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!
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?