Patriotic Surprise Cake

Today no Bento but being as its Independence Day in the USA a patriotic Surprise cake. Surprise at the bottom of post!

I saw the idea on pinterest for a Surprise cake to announce a Babys Gender here

So Here is the Cake before cutting. Standard cake with icing and 

Wilton Shape-N-Amaze Sugar dough stars.

Patriotic Surprise Cake Before Cutting

and 

wait for it...

here is the cake after cutting....

Surprise!!!

Here it is showing the Surprise!

The Red Velvet Cake is filled with Red White and Blue M&Ms and York Bits.

Its fairly easy to do just make two 9 inch round cakes I chose Red velvet Duncan Hines

Cool completely slice into four rounds. 

Cut a 4-5 inch circle out of two.

Assemble with Frosting with the two Center layers having holes. Add the Candy then the top layer and ice. 

This is just Store bought Duncan Hines Vanilla and the stars are Wilton Shape-N-Amaze. I rolled out and cut with Wilton Star Cut Outs.

Happy 4th of July!

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4th of July Bento Lunch (& more) Linky Party!

Its Americas Birthday on Thursday and to celebrate I am joining the Bento Bloggers & Friends 4th of July Bento Lunch (& more) Linky Party!

So here is my lunch A Red, White and Blue Extravaganza in a PlanetBox Rover!

The Red White and Blue Star Four Cheese Ravioli has been sitting in my freezer waiting for July! I had to keep telling the kids no you can't have it yet. Tried some last night it was yummy. It came from Costco.

The ravioli is sprinkled with Parmesan. In the veggie section is red bell pepper strips and Jicama strips for dipping in the cream cheese served in a Monbento pot.

The fruit section has blueberries, raspberries and watermelon cut into stars. In the Planetbox tall dipper is some blue Greek yoghurt. All served in a PlanetBox Rover.

To see lots more independence day inspiration and patriotic ideas for food head on over to the linky party hosted by bentonbetterlunches.com by clicking the picture below.

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