Red, White, and Blue Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 27
- Yields:
-
8 slices
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
-
RED CAKE
- 1 3⁄4 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup light brown sugar (use if you want a sweeter bread)
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1⁄2 cups strawberries, fresh & coarsely chopped
- 3 -5 drops red food coloring
-
BLUE CAKE
- 1 3⁄4 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup light brown sugar (use if you want a sweeter bread)
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1⁄2 cup sour cream, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 1⁄2 cups fresh blueberries
- 3 -5 drops blue food coloring
- vanilla frosting
directions
- *Make the red and blue cakes separately. It may be easier for you to make one and then make the other one while the first one is in the oven.
- Set the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; set aside.
- In small bowl, beat butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beat 1 minute or until light and airy. Add brown sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in sour cream, vanilla, and food coloring.
- Stir into flour mixture only until dry ingredients are moistened.
- Fold in strawberries and nuts.
- Pour into a greased cake tin.
- Bake for 60 to 65 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. If strawberries had alot of juice in them, up to 15 minutes more bake time may be required.
- Let stand 10 minutes in pan.
- Turn out on rack to cool.
- Repeat steps 3 - 10 for second cake, only with different fruit (if you used strawberry the first time, use blueberry for the second cake).
- When both cakes are cool, frost blue cake entirely with the vanilla frosting, place the red cake on top, and cover entirely in frosting. Or vice versa :).
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