American Flag Cake

Name: American Flag Cake
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp blue food coloring; 9 egg whites; 2 liters fluffy white frosting; 2 Tbsps red food coloring; 2 Tbsps clear vanilla extract; 237 milliliters vegetable oil; 872 grams packages white cake mix; 237 milliliters white chocolate chips; 2 Tbsps white sugar, or as needed; 887 milliliters whole milk; 1 4-inch round paper or cardboard stencil

You can never have too many American recipes, so give American Flag Cake If you have vegetable oil, sugar, fluffy frosting, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It will be a hit at your The Fourth Of July event. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 3 hours. American Flag Cake, American Flag Cake, and American Flag Cake are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and line 4 8-inch round cake pans with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Oven

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.

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Vanilla Extract

White Cake Mix

Vegetable Oil

Egg Whites

Milk

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Hand Mixer

Mixing Bowl

Blender

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.

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Red Food Color

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Spatula

Whisk

Bowl

Transfer half of the remaining uncolored batter into a 3rd prepared cake pan; smooth top as before. This will be the white cake portion.

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Cake Form

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.

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White Chocolate Chips

Blue Food Color

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Mixing Bowl

Transfer batter to remaining prepared 8-inch cake pan; smooth top of batter with a spatula.

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Cake Form

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.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove the cakes from oven and place onto cooling racks until cooled completely.

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Oven

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.

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Baking Paper

Knife

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.

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Frosting

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Cake Form

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.

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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.

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Frosting

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Bowl

Knife

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.

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White Chocolate Chips

Sprinkle white sugar generously into the white stripes to make them stand out.

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Granulated Sugar

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.

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White Chocolate

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Servings:

1Tbsp

blue food coloring 9

egg whites 2liters

fluffy white frosting 2Tbsps

red food coloring 2Tbsps

clear vanilla extract 237milliliters

vegetable oil 872grams

packages white cake mix 237milliliters

white chocolate chips 2Tbsps

white sugar, or as needed 887milliliters

whole milk 1

4-inch round paper or cardboard stencil

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Port, Moscato Dasti

Cake works really well with Cream Sherry, Port, and Moscato d'Asti. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. One wine you could try is NV Solera Cream Sherry. It has 4.5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 17 dollars.

NV Solera Cream Sherry

The Solera Cream Sherry has a brilliant amber and deep copper hue. With butterscotch and pecan aromas, the sweet salted nut and brown spice aromas carry a complex caramel accent. A sweet entry leads to a rounded, lush, moderately full-bodied palate with a lengthy, flavorful finish.