Flag Cake

I missed posting the cake we made when my daughter turned 3.  It was a labor of love, but she insisted she wanted a red, white, and blue cake.  So, I knew that this would be difficult but I wanted to make the flag cake I had spotted once upon a time on pinterest.  Let me just say, Patience is the key.  

Here's what it is supposed to look like:

Have I ever publicly declared my disdain for coloring cake RED?  I really don't enjoy it.   Pink.  Always pink.  Unless you use a bottle of red gel.  Christmas time usually wipes my supply out!  Oh well.  Here is what mine looked like:

It turned out ok.. but it was a lot of effort.  It made our girl very happy and that's what counts right?!