Red, White, and Blue Cake

Memorial Day signifies many things to many people. My Grandmother would visit the graves of family members. For others, it is the parade and remembering lost service members. For us, it signifies my husband's birthday since often his birthday falls on the holiday. Well, I had to make him a patriotic cake. My sister found the idea on pinterest and sent it to me. I decided to try making star shapes. I did learn that the cake needs to be frozen so it is easy to cut out the shapes. Also, I used the rest of the red and blue cake to make my bottom layer so I didn't waste any cake. I liked the affect. I used this cake recipe.  The best part of making this cake is my daughter helped.

Red, White, and Blue Cake
1 baked red cake
1 baked blue cake
1 white cake batter

Directions

1. Freeze the red cake and the blue cake for 1 hour.
2. Cut out the star shapes from the frozen cake.
3. Place the cut out cooked red and blue cake stars into the white cake batter.
4. Make sure the cut out star shapes are covered by the white cake batter.
5. Bake the white cake as normal.
6. Once cooked, frost as desired and serve.

Recipe adapted from Recipebyphoto.

One year ago.................................I made a Star Cake.
Two years ago...............................I made a Stuffed Burger.

An example of my cut out blue star.

Did you already know...................
-Memorial Day once was called Decoration Day.
-Decoration Day began to remember all the fallen Civil War soldiers.
-On May 5th, 1868, the Union Veterans decided to establish a day to decorate the graves of the fallen soldiers with flowers.

Star Cake

When I was a kid, my Dad would make this wonderful sitting bear cake. He would use the star tip for the frosting. We all thought it would be great. I have used the star tip occasionally but not on the whole cake. I thought the star tip would be appropriate to use for this cake. My daughter Allie helped me decorate it. We took turns. I would pipe the white and she would pipe the blue. 

Red, White, and Blue Star Cake
One cooked rectangle cake
Red, white, and blue frosting

Directions:

1. Lightly trace a star design onto the top of the cake. (Either free hand, use a template, or a ruler.)
2. Once the desired pattern is traced on the top of the cake, cut the pattern out. Be carefully but if you make a mistake use frosting to fill in the error.
3. Lightly cover the cake with a base coat of white frosting.
4. Pipe the sides with the white frosting using the star tip.
5. Border the side of the cake with the white frosting.
6. Pipe the blue frosting onto the cake on each triangle of the cake.
7. In the middle of the cake, alternate between the red and white frosting.
8. Pipe 3 white stars in the middle of each triangle.

Cake created by Jen of Sweet Morris.

One year ago.................................I made Mahogany Cake.

Did you already know...................
-Memorial Day once was known as Decoration Day.
-Memorial Day is honor those who have died serving our nation.
-In 1967, President Johnson legally named Memorial Day a national holiday.

Please have a safe Memorial Day!