Layered Flag Cake

The stars and stripes come through with flying colors on this easy-to-make 5-layer patriotic cake! The Wilton Easy Layers! Cake Pan Set is the secret to making a great-looking layer cake you can just stack and decorate to show off the red, white, and blue.

• 4.5 cups Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe
• 5 cups white icing
• Red food color
• 3 oz blue fondant
• Easy layers cake pan set

1. Prepare the batter. Divide the batter into pans in the set. Bake and cool according to pan directions.
2. Tint the icing with red food color. Reserve 3 cups of white icing. Use a spatula and red icing to fill and stack the layers.
3. Fill one disposable decorating bag with red icing and one with white icing. Cut about 1 ½ in. from the tip of the decorating bags. Pipe alternating bands of red and white icing to cover the side of each layer, then smooth with a spatula. Ice the top of the cake smooth with white icing. Use the tip of the spatula to add texture lines in the icing.
4. Use a 9 in. fondant roller to roll out the blue fondant 1/8 in. thick. Use a (4 in.) star cutter to cut out the shape. Attach the star to the center of the cake side. Use tip 1, a cut disposable decorating bag, and white icing to pipe stars on the blue star.

Recipe from Wilton.com!