Ingredients
- 3 boxes (18.25 ounces each) Favorite White Cake Recipe or Mix
- Red food coloring
- Blue food coloring
- BUTTERCREAM CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- 8 cups confectioners sugar
- 2 (8 oz.) packages cream cheese, softened
- 2 sticks of unsalted butter, softened
- 4 teaspoons vanilla
Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Prepare each package white cake mix following package instructions using water, oil and egg whites. Keep batters separate!
Gently stir Red food coloring to desired shade into 1 bowl of batter; repeat with Blue food coloring into 2nd bowl of batter. Reserve 3rd bowl of batter for white.
Place batter dividing ring into first pan; spray pan AND ring with vegetable pan spray.
Hold ring down after placing inside each pan, before filling sections with batter. Fill each section two-thirds full as follows: red-tinted batter in center, white batter in middle section, blue-tinted batter in outside section. Gently tap pan on counter. Remove ring from pan by carefully LIFTING STRAIGHT up on handles. DO NOT PUT RING IN OVEN. Remove ring and wash well.
Repeat in second pan, filling center with white, middle section with blue and outside section with red batter. Gently tap pan on counter; remove ring and wash well.
Repeat in third pan, filling center with blue, middle section with red and outside section with white batters. Gently tap pan on counter; remove ring and wash well.
Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely.
Stack cake layers on a foil-wrapped cake board with thin layer of white buttercream cream cheese icing between layers. Ice sides with thin layer of white buttercream cream cheese icing. Ice top of cake smooth with white buttercream cream cheese icing.
Decorate top and sides of cakes with patriotic sprinkles, etc.