batter into 2 of the 8-inch prepared cake pans; smooth tops of batter with a spatula. Transfer half of the remaining uncolored batter into a 3rd prepared cake pan; smooth top as before. This will be the white cake portion.
- Add blue food coloring to the remaining uncolored batter in the large mixing bowl; fold 1 cup white chocolate chips into blue batter until combined. Transfer batter to remaining prepared 8-inch cake pan; smooth top of batter with a spatula.
- Bake all 4 cakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Remove the cakes from oven and place onto cooling racks until cooled completely.
- Run a knife around edge of each cooled cake. Invert cakes, remove pans, and peel off parchment paper. Use a sharp knife to trim tops of cakes flat and even.
- Cut both of the red cake layers and the white cake layer in half horizontally. You will have 4 thin red cake layers and 2 thin white cake layers.
- Place a 4-inch round stencil on top of 1 thin red cake layer; cut out a 4-inch red cake round. Repeat, placing stencil on 1 thin white cake layer to make 1 4-inch white cake round. Center the 4-inch round stencil on the blue cake; cut out and remove center portion covered by the stencil to make a blue cake ring.
- To assemble the cake, you will need 2 thin 8-inch red cake layers, 1 thin 8-inch white cake layer, 1 4-inch thin red cake circle, 1 4-inch thin white cake circle, and 1 blue 8-inch cake ring. Reserve the leftover thin red cake layer and other cake pieces for making crumbs for decorating.
- To assemble cake, place 1 8-inch thin red cake layer on a cake pan and frost the top generously with white frosting. Place the thin 8-inch white cake layer on top of the red one, and frost the top. Place remaining 8-inch thin red cake layer atop the white one. Frost the red layer.
- Place the blue ring cake on top of the 2nd red cake layer and carefully frost the inside of the blue cake ring. Gently fit the 4-inch white cake layer into the blue cake ring. Frost the top of the 4-inch white center. Place the 4-inch red cake layer on top of the white one. Gently press small cake circles flush with the top of the blue ring.
- Frost the entire outside of the cake generously with the remaining frosting.
- Crumble red and blue pieces of leftover cake into 2 separate bowls. Score lines into the top of the cake's frosting with a kitchen knife to make a flag design on top of the cake. It should have a 2-inch square at the upper left for blue field and white stars, and 7 thick horizontal stripes about 1 inch wide.
- Fill the square field at the upper left with blue crumbs and press 1 tablespoon white chocolate chips upside-down into the blue crumbs to make 'stars.' Fill the bottom stripe and every other stripe with red crumbs to make red stripes. Sprinkle white sugar generously into the white stripes to make them stand out.
- To serve, cut cake into wedges. The inside of the cake will reveal its layers of red and white stripes and blue field with white chocolate chip stars in every slice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1110 calories, Carbohydrate 214.7 g, Cholesterol 8.2 mg, Fat 25.6 g, Fiber 0.5 g, Protein 10.6 g, SaturatedFat 6.6 g, Sodium 768.7 mg, Sugar 200.9 g
AMERICAN FLAG SHEET CAKE
Moist chocolate sheet cake smothered in vanilla buttercream and decorated with berries. This festive flag cake is as cute as it is delicious. The cake itself is already vegan; the buttercream can easily be made vegan too!
Provided by Kare for Kitchen Treaty
Time 55m
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 13" x 18" rimmed baking sheet - spray with your favorite non-stick spray or wipe down with a bit of oil.
- In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Stir with a whisk or a wooden spoon to combine.
- Using the back of a wooden spoon, make three indents in the flour mixture. Into one indent, pour the vanilla. Into the second, pour the vinegar. Into the third, add the oil. Pour the water over the top. Stir well until combined.
- Spread the batter in the baking sheet and, using an offset spatula, spread the batter to the edges of the pan, making it as level as possible. Bake for 14-17 minutes; until the sides have pulled away from the edge a bit and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Pull the cake out of the oven and set on a wire rack to cool completely.
- While the cake cools, make the buttercream frosting. Using a stand mixer or hand mixer, whip the butter until smooth. Add a cup of powdered sugar and mix in at low speed. Add remaining powdered sugar, a cup at a time, and mix until smooth. Add the vanilla and the milk. Mix until smooth and an easily spreadable consistency. If too thick, add more milk - just a teaspoon at a time, as it thins out easily. If too thin, add more powdered sugar.
- Once the cake is completely cool, frost it with the buttercream - simply smooth it all over the top in a thin, even layer.
- Now, it's time to decorate! Visually divide the cake into thirds and, in the top third, fill in with rows of blueberries. Add rows of halved strawberries next; the amount of stripes depends on the size of your strawberries, so just eyeball it, and if you need to adjust the berries, you can use the tip of the offset spatula or the tip of a spoon to create stripes in between the rows of berries.
- Serve as soon as possible; it can be made ahead of time, but the strawberries will probably start to leak after awhile, so keep that in mind.
AMERICAN FLAG CAKE
Wow! Red, white and blue cake just in time for the Fourth! What could say America better than this? Lots of prep involved but well worth it for the effect it has! Recipe: allrecipes.com Photo: Bettycrocker.com 06-07-14
Provided by Ellen Bales
Categories Cakes
Time 2h
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- 1. Combine cake mixes, egg whites, oil, milk, and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl. Using an electric mixer on low speed, beat for 30 seconds. Increase mixer speed to medium and beat for 2 more minutes. The batter will be slightly lumpy.
- 2. Measure half of batter into a separate bowl and whisk in red food coloring. Divide red batter among 2 of the prepared pans (4 greased 8-inch round cake pans lined with parchment paper); smooth tops with spatula. Transfer half of white batter into the third prepared cake pan; smooth top. Whisk blue food coloring into remaining batter; transfer to remaining prepared pan, and smooth top.
- 3. Bake cakes in a preheated 350º oven until a toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Set pans on racks and cool completely.
- 4. Run a knife around edge of each cooled cake. Invert cakes, remove pans, and peel off parchment paper. Trim tops of cakes flat and even. Cut red and white cakes in half horizontally to make 4 thin red-cake layers and 2 thin white-cake layers.
- 5. Using stencil as a guide, cut out 4-inch rounds from centers of blue cake, 1 thin white layer, and 1 thin red layer. Set aside an 8-inch white ring, 4-inch blue round, 8-inch red ring, and 1 thin red layer for another use. Or crumble them into separate bowls and use to decorate outside of finished cake, if desired.
- 6. On a cake plate, layer 1 thin red layer, 1 thin white layer, 1 thin red layer, and thick blue ring. Frost top of each layer before adding next layer. Carefully frost inside of blue cake ring. Gently fit thin 4-inch white round into blue ring, and frost top. Set thin 4-inch red round layer on top of white one; gently press flush with top of blue ring. Frost top and sides of cake generously with remaining frosting.
- 7. If desired, sprinkle stripes or star patterns on top of cake using reserved cake crumbs. Chill cake 1 hour for easiest slicing.
- 8. You may skip the white cake layer and just do all red and blue. The white frosting acts as the white stripes. Make sure cake is cooled COMPLETELY before serving or it will crumble when sliced.
Tips:
- Before starting, ensure all ingredients are at room temperature, allowing them to blend seamlessly and produce a smooth batter.
- Use high-quality butter and cream cheese for a rich, creamy texture.
- Sift the flour to remove any lumps and achieve a light and airy cake.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients to avoid overmixing and a dense cake.
- Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans for uniform baking.
- Bake the cakes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cakes to cool completely before frosting to prevent the frosting from melting.
- Use a serrated knife to cut the cakes, preventing ragged edges.
- Keep the frosted cake refrigerated to maintain its shape and freshness.
Conclusion:
In celebration of patriotic events or special occasions, the American Flag Cake emerges as a delightful and visually stunning dessert. With its vibrant red, white, and blue layers, this cake embodies the spirit of unity and pride. The combination of moist cake, creamy frosting, and fresh berries creates a symphony of flavors and textures that will tantalize taste buds. Whether enjoyed as a centerpiece at a gathering or as a sweet treat at home, the American Flag Cake promises an unforgettable culinary experience, capturing the essence of both celebration and national pride.
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