Happy Fourth everyone! Today I made a dessert to help celebrate! 🇺🇸🎉
Patriotic Bundt Cake
Ingredients
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 eggs
1 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
5-8 drops red gel food color
5-8 drops blue gel food color
Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
6-8 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5-8 drops red gel food color
5-8 drops blue gel food color
2 tablespoons red, white and blue sprinkles
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a bundt pan.
Add flour, baking powder, and salt to a medium bowl and stir to combine.
Beat together sugar and butter, add eggs one at a time and beat on medium speed until well blended. Change speed to low and add milk and vanilla extract. Increase speed back to medium and mix well.
Add the flour mixture little by little and beat until smooth. Stop once to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
Divide batter into 3 bowls and stir in gel food color with a spatula until well combined into 2 of them: one red, one blue, and one should remain white.
Add the colored batter into the prepared pan, start with blue followed by white, finish with red.
Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean. DO NOT OVERBAKE.
Let cake cool in the pan for 10-15 minutes. Gently loosen cake from pan and turn onto a wire rack; cool completely before icing.
Glaze:
Add powder sugar, milk, and vanilla to a medium bowl and mix until fully incorporated and smooth. If the glaze is not runny enough, add more milk. You need the glaze to be thick enough to hold it’s “drip” on the cake, but runny enough to pour.
Divide glaze into 3 bowls, add gel food coloring to two of them, one blue, one red and the white one stays intact. Stir color to combine.
Drizzle different colors of glaze over the cake, immediately top with sprinkles.
Let the glaze completely settle. Slice and enjoy!
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