Fireworks Push It Up Cakes Recipes

FIREWORKS PUSH-IT-UP CAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 36 mini muffin cups with cooking spray.
• In medium bowl, beat cake mix, water, oil and egg whites with electric mixer on low speed until moistened; beat 2 minutes on high speed until well blended. Divide batter into 2 bowls. Tint 1 bowl of batter with a few drops red food color; tint other bowl with blue food color.
• Fill 18 muffin cups 2/3 full with red batter. Bake about 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven. Repeat with blue batter to make an additional 18 mini cupcakes. Cool completely.
• To assemble push-up cakes, drop 1 mini cupcake into each push-up pop container. Add generous teaspoon frosting to top of each cupcake. Top each with second mini cupcake; add dollops of frosting to tops of each. Sprinkle each of popping rock candy. Serve.

FROZEN FIREWORKS

Steps:

• Transfer 1 pint of the coconut sorbet to a large measuring cup. Add the food coloring and stir with a fork until it is smooth and pourable. Pour the blue layer into the bottom third of each of 12 push pop molds and freeze until set, about 2 hours.
• Meanwhile, use a 1 1/2-inch star cookie cutter to punch out 12 pineapple stars. Place them on a wax paper-lined plate and freeze until ready to use.
• Stir the remaining pint coconut sorbet until it is a pourable consistency and fill the molds another third of the way. Allow to freeze until set, 1 to 2 hours.
• Spoon the softened raspberry sorbet to fill to the top of the mold, smoothing the top. Freeze for 1 hour, then place a pineapple star upright in the center of each pop. Freeze until ready to serve.

FIREWORKS BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Make the cake: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 10- to 12-cup Bundt pan, making sure to get in all the crevices; dust with flour and tap out the excess. Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; set aside.
• Beat the butter and granulated sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then beat in the sour cream and vanilla. (The batter may look curdled.) Reduce the mixer speed to medium low and add the flour mixture in three batches, alternating with the buttermilk; beat until combined.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Transfer to a rack and let cool 15 minutes in the pan; loosen the edge of the cake with a knife and invert onto the rack to cool completely.
• Make the glaze: Whisk the confectioners' sugar, lemon juice, vanilla and 1 tablespoon water in a bowl; add a splash more water if the glaze is too thick. Spoon over the cake, letting it drip down the sides. Decorate with nonpareils. Let stand until set, 5 to 10 minutes. Put rock candy sticks in the center of the cake.

FANTASTIC FIREWORKS CAKE (4TH OF JULY CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F Grease and flour two 8-inch round cake pans or see Tip #1 below.
• Prepare the cake mix batter according to package directions.
• Pour 1 cup batter into each prepared pan. Drop 5 to 7 drops each of the red and blue food coloring randomly on batter. (I found the larger the drop pools, the better the effect. In other words, don't skimp or there will not be enough gel effect when cutting the cake.) Swirl the coloring with a wooden skewer. Divide the remaining batter evenly between the pans, spooning batter gently on top of swirled colors. Drop 5 to 7 drops each of red and blue food coloring randomly on the batter again; swirl coloring with a wooden skewer.
• Bake the cakes until a toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove the cakes from the pans and place on wire racks to cool completely.
• Place one cake layer on a serving plate. Spread the top with about 3/4 cup frosting. Top with the second cake layer. Spread the side and top of the cake with the remaining frosting. Draw several sets of concentric circles on top and side of cake with the red and blue decorating gels. Drag a wooden skewer through the circles to feather the colors and make bursting fireworks designs.
• Two Tips To Remove Cake From Pans:.
• Tip 1. An easier method is to outline 2 pieces of wax paper cut to the size of the bottom of the cake pan. Place wax paper on bottom and pour batter over. When inverting after baking, immediately peel off wax paper and dispose.
• Tip 2. Let each cake layer cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing; the cake will release steam and begin to pull away from the pan edge.
• Check to see if the cake will come out easily by placing one hand on top of the cake and carefully inverting the pan. If the cake layer doesn't release, run a knife around the edge of the cake to help loosen. Place your hand on the top and carefully invert the pan again. Remove the cake and carefully place on a rack to cool completely.

4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS CAKE RECIPE - (4.2/5)

Steps:

• Make a white cake mix. Divide the batter into 3 bowls. Leave one bowl white, dye one red and one blue. Line the bottoms of 2 eight inch cake pans with wax paper and grease the sides. Layer the batter in your pans, dropping by spoonfuls. For marble effect: Drag a knife through the batter, making lines in a side to side motion; then repeat this motion going up and down. Be careful not to mix the colors together. Bake your cake as directed, and cool completely. Frost your cake with white frosting, making the top as smooth as possible. Put the cake in the freezer for at least 45 minutes to harden the frosting. Read a good book while you wait... Take your cake out of the freezer. With gel food coloring, make a line of dots from the middle of the cake to the outside edge. Starting at the outside dot, brush over the dots toward the center with a paint brush. Clean your brush, and repeat all the way around your cake. Work with one color at a time, and do not overlap them. Press star shaped sprinkles into the frosting on the bottom. Serve up some cake before the fireworks start... Enjoy!