Fourth-of-July Cake

So, this Independence Day I decided to make a red, white, and blue cake. It's was pretty easy to do, and tasted delicious. I wish I had had more time to make it look gorgeous and do the cake from scratch, but I was definitely in a time crunch. Oh well!

1 Red Velvet cake mix box
       and required ingredients for the cake mix (most likely: eggs, oil, and water)
1 small tub of cream cheese (I used fat-free)
1 package of white chocolate chips
Some vanilla extract
About 3/4 cup of powdered sugar
1 tub of whipped topping (I used lite)
Blue food coloring

1. Make the cake mix according to the directions, and bake in two round pans (I used 9").

2. While the cake is baking, Mix together the tub of cream cheese, a splash of vanilla, and the powdered sugar until smooth. (This will be the filling in between the layers.)

3. Mix together the whipped topping and some food coloring until it is the desired blue. Set aside both the filling and the blue whip in the fridge until later.

4. With your microwave on 50% power, melt the chocolate chips in a bowl stirring every 30 seconds until smooth. DO NOT OVERHEAT.

5. On a baking pan lined with parchment paper, drizzle the white chocolate 'soup' into abstract squiggles or star shapes. Stick into the freezer to set.

6. When the cake is done, remove from the oven and let cool completely before removing from pans and decorating. I put the cream cheese frosting in between the cake layers, and then frosted them all over with the blue whip. Then I studded the whole cake with the white chocolate 'stars'.

Variations: Make cream cheese frostings tinted; use cream cheese frosting for the whole cake instead of only the filling; fill with vanilla bean mousse; color the white chocolate. And on and on. Be creative! :)