Red, White, and Blue Red Velvet Cake

Instructions

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1. - Cake Instructions. Preheat oven to 350°. Prepare 2 8-in. round pans with vegetable pan spray.
2. - In a medium bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
3. - In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, icing color, vinegar, and vanilla extract; blend well. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk and beat just until blended. Pour batter evenly into prepared pans.
4. - Bake 30-35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on cooling grid 10 minutes; remove from pans and cool completely before decorating.
5. - Let the cakes cool to room temperature, then torte (cut) each layer horizontally so you have four even layers total.
6. - Place Bottom layer on cake board or serving plate.
7. - Add Wilton White Creamy Decorator Icing and spread using an angled spatula.
8. - Place the second layer on top, making sure it is level. Repeat with the remaining layers, adding a layer of white icing between each one. Make sure to place the top layer leveled side down ensuring the top of the cake is perfectly smooth and level.
9. - Start the icing process with the sides of the cake. Use Wilton White Creamy Decorator Icing to cover the sides of the cake. Smooth the sides by holding a large angled spatula against the side of the cake, with a slight angle pointing away from the cake. As you spread your icing, the angle will give the excess topping space to accumulate, making it easier to remove. Remove excess icing and place it back your icing tub. Make sure the top is extra smooth so that it's easier to decorate.
10. - To ice the top of the cake, add large dollops of icing to the top and spread to cover. To smooth top, pull the icing inward, from the edge of the cake toward the center, with your angled spatula.
11. - Make Blue Icing: Using Wilton White Creamy Decorator Icing, add pink and blue concentrated food coloring. Mix 5 drops of pink and 29 drops of blue to create blue colored icing.
12. - Pipe a border around the top and bottom edges of your cake. To pipe a border, fill a decorator bag fitted with an open star tip with the blue icing, and alternate between Wilton Red and White Decorating Icing with the star tip, and blue icing.
13. - Add your desired amount of white sugar pearls and silver metallic sprinkles around the top and bottom edges of your cake. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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