Happy Fourth everyone…
Today, instead of a real post, I’m going to post something awesome. Last year, at some point in the summer, I had a flag cake. I don’t know if that’s what they’re actually called but that’s what I’m going to call mine. I got the idea this morning watching the Food Network even though we were watching Throwdown with Bobby Flay – an awesome show by the way, in case you’ve never seen. So I decided I wanted to bake, the boys – fiance’s friend L is in town visiting for the weekend – had other ideas, i.e. going to Finn’s on 8th street and watching the Yankees v. Red Socks.
So I trekked up to the Teet to get a couple things – cake mix, fruits, and some stuff for dinner tonight. I’m making enchilladas and a four layer (modified from five…) bean dip.
But about the flag cake. Martha’s recipe calls for Raspberries which I substituted for strawberries. Check it out…
Heidi’s Fourth of July Flag Cake
1 White Cake Mix (or vanilla)
1 jar cream cheese frosting
1 package of fresh strawberries
1 package blueberries. Really though? You only need about fifty
Cook the Cake per box directions (unless you’re doing this from scratch. At which point, I bow down to you).
Bake. I baked mine for about 35 minutes. It came out perfectly.
Frost with Cream Cheese frosting, I had originally intended on using a more cool whip based frosting but I wanted to do as little work as possible with a still awesome outcome.
Add Blueberries – I did 6 rows of 7. I know. Not quite fifty.
Finally I did four rows of strawberries that were washed and then cut in half.
Voila! You’ve got yourself a flag cake too!
Happy Fourth everyone!
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Yum! My mom makes something like this only instead of cream cheese frosting, she uses cool whip.
I think sometimes she pokes holes in the cake and drizzles jello into it so the cake comes out all different colors too
So refreshing! Maybe I’ll make something like this for my picnic tomorrow!
I didn’t do one of these this year, but we do them sometimes too. Love it!
that cake looks delicious! too bad i don’t have a kitchen…
Very cool, perhaps I’ll make myself a scottish flag sometime! Hope you had a great 4th July!
Happy 4th!
Im definitely going to attempt to bake that cake, it seems easy enough.
Yum! That looks great and oh-so-patriotic!
I hope y’all had a lot of fun devouring the cake!
I made Martha’s cake for the 4th too.
We rule.
Except I used boxed white cake and raspberries and Strawberries.
Look at you being so creative! That’s awesome