Celebrate My Whimsy: Patriotic Flag Cake

What could be more festive than families and friends gathering to watch the whimsy in the sky of fire bursts and fireworks? Not much. So I really wanted to make a festive cake for the occasion that could stand up for the cause, a great celebration of the Land of the free! Pretty much, I think this delicious cake did just that considering it was so pretty and so patriotic. God Bless our great country!

Patriotic Flag Cake~
Two Red Cakes
One white cake
One blue cake
Frosting
*note~ I used the recipe below for my white and blue cake. It was delicious and it held up well to being cut!
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/tender-white-cake-recipe

1) Cut cooled cakes into the following shapes below. One red cake was cut in half and then set aside. The other red cake was cut in half and I took a small round bowl, set it on top of the half and cut out the small circle. All extra scraps and half of cake I put aside to make cake balls for a later date.
2) For the white cake, I cut it in half. I kept one half and with the other half, took the same small bowl, set it on top for my template and cut out a small circle. Again, extra pieces were set aside for later use for cake balls.
3) For the blue cake, I cut just the top off to even it ( you'll need the whole cake for this part) and used the small bowl for a template and cut out the middle. (Middle piece saved for later use.)
Now to begin~

4) I started with half of the red cake and placed it on my serving platter and lightly frosted the top.

5) I placed the white on top, frosted it and then the red on top of that and frosted it. Easy enough so far.

6) I placed the blue round on top next.

7) In the center, gently place the white round inside. I frosted the white round.

8) Now, in the center, I placed the red round in and I gently pressed on it to make sure it was even with the blue layer.

9) Lightly frosted the whole cake.

10) To frost my cake, I decided to do an ombre (layered blending color look) style using a star tip. In a separate bowl, I added blue coloring to about a cup of frosting and mixed well.

11) I frosted the first layer of the bottom of the cake making little rosettes by making a circle and a half motions.

12) For the next layer of rosettes, I emptied the remainder of the frosting from my frosting bag into the bowl with blue frosting, added about 1/2 cup of white frosting and mixed well. Now I have a lighter shade of blue to frost the middle layer.

13) I repeated the next step for the next and last layer of blue by adding more white frosting.

14) For the very top layer, I used white only making rosettes on the outside top, moving in to fill in the center. Then I added a pretty marzipan flag that I made just for the occasion. Find the recipe and how to for the Marzipan flag here... http://celebratemywhimsy.blogspot.com/2013/07/homemade-marzipan.html

And Voila... Here's a pretty cake for the holiday. And now for the best part....