Firecracker Cake
November 16, 2016 Comments

- Prep:
- 2 hours
- Cook:
- 1 hour
- Serves:
- 12
Celebrate the 4th with this red, white, and blue extravaganza! Kids will love it!
Ingredients
Directions
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Transfer one cup of your prepared batter into a small bowl. Transfer one cup to another bowl. (You'll now have three bowls of batter.)
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To one of the one-cup bowls, add red food coloring. Stir thoroughly until the batter reaches the color you desire. (It takes a lot of food coloring to reach a deep shade of red.)
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To the other one-cup bowl, add blue food coloring, and stir as directed above.
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Now you have a white batter, a red batter, and a blue batter.
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Heavily butter and lightly flour a fluted Bundt cake pan (or it won't come out of the pan. This is important.) Pour the red cake batter into the bottom of the Bundt pan.
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Slowly pour the white batter on top of the red batter.
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Add the blue batter, pouring slowly and carefully (it won't cover the white batter entirely-that's OK).
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Bake in a 325-degree oven for 45 minutes or until done.
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Cool the cake for about 15 minutes and then place a wire cooling rack on top of the cake pan and then flip it over, very slowly. Let the cake sit upside down until it releases from the pan-about 30 minutes. Let it completely cool on the rack. (Don't rush this part or you'll have a cake-tastrophe. :) )
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While the cake cools, divide the frosting into three small bowls.
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Using food coloring, color one bowl of frosting red, one bowl of frosting blue, and leave one white. (Again, it takes a lot of food coloring to reach the desired shades of color.)
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Microwave the bowl of white frosting for approximately 10 seconds until thin enough to drizzle over the cake.
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Repeat with the blue frosting.
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Repeat with the red frosting.
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Add more white frosting as needed to achieve your desired effect.
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Top with red and blue sugar crystals.
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Slice and enjoy!
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