Unique Patriotic Wedding Cake Ideas: Mini American Flag Shaped Cakes

This easy to make Mini American Flag Shaped Cakes are perfect for a patriotic wedding reception. If you are looking for a fun new way to share your wedding cake or grooms cake with your guest, then you have to try making these Mini American Flag Shaped Cakes. Your wedding guests can each have their own whole cake served to them on individual plates.

This is a patriotic and new twist on the traditional wedding cake ideas.

I am always looking for fun and new patriotic wedding cake ideas. There are so many possibilities.

You can use this edible Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes for a great gift for someone special as well.

To Make Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes You will need:

1 of your favorite boxed white cake mixes

1 - 2 Tub of Vanilla icing

White Tube Writing Icing (2 to 3 tubes)

1 American Flag shaped cookie cutter (about 4 inches wide)

Bake your favorite cake mix as usual. You need to bake it in a 13" X 9" baking pan. You can bake two cakes (or more for a large wedding) and cut them out exactly the same to make a large number of Mini Daisy Shaped Wedding Cakes.

Once the cake has cooled flip it out of the baking pans onto a large platter, carving board, or whatever you have.

Now, stick the cake in the freezer for about 20 to 30 minutes. You want to slightly freeze is, but not freeze it completely. This will help you cut it into the shape of the Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes.

Now, use an American Flag shaped cookie cutter to cut out the Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes on the sheet cake. Simply press the cookie cutter in like you would cookie dough. Pop the American Flag out and lay it on a flat surface.

You should find this sheet cake cuts easily into the shape of these Mini American Flag Shaped Patriotic Wedding Cakes since it is chilled and slightly frozen. This will make the cake much more easy to cut and get crisp clean edges of the small American Flags.

Now, you really should go ahead and place these simple Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes on a board or serving platter before you decorate it. You will not be able to move it once you decorate it or you will ruin it.

Now, take your 1 tub of the icing. You can use any colors that you want to match your wedding. To make these American Flags elegant I recommend leaving them in white and outline in white piping icing.

You may need both tubs (or more) to adequacy cover a large number Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes.

Coat the entire Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes with a thick coat of icing. Use your spatula or butter knife to make the icing really smooth and flat. The more smooth the better. In fact if you like working with fondant icing, that would be the best, but you can use regular canned icing for this. Reserve some icing aside for touch ups later.

Tip: You may find it easier to apply a thin coat of icing to the entire Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes. Then place the wedding cakes in the refrigerator for about an hour.

Once this thin layer has chilled apply another thicker coat of white vanilla icing. This first coat is called the crumb coat for obvious reasons. This is a great way that the wedding cake professionals use to get a clean smooth surface of icing on their wedding cakes.

Now for the real fun. You get to decorate your Mini American Flag Shaped Wedding Cakes. Apply a second smooth coat of your butter cream or vanilla icing.

To garnish take your tube of matching white icing and outline your American Flag. You can first outline around the center and then outline the edge.

So, if you want you can make this American Flag cake in any color, to make it look elegant be sure to pipe on the outlines in the same color though!