Fire Cracker Red, White and Blue Cake (Betty Crocker)
photo by naydawn
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 1 (18 1/4 ounce) white cake mix (the recipe called for Betty Crocker Super Moist white cake mix)
- 1 1⁄4 cups warm water
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 egg whites
- red food coloring
- blue food coloring
- 1 (12 ounce) container white frosting (the recipe called for Betty Crocker Whipped frosting)
- red food coloring
- blue food coloring
directions
- Heat oven to 325.
- Generously grease a 12 cup fluted tube cake pan.
- Combine cake mix, water, vegetable oil and egg whites according to cake mix package directions.
- Pour 1 cup of batter into a separate bowl. Gradually add red food color a few drops at a time and mix thoroughly until it is a nice, red color.
- Pour 1 cup of batter into a separate bowl. Gradually add blue food color a few drops at a time and mix thoroughly until it is a nice, blue color.
- Pour red cake batter into bottom of pan.
- Carefully pour remaining white batter over red batter in pan.
- 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.).
- Bake as directed on box or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and cool cake for 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile, place cooling rack over cookie sheet. Turn pan upside down so cake winds up on the cooling rack.
- Cool cake completely, about 30 minutes.
- When cake is cool, divide frosting evenly into 3 microwavable bowls.
- Microwave 1 bowl of frosting uncovered on High 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.
- 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.
- Repeat with remaining bowl of frosting and red food color, making sure red, white and blue frostings can be seen on cake.
- Let cake stand at room temperature until frosting is set before serving.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
PSU Lioness
Coal Township, Pennsylvania
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