Independence Day Recipes

Firecracker Red, White and Blue Cake

Firecracker Red, White and Blue Cake makes a stunning presentation for your Independence Day dessert.

Firecracker Red, White and Blue Cake

Prep: 20 min | Yield: 12 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® white cake mix
  • Water, vegetable oil and egg whites called for on cake mix box
  • Red food color
  • Blue food color
  • 1 (12 ounce) container Betty Crocker® Whipped fluffy white frosting

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease a 12 cup fluted tube cake pan.
  2. Make cake batter as directed on box, using water, oil and egg whites.
  3. Pour 1 cup of the batter into small bowl; stir in red food color until well mixed.
  4. Pour another cup of the batter into separate bowl; stir in blue food color until well mixed.
  5. Pour red cake batter into bottom of pan.
  6. Carefully pour remaining white batter over red batter in pan.
  7. Carefully pour blue batter over white batter. (Blue batter does not need to cover white batter completely; it looks better if it just forms a ring in the center of the white batter..
  8. Bake as directed on box or until a wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean.
  9. Cool cake for 5 minutes.
  10. Meanwhile, place cooling rack over cookie sheet. Turn pan upside down onto cooling rack. Cool cake completely, about 30 minutes.
  11. When cake is cool, divide frosting evenly into 3 microwavable bowls.
  12. Microwave 1 bowl of frosting uncovered on HIGH for a few seconds until smooth enough to drizzle over cake. With spoon, drizzle all of white frosting back and forth around cake in a striping pattern.
  13. Repeat microwaving second bowl of frosting until smooth. Stir in a few drops blue food color until well blended. Drizzle over cake, scattering frosting back and forth.
  14. Repeat with remaining bowl of frosting and red food color, making sure red, white and blue frostings can be seen on cake.
  15. Let cake stand at room temperature until frosting is set before serving.

Notes

Expert Tips:

When you add the batter to the pan, do not mix with a spoon. Just pour it in so the colors don’t mix but rather, just rest on top of each other in the pan.

Store loosely covered at room temperature.

Cake can be made a day or two in advance.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: Betty Crocker Kitchens
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