How to make a round 9" American Flag Cake with Swiss Meringue Frosting

Oh My Stars! Is the best way to describe this beautiful layered All American Flag Cake. Bring out the red, white and blue in almond flavored cake layers. Inside the this 9″ round cake you will see red and white stripes and a blue flag with every slice. Smooth and creamy Swiss Meringue Frosting coats between the layers and all over this outside of cake. Of course you can’t have a celebration without sprinkles in red, white and blue tossed on large dollops and around the bottom edge of the cake. It’s a fun and festive way to celebrate America’s beautiful flag and every patriotic holiday.

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Inspiration For This Cake

I have always been intrigued with cakes being baked inside the cake. And how did they get a perfect looking flag in the corner of the cake when making the American Flag Cake? My favorite blogger, Heather Baird created a beautiful American Flag Cake and her cake was my go to for directions on how to assemble this cute cake together. Other inspiration came from Land a Lakes American Flag Cake and Betty Crockers cake. Heather’s cakes were from scratch which was similar to Land a Lakes cake and Betty Crocker used cake mixes. Heather’s cake layers where also thinner than mine which made her cake not as tall and more compact. Her cake is lovely! My cake is 5″ tall with 1″ tall Swiss Meringue dollops.

How to make a round 9" American Flag Cake with Swiss Meringue Frosting

Successful Tips for Making this Cake

Please don’t think you can’t make this cake because of the length of this post and recipe. I have tried to make the process easy and if you take your time I am certain you can get the same results. After making one cake from scratch and one from cake mixes. I discovered I liked the cake mix recipe.The cake is baked in 3-9″ tall round cake pans. I know that one cake mix batter makes 4 cups, so I was able to divide the batter in half (2 cups) per cake pan. The result was the perfect 1″ layer that I needed to assemble the cakes. I am not great at leveling cakes even after purchasing a cake leveler.

I also decided to crumb coat the cakes with a light coating of buttercream frosting to help eliminate cake crumbs when frosting the top and sides of the cake. It also helps keep the cake moist.

Make your cakes one afternoon, cool and crumb coat, cover with plastic wrap and chill or freeze until the next day. If you do have any trimming to do, do the trimming before crumb coating. I found placing the cakes that needed trimmed in the freezer for about 30 minutes to aid in cutting to level. You will be happy that you placed your cakes in freezer.

If you are great at leveling or cutting cakes horizontally and even widths, you can make this cake with three 9″ cakes.

Be prepared that the cake and Swiss Meringue Frosting uses a lot of egg whites. I decided on Swiss Meringue because it isn’t as sweet as American Buttercream and not difficult to make. It is light and creamy, and pipes beautifully. However, it does not hold up well in humid or hot summer days for more than an hour as there is a lot of butter in the Swiss Meringue frosting. If you plan to serve the cake outside for more than a couple of hours use American Buttercream.

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You will have excess egg yolks and cake scraps that make cute cake pops and trifles.

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How to Make the All American Flag Cake

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