Karli’s Uncle Sam Celebration Cake
RED VELVET
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons cocoa 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon Red Icing dye
- 1 stick butter, softened 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions:-Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spray 2…9 inch round cake pans with non-stick spray.
-Mix flour, cocoa and salt; set aside.
-In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy
-Add eggs and red icing color; mix until well blended
-Then add flour mixture alternating buttermilk and flour into the butter mixture. Be sure to mix until well blended.
-Lastly, add baking soda into vinegar and fold carefully into batter. Pour batter into prepared pans.
-Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean
-Transfer to parchment covered cooling rack immediately. Let cool completely
***This recipe will need to be doubled for a total of 4 red velvet cakes***
WHITE CAKE
Ingredients:
- 9 cups cake flour sifted 3 Cups Milk
3 T baking powder 1 1/2 t vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups butter, softened 9 egg whites & 9 whole eggs
- 4 1/2 cups granulated sugar
-Preheat oven to 350°F and Grease 2….9″ round cake pans
-Sift together flour and baking powder and set aside then Cream butter and sugar together until smooth and fluffy and also set aside
-Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry and set aside. Then mix the whole eggs and combine with the beaten egg whites
-With a mixer on low begin to combine the flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with milk. Beat well after each addition.
-Once beaten well add vanilla extract then slowly add egg mixture into the batter
-Once batter is mixed well and smooth add the pudding. Mix until batter is once again smooth.
-Split the batter in half and pour each half into cake pan
-Bake 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean
-Transfer to parchment covered cooling rack immediately. Let cool completely
Once cakes are COMPLETELY COOL start making the icing
-Buttercream Icing
1 stick butter softened 4 T heavy cream
1 stick shortening 2 lb bag of confectioner’s sugar
2 t clear vanilla extract
-Combine butter, shortening, vanilla, and 4T heavy cream in mixing bowl, mix well.
-Slowly adding confectioner’s sugar, continue mixing until mixture is completely smooth. If needed to further cream mixture, add heavy cream 1 T at a time, until icing has desired texture.
-you will also need one box of the following pre-made fondant: Red, White and Blue
Uncle Sam’s Hat
-Start by placing one of the red velvet cakes on your red cake boards. Then ice the top of the cake only.
-Next repeat again with another layer of red velvet cake and icing.
-Next add a layer of white cake, ice and top with the final layer of white cake
-Finally Place the last two layers of red velvet cake stack and ice them to complete the hat
-Once all six layers of the hat are stacked use the remaining icing to cover the entire cake in a thin layer of icing
-Cover the hat with red, white and blue pre-made fondant icing
-Using a cookie cutter, cut stars out of the remaining white fondant and stick them to the blue base of the hat