Surprise Inside Independence Cake

Surprise Inside Independence Cake takes roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes from beginning to end. This dessert has 1358 calories, 7g of protein, and 68g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up vegetable oil, butter, salt, and a few other things to make it today. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Chocolate Bread Pudding With Pears Surprise, Ultimate "Surprise" Oreo N' Chocolate Chip Cookie Fudge Brownie Cups, and slurpy surprise.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray 3 9-inch cake pans with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

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Oven

In a large bowl, beat the cake mix, instant pudding mix, water, vegetable oil, and eggs together with an electric mixer to form a smooth batter. Divide the batter equally into 3 smaller bowls; tint one bowl to your desired shade of red, and one to your desired shade of blue.

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Cake Mix

Vegetable Oil

Water

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Pour each bowl into a prepared cake pan.

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Cake Form

Bowl

Bake in the preheated oven until the cakes are set and a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 10 to 15 minutes. The cakes will start to pull away from the sides of the pans when done.

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Toothpicks

Oven

Remove the cakes, allow to cool for about 10 minutes in the pans, and then turn out onto 3 separate pieces of plastic wrap set onto a work surface to finish cooling.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

While the cakes are cooling, beat the butter-flavored shortening, butter, salt, and imitation vanilla extract in a large bowl with an electric mixer until creamy.

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Artificial Vanilla

Shortening

Butter

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Mix in 1 cup of confectioners' sugar at a time, beating in each cup well before adding the next.

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Powdered Sugar

Mix in the cream, 1 or 2 tablespoons at a time, until the frosting is smooth and spreadable.

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Frosting

Cream

To decorate, lift the red layer using the plastic wrap, and gently turn over and place onto a cake plate.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Remove plastic wrap. Generously frost the top of the red cake, then place the blue cake on top. Frost the blue layer, then top with the white cake; use remaining frosting to frost the top and sides of the cake.

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Frosting

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap