a little something fancy for the fourth

Around our house we have one that is known as “the mini cake boss”.  She has been known to watch the show Cake Boss and she loves to bake and decorate.  Therefore this blog post is being sponsored by her.  She found this cool surprise 4th of July cake and wanted to give it a try.  It took some thinking on both our parts to figure out how to put it all together so we thought we would break it down for everyone else just to keep it easy for you all.  Here goes:

To get started you need one red velvet cake mix, one white cake mix, and we decided we wanted 2 frostings, just to be on the safe side.  (There will be no baking from scratch here.)

Bake the red velvet cake in 2 circle cake pans.  Since we only have the 2 cake pans, we had to do the white cake mix as the second batch.  This time split the cake batter in half and color half blue and bake.  You should have 2 red cakes, 1 white cake, and 1 blue cake.

Next you want to slice both red cakes and the white cake (BUT NOT THE BLUE CAKE) horizontally through the middle so you end up with 2 white rounds and 4 red rounds.  The picture above is one of the red cakes sliced in half.

Layer a red, a white, and a red round with frosting in between each layer.

Now comes the tricky part.

Cut a circle out of the middle of the blue cake…we found the circle thing, pressed it into the cake to mark it, and then cut the circle out.

Stack the outer blue ring on top of your already stacked red, white, red layers…with frosting, of course.

Now you will cut out circles from the leftover red round and the leftover white round.  Use the same circle size as you used for the blue since you want your small circles to fit inside the outer blue ring.

Layer the white circle in the middle of the blue outer ring.

The last layer is the small red circle which goes on top of the small white circle in the middle of the blue ring. So your cake should have a skinny red layer, a skinny white layer, a skinny red layer, a fat blue ring layer filled with a skinny white circle and a skinny red circle.

You will have leftover cake (the inside of the blue circle and the outside of the red and white circles) and should take care of it however you see fit.

Frost the whole outside of the cake.

Now when you cut into your cake you will get this magic:

So cool!

Happy & safe 4th!