4th of July Flag cake

~This is just my variation to the flag cake. But please feel free to add your own ideas while making it~

6~8" baking pans 

(or just keep reusing yours, you'll just have to wait for cakes to cool before washing and recoating.)

wax paper/parchment paper

1 white cake mix

1 red velvet cake mix

blue food dye (alot of it)

With this tutorial you won't have to make seperate layers for the top layer, its all one.

 You'll want to make the ring ahead of time. I made mine out of cardboard and lined with tin foil. I also greased it in hopes the batter wouldn't stick to it too much.

Prepare your pans: 

grease them, lining the bottoms with parchment/wax paper, greasing the paper and ending with flour.

Follow the directions on the back of the box to make your cake batter.

 Adding regular dark vanilla to the red velvet, and clear vanilla with the white cake mix.

Divide your white cake mix into 1/4's.
Or if you're lucky you have a digital scale and you can weigh out your batter and just take 25% of it out.

Place that 25%  into a seperate bowl to make blue.
I read adding cocoa powder helps with the coloring.
(I probably won't do that again, unless I'm trying to make an old looking flag).

 

 So you have about 1/4 blue batter, 3/4 white batter. 1 whole red cake mix batter.

 Place something heavy on your ring to hold it in place.

 Pour the blue batter either on the outside or inside of this ring, depending on how you want it to look.

This layer will have to be as thick as the blue layer. So put 1 thin layer of white,
then gently a thin layer of red on top of that. 

When done gently lift the ring out of the pan.

Here are 2 pics of the blue in the middle instead of the outside ring.

Now take the rest of your batter and divide it evenly between your pans.

 You should have enough for 2 white layers and 3 red layers.

Bake your layers until they're done. I didn't time mine as some of my layers weren't all even, so I just kept checking them with a toothpick until they were done.