I just took my cake out of the oven so I haven't tasted it yet. It looks great. Took a couple of minutes past 45 minutes but of course each oven is slightly different. One "problem" however. I made the cake EXACTLY according to the recipe but ran out of chocolate batter. I had to take more of the white batter and add extra cocoa to it so that I didn't end up with a white bulls-eye in the center. What a great idea! I've done cheesecake like this in the past but never thought of doing a regular cake like that. With regard to doing it in red, white and blue, I volunteer at a canteen for soldiers and someone brought in a vanilla cake with tinted red batter The cake tasted pretty good but no one wanted to eat it. The red color really was offputting. I think a red, white and blue cake might not look as great as everyone thinks. I'd be curious though to hear from anyone who tries it.

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