I wanted to do something fantastic and new for the 4th and found some variations of this cake. I had never worked with layers before and made this one six layers high! It has a multicolored inside (see other picture). The stars and stripes are AirHeads. They are very difficult to mold into stars. It worked barely with a combination of heating them, beating them and cursing at them lol. The little candy stars I found in a superman candy dispenser and the rim of the hat is just an cardboard circle with icing.