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American Flag Cake
Celebrate 4th of July with this red velvet sheet cake recipe. Using red, white, and blue nonpareils, this American flag dessert is a holiday showstopper.
👥 10 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h 20m⏳ Prep: 1h👤 Ree Drummond📖 thepioneerwoman
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●baking sheet
- ●bowl
- ●whisk
- ●oven
- ●pan
- ●spatula
📝 Preparation Steps
1
For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Spray a rimmed baking sheet (about 13 by 18 inches) with cooking spray. Whisk together the cake flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk together the food coloring, cocoa powder, vinegar, and vanilla in a small bowl.
Cooking spray
2
Combine the granulated sugar, vegetable oil, and eggs in a large bowl. Beat with a mixer on medium speed until smooth, ⏱️ 1 minute. Reduce the speed to low; beat in the flour mixture, alternating with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Add the food coloring mixture; beat on high speed until smooth, 20 to ⏱️ 30 seconds.
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3
Pour the batter into the pan and smooth the surface. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about ⏱️ 20 minutes. Transfer to a rack and let cool completely in the pan.
4
For the frosting: Beat the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and salt in a large bowl with a mixer on medium speed until smooth. Beat in the milk, adding more as needed until spreadable. Frost the surface of the cake smoothly with an offset spatula.
5
To decorate: Trim a piece of parchment so it's the size of the surface of the cake. Position the parchment with a long side facing you. Measure and mark 13 horizontal stripes that are equal in width. From the upper left corner, mark a square that goes a little less than halfway across the top and down to the bottom of the seventh stripe.
6
Cut out the square. Lay the remaining parchment on top of your frosted sheet cake, pressing gently, then cover the exposed square in the corner with blue nonpareils. Lift the cake to pour off any excess nonpareils, then carefully peel off the parchment.
7
Cut the same piece of parchment into 13 strips, following your marks. Place every other strip on the cake where the white stripes will be; leave the rest exposed and cover those with red nonpareils. Pour off any excess nonpareils, then carefully peel off all the parchment strips. Top the blue square with a few white nonpareils.
. powdered sugar1 lbRed, white, and blue nonpareils (not mixed), for decorating
Nutrition Facts
calories
894 Calories
fat Content
49 g
fiber Content
1 g
sugar Content
82 g
sodium Content
362 mg
protein Content
6 g
trans Fat Content
0 g
cholesterol Content
86 mg
carbohydrate Content
110 g
saturated Fat Content
13 g
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