Flag Cake!

Yes, I've been gone awhile.  I've still been baking, but not much new stuff.  Now that I'm in a new house with loads more counter space and a double oven (!), I plan on baking a lot more.

I'd seen a couple of Fourth of July cakes on Pinterest:  this flag cake, which used a box mix, and this red, white, and blue made-from scratch number.

Since making a cake that looked like a flag apparently wasn't enough of a challenge for me, I decided to use the recipe for the homemade cake -- something I'd never attempted before.

It actually was easier than I anticipated, both in terms of baking and assembling the flag.  The main problem I ran into was walking into the kitchen to find my cat with his head stuck in the bowl of red batter. Yeah, yuck.  So that batch got chucked -- no issues w/the re-do, though, I'm happy to report.

Here's the end result that I came up with...what do you think?