
Happy 4th of July
Happy birthday, America! As we all know, this country has a very mixed and muddled past. Yes, America claimed itself as a free country with the Declaration of Independence. But at who’s cost? Was this their land to claim and own? Who was forced to till the soil and reap the harvests to feed those owning this land? We’ve made great progress for the rights of everyone residing here in the U.S. since 1776. And while we have further still to go, it’s nice to take a day to celebrate all that this country stands for. And what better way to celebrate than with an epic hidden surprise American flag cake?! 🎆
Inspiration for this cake – citizenship and a prank
I made this cake to celebrate my fiancé obtaining his U.S. citizenship!! It’s the ultimate surprise cake because on the outside, it looks like a plain old boring vanilla cake. BUT when you slice into it… BEHOLD ‘MURICA ALL UP IN YO CAKEY BUSINESS!
I actually got the inspiration for this cake from a prank. Years ago I saw a post on the internet where an American made their Canadian friend a cake decorated like Canada’s flag. However, when the surprised friend sliced into the cake to eat it, he found that an American flag was INSIDE his Canada cake! I thought about replicating this exact prank, but putting an American flag cake inside an Iraq flag cake seemed frighteningly politically accurate. 😅










Hungry for more cake recipes? Check out these!
- Strawberry Ombre heart layer cake
- Pick-me-up mini cakes (aka cupcakes)
- Peanut butter & jelly pancake cake
- Easy & healthy carrot cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting
- Funfetti one-layer cake, s’mores two-layer cake, blueberry three-layer cake & watermelon four-layer cake
- Epic beach cake with sand and the ocean
- Gâteau au Yaourt in a virtual day at the Louvre in Paris
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This recipe for this surprise American flag cake was inspired by Aww Sam’s hidden design flower cake! 🌸

Hidden Surprise American Flag Cake
Ingredients
- 2 boxes pound cake mix from the grocery store
- ingredients on the box required for the three cake mixes
- red, white, blue and yellow food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Grease three small loaf pans/tins or three regular baking dishes. I found some mini loaf tins at the local grocery store, which is what I used to bake my dyed cakes. However, baking them in larger baking dishes would allow for the flag pieces to be larger, and you'd have less little pieces to puzzle together into a cake.
- Mix together one box of the pound cake mix. Divide the cake batter into three separate bowls. Dye one bowl of batter red. Dye the second bowl of batter blue. If your third bowl of batter looks white, leave it as-is. But if it has a yellow color, then dye it white.
- Pour each color batter into a separate loaf tin and bake them for about 25 to 35 minutes, when a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf comes out clean. Or if you're baking your colored cakes in large baking dishes, start checking if they're done after about 18 minutes.Let them cool completely, for at least one hour.
- Slice the red and white cakes into long strips, to make the stripes of the flag.Slice the blue cake into squares, to make the upper left square of the flag. Freeze all the cut pieces of the cake on a cutting board or baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Mix together the second box of pound cake. Dye it yellow to contrast the white of the flag.
- Arrange your frozen red, white and blue cake pieces in a 9-inch by 5-inch loaf pan into the shape of a flag. Using a piping bag, pipe the yellow cake mix along all the edges of the flag, allowing it to completely cover all the sides and top of it.
- Bake in the oven at 350°F for 40 to 50 minutes, when a toothpick inserted into the yellow cake comes out clean. Allow to cool for at least one hour.
- Decorate however you like! I decorated mine with white vanilla buttercream and a splash of rainbow sprinkles. Enjoy and marvel in everyone's ooh's and ahh's when you slice into your masterpiece!
Hahaha this is pretty hilarious! Happy 4th to you and to all my American friends
Aww thank you!! 🥰
This is such a good idea! Happy 4th of July!
Thank you so much! 🥰
What’s great idea! Happy 4th too you!
Thank you!! Hope you had a great 4th!!
It rained lol but we went to Cape Cod the week before which had great weather!
Wow that’s so cool, Cape Cod is definitely on my travel bucket list!