Sparkling Fourth of July Cake

Name: Sparkling Fourth of July Cake
Prep time: 2 h 20 min
Cook time: 2 h 20 min
Total time: 2 h 20 min
Yield: 15
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons red food color; 1 Tbsp Betty Crocker® blue sugar; 2 Tbsps Betty Crocker® red sugar; 1 container Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white or whipped cream frosting; 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® white cake mix; 15 servings Fourth of July candles

Sparkling Fourth of July Cake might be a good recipe to expand your dessert recipe box. This recipe serves 15. One serving contains 138 calories, 1g of protein, and 1g of fat. It will be a hit at your The Fourth Of July event. If you have sugar, food color, whipped cream frosting, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Spray bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with baking spray with flour.

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Baking Spray

All Purpose Flour

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Oven

Frying Pan

Place paper baking cup in 1 regular-size muffin cup.

Make cake batter as directed on box. In small bowl, place 1/2 cup batter; stir in red food color. In another small bowl, place 1/2 cup batter; stir in blue food color.

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Red Food Color

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Bowl

Fill muffin cup 2/3 full with white batter; set aside.

Pour remaining white batter into 13x9-inch pan. Randomly drop generous teaspoonfuls of red and blue batters over white batter in pan. For swirled design, cut through batters with knife in S-shaped curves in one continuous motion; turn pan one-fourth turn and repeat.

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Knife

Frying Pan

Place muffin pan and cake pan in oven.

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Muffin Tray

Cake Form

Oven

Bake muffin cup 12 to 13 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean; place pan on cooling rack. Continue baking 13x9-inch cake 14 to 18 minutes longer or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 10 minutes.

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Wire Rack

Toothpicks

Oven

Frying Pan

Remove cake and cupcake from pans to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

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Cupcakes

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Wire Rack

Reserve 2 tablespoons frosting. Frost cake with remaining frosting. In upper left-hand corner of cake, lightly score 5x3 1/2-inch rectangle in frosting for blue area of flag; sprinkle with blue sugar.

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Frosting