Happier Than A Pig In Mud: Red, White and Blue Cake

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Red, White and Blue Cake

Here's a fun idea if you have a checkerboard cake pan. While the decorative coconut is pretty, the fun starts when you cut it-folks really get a kick out of the cake colors!

The coconut is colored by adding coconut and food coloring drops to a sandwich baggie and
kneading it until you reach the desired color.

I made the star by laying a cookie cutter on the icing and filling it with coconut, pushing down lightly.
I would chop the coconut finer for a detailed decoration like this the next time.

Star on top, stripes in the middle.

I'm very happy with both the cake and icing recipes, they are keepers!

Earl says...

I don't know who she thinks is washing all these dishes,

but I'm only here to lick the beater!

Simple 9" White Cake adapted from Allrecipes
1 C sugar
1/2 C butter
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 C A/P flour
1 3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 C milk

Beat sugar and butter well.
Add eggs and beat until fluffy.
Sift the flour and baking powder and add it and milk to wet, mix well.
Pour into a greased and floured 9" cake pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes or until golden and toothpick comes out clean.
Cool for a while in the pan, then turn out onto cake dish and cool completely.

Notes for tri-colored cake:
1/3 C of batter for center color
1 C of batter for middle ring
1 1/3 C of batter for outer ring.
This recipe makes more than these measurements, I tried to divvy up the leftover proportionally between the three. Or you could just make a cupcake with the extra (that was Earl's suggestion:@)

White Icing adapted from Allrecipes
2 C powdered sugar
1/2 C shortening-sub any amount of butter you'd like, I used 2 Tblsp butter
1 Tblsp water-you might need to add a little more, I used 1 1/2 Tblsp
1/2 tsp vanilla