Red White and Blue Layer Cake

Everyone will love fantastic, patriotic Red, White, and Blue Layer Cake! It is the perfect dessert for all those summer holidays and barbecues. This easy cake starts with a cake mix and gets frosted with a decadently delicious homemade buttercream and decorated with festive sprinkles and cherries. Sure to be a hit at all your parties.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword 4th of July cake, 4th of July dessert, red white blue cake

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 20

chill time 1

Total Time 1 35

Servings servings

Calories 726kcal

Author Eileen Kelly

Equipment

Ingredients

Cake Ingredients

2 (15.25 ) ounce boxes, white cake mix
6 large egg whites
1 cup vegetable oil
2 cups water
red food coloring
blue food coloring

Buttercream Frosting Ingredients

2 cups unsalted butter (room temperature)
2 pounds confectioners' sugar 7½ cups
maraschino cherries optional garnish
red, white, and blue sprinkles optional garnish

Instructions

Prepare the cake

Preheat your oven to 350°F/176.66°C. Spray 3 8-inch round cake pans with cooking spray. Set aside.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment or a large bowl use a hand mixer with beaters attached to combine the 2 (15.25 ) ounce boxes, white cake mix, 6 large egg whites , 1 cup vegetable oil , and 2 cups water , until combined.
Evenly divide your batter between 3 bowls.
Put a few drops of red food coloring in one bowl of batter. Drop a few drops of the blue food coloring in the second bowl. (Just a few drops of each to get your desired shade)
Pour the red batter into one of the prepared 8-in round pans, then the blue in another, and the white batter into the third pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle of each cake comes out clean.
Let the cakes cool in their pans for 5 minutes before inverting them onto a cooling rack to finish cooling completely. When the cakes are completely cool it is time to make the buttercream.

Buttercream Frosting

In the bowl of an electric mixer, with the paddles attached, or a large mixing bowl, use a hand mixer with beaters attached, cream together 2 cups unsalted butter (room temperature) and 2 pounds confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. If you have a hard time getting the frosting to a fluffy consistency you can add a tablespoon of water or milk at a time until you get your desired consistency.
Place the red layer on the cake plate and spoon a bit of the frosting in the middle and spread it out.
Stack the white layer on top of the red, add frosting to the top of the white layer and repeat with the blue layer.
Once your layers are stacked, finish completely frosting the cake with the buttercream.
Put remaining buttercream into a piping bag and pipe around the edges and top. (optional decorating)
Add red, white, and blue sprinkles and maraschino cherriesto decorate the edges of the cake.
Place the cake into the refrigerator for at least an hour to chill and set up.
Slice and serve!

Notes

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Note 1: If you have difficulty with the frosting to a fluffy consistency, you can add a tablespoon of water or milk, one at a time, until you get your desired consistency.

Storage: This cake is best served the day it is made, but can be stored in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

Any nutritional data I provide is an approximation and actual dietary information can vary based on ingredients and proportion sizes.

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