I love the colors of Red, White, and Blue… and love being able to incorporate them into a cake!
I especially love being able to celebrate this great nation of ours.
This design is pretty old school, as my close personal friend Buddy the Cake Boss likes to say.
And when I say close personal friend you know I mean total stranger.
Just sayin.
This is all vanilla frosting. The hard to distinguish black border around the star is my glaze icing. (the icing I use in place of royal icing)
The blue border and white bottom border is just piped stars… very Wilton old school. Which is really all ‘new’ school to me since I just started doing this about a year ago.
I wanted to add a fun detail to the top… I just piped out a design I saw in our local newspaper last week.
Thats all, thanks for coming by!
Oh, I’m kidding.
You know I cant make a cake without something weird inside.
A flag Surprise Inside Cake!
In all honesty… I think I overshot the basket on this one.
In the future I would make the internal flag cake, but with little to no decoration on the outside. Or, make the decoration on the outside, but just do white or red velvet on the inside.
I found this cake to be just a bit to busy. My dear hubby disagreed, but I think he is just such a cheerleader for my baking he was being kind. 
If you want to add some patriotic spirit to your July 4th but dont
want to tackle a cake, you can also try out these super easy and fun pancakes!
Or cupcakes.
Or fruit sheet cake. The possibilities are endless!
*My apologies! I am always so adamant about giving proper credit where it is due… forgive me for not doing so earlier! A similar designed interior of this cake was originally published by the hugely talented gal over at 17 and Baking, even though I came up with the idea and design on my own.
OMGOSH! How in the world did you do that? I’ve never seen anything quite so spectacular before!!! You need to send this over to Martha Stewart (run don’t walk) or someother big food guru and show this puppy off and get some big kudos for it! This has now catapulted you into star status in my eyes Amanda (not that you were far off before). Simply AMAZING!!!!!!
I don’t think it’s too busy at all. My Dad would go nuts over this cake!
Hehe you saw my flag cake, right? It was totally awesome, until I realized what I’d written on top… http://www.beckibakes.com/?s=flag+cake
Oh, Amanda! This is STUNNING!!! I’m calling my husband over to the computer right now so he can be ashamed of his wife who calls herself a “baker.” Um….you NEED a bakery. You are the NEXT Cake Boss….bossette…something.
You are an amazing baker! I am always so happy to see your cakes and the lovely surprises ! Thanks for sharing! Happy 4th of July!!
Wonderful job – again! Love the inside. You are insanely talented – keep it up.
LOVE it all…. I thought the picture on the cake was spectacular….definitely not too busy!!! And the inside….well it just makes my mind boggle even trying to figure out HOW you do that!! You are amazing and I always look forward to your posts!
How on earth do you make these wonderful creations?! I know I sound like a broken record, but I am just blown away.
Freakishly Festive
Ok, not so freakish, I just like to have to words with the same letter when describing something LOL yep, I’m a weirdo! Well done. I love it.
You still have time before the 4th, how about a cake with fireworks inside?
Whoa!! The inside of this cake is amazing! Fantastic work!
What an amazing cake!! I love seeing the flag when you cut into the cake and the outer decorations are lovely. You amaze me!
That is a great cake. I never get to make many fun 4th of July desserts because my daughters birthday is the 3rd so we have birthday cake instead. Maybe one year she will pick a patriotic theme.
That is gorgeous!! I don’t think it is too much at all – in fact it is always so much fun to see what is inside of your cakes!! I wish I could make one of these for my family – it’s a beautiful cake for a fun holiday!! As always, I can’t wait to see what you share with us next!
That is so damn impressive! How’d it taste???
I totally agree with the hubby! Not too busy at all. I love this! You are awesome!!
Shut up! that is the most AWESOME thing I have EVER SEEn!!
AWESOME CAKE……….I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!
O.K. Amanda ~ this one really takes the cake! You are so gifted in your creative baking talents. WOW is about all I can say for this one WOW!
If you can’t be over the top on the 4th of July, when can you be?? This is a cake that screams firecrackers and picnics.
You did a super job with Uncle Sam and the red white and blue motif is smashing. But then when you cut into it, I laughed out loud. I LOVE IT! Darn, I wish I was clever enough to make something like this. No, not asking for “yes you cans” I know I can’t!
I love it! I saw the cake and clicked on the post JUST to see what you put inside!
I personally don’t think it’s too busy with the inside and outside….cause when you see the inside, the outside is already shrinking from being cut! 
Ha ha, I have the whole thing over here if you want 2 day old cake. Its all yours girl!
I don’t think it’s too busy at all! Though it WOULD have seemed a lot more stylised if the outside was just plain. Plain white, with some cryptic message on top (or maybe just “USA”) and then the inside… WHAM! Awesome.
I wonder if there’s any kind of white candy that you could mix into the blue batter so that it would look like stars? That would be beyond awesome.
Wei-Wei
I don’t think its too busy at all. Another great design!
I adore this cake! You are so creative! The design is awesome befitting the occasion! I think it’s a wonderful cake design both outside and inside..it’s soo cool!
Wow!!! Again, you continue to amaze me!!! I love getting your updates and so enjoy seeing your wonderful creations!!! Keep ‘em coming! Hope all is well with you and yours! Hugs!
Oh Betsy Ross! You’ve out Americanned yourself! I think Buddy would be proud…and I know that because we’re besties…er not.. Wow! Bet it tastes fabulous!
this came out GORGEOUS ! i’m jealous of your cake skills . love the innards !
much love ! <3
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Awesome!!!
Love it Amanda!! You always are so creative…how do you think these things up? I think you need to host an Amanda’s Creations blogger party…you do all the baking of your amazing creations and then us bloggy friends will come and roast your work and tell you how awesome you are!!
What do you think. I realize it means you are stuck doing all the work for your own party but that is a sacrafice we are all willing to make! 
haha
Seriously though….I am amazed once again! Have a great weekend!
Kristin
OH MY WORD!!! How on EARTH do you continue to awe me?!!! Amanda you are AMAZING!!! this is incredible……..makes the cupcakes I was going to make seem like kids play! lol
Yay!!!
It is perfect. Beautiful before you cut it and after.
WOW! WOW!!! WOW!!! It is perfection! Don’t do anything differently! The inside is AWESOME!! I think that is my favorite ever of all the “design on the inside” cakes you’ve ever done! I love it! You’ve totally inspired me to do a red, white, and blue cake next week! I don’t think I can manage the flag thing (although I might have to try!), but I can do layers or something! That is fantastic.
That is totally awesome!!!! I love the outside but, the inside is over the top…looks like alot of work…was it???
Fantastic cake, Amanda!
As soon as the email update came through I was hoping for something fancy inside and you didn’t disappoint!
I love patriotism food. And this is absolutely awesome Amanda! I do not think you over did it. It looks beautiful. I am honestly going to try my hand at making this cake. It would be a wonderful dessert for the 4th of July. Or even Veterans or Memorial Day. You have been blessed with such talent and I appreciate you sharing it with us. May God bless you and your family.
I don’t think you overshot the basket at all. It looks absolutely fabulous to me. I love the multicoloured sponges you do and the patterns and designs you make with them. Why shouldn’t the inside of the cake look every bit as fabulous as the outside?!!
This is so creative! Great job!
AManda! Could you be any more awesome??????
This is truly amazing! As soon as I saw the outside decorations I knew for sure you were going to WOW us with something creative on the inside too! What a unique cake for a 4th of July celebration!
Wow, I love it! You think the outside looks nice then bam, you’re blown away by the inside even more. I wouldn’t change a thing, the slices look amazing. Great work!
That is a neat cake! I just started decorating my own cakes recently and really enjoy doing it- hopefully I will get to be as good as you soon!
I just wish we could taste through the internet!
Oh Amanda…imagine me having to pick my jaw up off the floor as I’m scrolling down….SURPRISE…check out the inside!!! Great cake – TFS!
So creative – great cake!
Awesome cake!! Love the stripes-looks so cool:)
perfect. not only would i never have thought to do this, i wouldn’t have the slightest idea how to accomplish it. bravo.
also, i love the goatee.
You know, a couple days ago I was watching that America’s Got Talent show with my parents, and there was some chick on there that rolled herself around in paint and then rolled around on a sheet to make an American flag. Only it was really really really really really really really terribad. I mean it was painful and embarassing just to watch. I felt sorry for her.
All that is leading up to – DEAR GOD NOW *THIS* IS THE WAY YOU MAKE AN AMERICAN FLAG IN AN ORIGINAL AND INSPIRING WAY, PEOPLE. This is so awesome. I’m Canadian, but I feel the need to salute this totally awesome cake*.
*Disclaimer: Writer may or may not tend to stand at attention and salute any or all cake that comes her way. Writer may or may not consider ‘salute’ to mean ‘attack with a fork’.
I’ve been brainstorming a similar cake (flag design when cut into) and now I don’t have to! Love it!
No this is perfect! A masterpiece! You, Amanda, are one very talented lady. I’m so impressed!!
I agree with the hubby. (And I tell the truth because I don’t have the risk of sleeping on the couch like he does! LOL) Seriously, though, not too busy at all. Because once you cut it up, you don’t see all the stuff on the outside as well. So you have the outside for when it’s all one piece, and then you have the inside bonus when you cut it up. And I am just so impressed that you thought to put 2 blue sections in there so that when you cut it up the piece looks like a flag. I NEVER would have thought of that and I didn’t even get why you did it until I saw a piece cut up! LOL Great job and I was excited to see glaze on a cake since I’d been throwing around doing that myself but wasn’t sure how it would turn out!
Very cool-and next time( if there is a next time-lol) You could add white chocolate chips to the blue cake…..
I am Canadian-any ideas on how to do our flag cake?
Haha – I knew there would be a surprise inside
Awesome idea! It looks great!
This is the coolest forth of July cake I’ve ever seen!!! SO LOVE IT!
Another work of genius! Love it, and as soon as I saw it I thought oh my goodness 4th of July is coming up quick! So much fun!
We are our own worst critics… But you MUST believe that your cake is PERFECTION!
So very, very cool! This is going to be an amazing Fourth of July celebration for us since our son is coming home from Afghanistan ON the 4th of July! Can’t think of a better day for him to come home to this great country and our family!
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! You know our 4th wedding anniversary is on the 4th of July!!!!! Oh how I love me some RED, WHITE, and BLUE!!!!
Always love your cakes – i am making this one, for sure for the weekend bbq!!!
How do you make the red so red? My red always comes out pinkish. What kind of coloring do you use and where do you buy it?
Thanks!
AMAZING! I absolutely love the surprise….
very nice! i love the design on the top!
I love it!!!
Hey folks check out Amanda’s amazing cake!!!
I love patriotic and theme-type food and this is awesome! Love it!
Gorgeous, Gorgeous, Gorgeous!!! Thanks for sharing,…now I wish you could literally SHARE a piece!
-Shelley@HowDoesShe
That is amazing! I followed a link from Ohdeedoh over here because I just had to see more. Fantastic!
Yep…I was right. Your red, white, and blue cake looked way better than mine!
What an awesome cake! Love it!
That it truly out of control. I love it!! This is the first time I’ve seen your blog, I connected from HowDoesShe to Tidy Mom to you. Long string, but worth it! I’ll definitely be back!
Wow! This cake is truly amazing…and you are dynamite. Just found your blog via Tidy Mom and I’m so glad. This cake is not too busy ~ it’s unique and very patriotic. HOW did you do the top layer with the blue on the outside? I don’t believe I could ever decorate the outside nearly as well but would like to try the inside design.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Pat
Well for goodness sakes…I just posted about my pitiful cake and then I saw this….It is beautiful….and I so wish I could master these types of cakes….please, don’t go to my blog and see my mess of a cake….after seeing your beauty, I’d be so ashamed!!! Love this cake!!!
Absolutely great baking. Even cutting inside you get a slice of “flag”. Wow. Now that’s talent!!!
Haupi
http://hauplight.blogspot.com/
I have seen many versions of this fun cake over the net, and here is one of the places!… I just made a few changes to mine. But Lori has a link to a wonderful tutorial! (I know that Elisa from 17 and baking claims this as her own… and she is fantastic!, a truly creative and original baker!)
http://bedifferentactnormal.blogspot.com/2010/05/flag-cake.html
Have fun with it!
Wow! That is amazing.
No,was right. The blue on the inside makes the sliced cake stunning!
how on earth did you do that!????!??!
Ooh! You made Elissa’s cake! I absolutely love her blog 17 and baking – how cool of you to make your own incarnation.
Elissa’s cake was also made on a Salt Lake City show, they tracked the original idea seen all over the net back to her, see there video here! http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=17andbaking.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstudio5.ksl.com%2F%3Fnid%3D71%26sid%3D11199064&sref=http%3A%2F%2F17andbaking.com%2Ffeatured-on%2F
I saw this cake a few days ago and can not stop thinking about it. It’s such a beauty!! This is for sure my favorite cake that you’ve done. Love it!!
Can you tell me how many cakes you made for this?? It has a lot of layers. Pls share cause I would like to make mine as tall as yours. Thanks
I used three
separate cakes. One for the blue, one for the red, and one for the
white. I only added blue to HALF of the blue cake recipe, and then
made an additional layer in white.
have fun with it!
Girl, you were fast. Here I thought I would have to wait at least a day for your response!! You Rock!!! Going to make this cake for my nephew’s birthday this Sunday. He was born on the 6th but party will be on 4th of July. I don’t think he’ll mind a flag cake cause he’s just turning 2!!! I’ve seen a lot of these cakes but yours is by FAR the prettiest and tallest!! Thanks once again, and Happy Fourth of July.
p.s. Your blog is amazing!!
Looks great as always! My husband actually saw it and forwarded it to me (though I told him I always check your blog and would have seen it eventually
Wow! Great cake! However, did you do the inside! Love it! Thanks for sharing & glad to find your blog. Looking forward to following!
This is amazing! how did you do this?
i can’t figure out how you got the blue in that one area.
please show us step by step
GORGEOUS!!!
What an amazing cake! I was wondering what cake recipe you actually used. I can’t wait to try this over the weekend!
Thanks for the post!
I was also wondering what cake recipe and frosting recipe you used as well! I’m so excited to make this cake! You did such an amazing job and I don’t think you overshot the basket at all.
Hi Amanda,
I am making this cake today, my 3 cakes are cooling as I type. I was wondering if you freeze your cakes before cutting/decorating them? I would appreciate the advice. Love the cake you made, you have so much talent!
Thanks!
I actually made this! I’m so proud of myself! This is the coolest cake, thanks for sharing.
(Though my family did ask where the white stars were in my blue cake. They are so hard to please!)
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are you KIDDING me?
I LOOOOVE this!
oh, how I love this!
you are sooo very talented!
omg! That cake is soooooo cool!! I can’t even wait until next year so I can try that out!! I was seriously scrolling down slowly thinking wait for it… wait for it… she’s got to have a picture of the inside… I wonder what she did this time! and then there it was! BRILLIANCE =) haha. SUPER COOL!
Another masterpiece! I made this for the 4th of July and it was a hit. Thanks for the idea! I posted pictures in your Flickr group.
this is the best cake ever. it would be great for a welcome home next month
Wow, what a cake! I love how the colours go through the cake as well. I have never seen that before. It would really be a great talking point. More cakes like this. Brilliant!!!
Your cakes are beautifully done!!
Here are many inspired Summer and Patriotic entertaining, decorations and gift ideas that would look good around these gourmet cakes.
when i made this cake it came out great! but one thing i couldn’t get over was the crumbs that were all over it do you have any tips on a way to make tit looks cleaner?
I love it. I have been decorating cakes on the OUTSIDE only! I may give this a try for the 4th.
Blessings,
Lorilee
I think this cake is amazing. Way to go!
I saw this on the BlogHer Newsletter and said, “that looks like Amanda!”
Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! It is! And I’m cool. But totally not as cool as you!
Awesome! You are making a name for yourself. Great work!
Hi Amanda,
This cake looks fantastic! What frosting and coloring gel did you use for the red sections? I am currently having trouble getting a nice red buttercream without it tasting funny and needing to use the whole botter of Americolor super red!
How did you make the big flat frosting stars on the side? they are beautiful
I think your decorations outside are fabulous, too! You are so talented!