Serves:
8 people
Cooking Time:
1 hour
Ingredients
- 1 (15.25 oz) white cake mix
- 3 egg whites
- 6-8 firecracker ice pops
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 cup pop rocks
- 2 (16 oz) tubs of vanilla frosting
- red food coloring
- blue food coloring
Instructions
- Use a knife to separate the red, white, and blue parts of the popsicles. Place each color in a separate bowl and microwave until the popsicle has melted. Separately measure out β cup of each popsicle color.
- Divide the cake mix into thirds. Each third should be a little more than 1 cup. Place each cup of cake mix into a separate bowl.
- Spray the cake pans with non-stick spray. Preheat the oven to 325ΛF.
- In the first bowl, add in 1 egg white, β cup of the red melted popsicle, and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Whisk until the ingredients are combined. Add in a few drops of the red food coloring and mix. Divide the batter between 2 of the cake pans.
- In the second bowl, add in 1 egg white, β cup of the white melted popsicle, and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Whisk until combined then divide the batter between 2 of the remaining cake pans.
- In the third bowl, add in 1 egg white, β cup of the blue melted popsicle, and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Mix until combined. Divide the batter between the last 2 cake pans.
- Place the cake pans into the oven to bake for 25-230 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove the cakes from the cake pans and allow them to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Use a star shaped cookie cutter to cut out a star from the center of the red and white cakes.
- Transfer the frosting into a piping bag fitted with a circle tip.
- Pipe the frosting onto the top of one of the red cake layers, going around the star cut-out. Fill the star cut-out with pop rocks.
- Place one of the white cake layers on top of the red layer. Pipe the frosting on top, going around the star cut-out. Fill the star cut-out with pop rocks.
- Place one of the blue cake layers on top of the white layer. Proceed to frost the top and sides of the cake and repeat steps 10-12 to assemble the second cake with the remaining cakes.