{"id":5336,"date":"2014-06-22T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.com\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2014-06-22T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:57:36","slug":"canadian-flag-cake-surprise-inside-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiescupcakesandcardio.co\/?p=5336","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Flag Cake for Canada Day (Surprise Inside Cake)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The flag is the symbol of the nation’s unity, for it, beyond any doubt, represents all the citizens of Canada without distinction of race, language, belief or opinion.”<\/em> Honourable Maurice Bourget, Speaker of the Senate, 1965
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In Canada we celebrate our Nation each July 1.\u00a0 Our Canadian flag is a very simple design . . . red panels on each side of the flag, in the middle white with a red maple leaf in the centre.\u00a0 I THOUGHT this would be an easy cake to make.\u00a0 I thought wrong.\u00a0 Very wrong.<\/p>\n

After the success of our American Flag cake tutorial<\/a> that we put out for the Forth of July last year (2013), I knew that this year, I HAD to make one for my country!\u00a0 When I started out, I thought it would be super simple, and I would find success the first time out.\u00a0 Not-so-much.\u00a0 6 practice cakes later, I had finally nailed it, and it was ready to be filmed for YouTube stardom!<\/p>\n

I wanted a very distinct maple leaf in the centre of the flag, and with that, I caused myself a problem.\u00a0 The maple leaf kept coming out of the second bake missing sections of the leaf, or looking like a red blob.\u00a0 I tried cutting the maple leaves out of regular cake, using cakepop mix, and I tried prebaked sugar cookies, until finally, when I had almost given up, I thought I would try freezing the section I needed for cutting the leaves out.\u00a0 Thankfully, it worked!\u00a0<\/p>\n