Flag Layer Cake

Celebrate the Fourth with this flag layer cake recipe from Frisco Style

Prep Time: 45 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Servings: 1 cake

INGREDIENTS

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• 3 boxes white cake mix

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• rred and blue food coloring

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• rwhite frosting of your choice for the outside of the cake

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• rred, white and blue melting candies for decorative pieces on cake

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INSTRUCTIONS

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1. Prepare all three cake batters according to instructions on the box. Add red food coloring to one batter, blue to another, and leave the third white.

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2. Divide batters into 9-inch round pans (each box of mix should make two layers) and bake as directed on box.

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3. Let the layers completely cool. Level off the top of each cake. Stack the five layers using a fruit spread or frosting of your choice to hold them together.

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4. Stack a whole red layer and a whole white layer then cut the remaining red, white and blue cakes in half.

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5. To stack the remaining layers of the cake, alternate half of a blue layer of cake and half of a red layer of cake, then stack a half blue and half white layer and then stack a half blue layer and a half red layer of cake. (You will have half of a white cake and half of a blue cake left).

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6. Ice and decorate the cake however you would like. Use melting candies to create stars or fireworks.

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