Flag Cake with Cheesecake Topping

Good for picnics, potlucks, and BBQs, this Strawberry Poke Cake encompasses a creamy cheesecake topping and contemporary strawberries and blueberries for a deliciously patriotic deal with!

Ingredient Ideas for Flag Cake

• Cake Combine: This recipe is so versatile! White, yellow, pink velvet, and Funfetti flavors could be blended and matched with any taste of Jello.
• Jell-O: Apart from strawberry, strive orange, lemon, lime, blueberry, or cherry…and no want to purchase the title model.
• Frosting: Softened cream cheese, whipped topping (AKA Cool Whip), and a bit of sugar whip up into a light-weight and creamy icing that nestles every berry into place. No time? Use your favourite can of frosting.
• Berries: Select berries which might be roughly the identical measurement so they give the impression of being uniform, as ‘stripes’ within the American flag. Rows of raspberries can be utilized as an alternative of strawberries, or use a mix of each.
• Variations: Attempt different enjoyable decorations like patriotic sprinkles, gold or silver edible glitter, black or pink licorice whips to stipulate the strips, toasted coconut, or chocolate shavings.

Make-Forward & Leftover Ideas

Make the flag cake forward as much as Step 3. Cowl and maintain chilled till able to frost and add décor. Add fruit proper earlier than serving.

Cowl and retailer the flag cake within the fridge for as much as 3 days. To freeze leftover cake, take away the berries, reduce them into desired parts, and wrap them in plastic wrap. Switch the muffins to a zippered bag and freeze for as much as two months. Thaw within the fridge earlier than serving.

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Flag Cake with Cream Cheese Topping

This festive flag cake topped with a cream cheese topping is the proper dessert to your 4th of July or Canada Day events!

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time 35 minutes minutes

Chill Time 6 hours hours

Complete Time 6 hours hours 55 minutes minutes

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• Put together cake in a 9×13 pan in line with bundle instructions. Cool and poke the whole cake with a fork.

• Add 1 cup of boiling water to the jello combination and stir till all powder is dissolved. Stir in ½ cup chilly water. Gently pour over cake and refrigerate 4 hours.

For the Topping

• With a hand mixer, combine softened cream cheese and sugar till gentle and fluffy. Add whipped topping. Unfold over cake.

• If making a Canadian flag, reduce the strawberries from prime to backside to make a triangular form. Use the picture on this submit as a information to create a maple leaf form and place strawberries alongside the perimeters of the cake to resemble a flag.

• If making an American flag, create a blueberry rectangle within the prime left nook of the cake. Lower strawberries in half and place in rows.

• Refrigerate for two hours earlier than serving.

Serving Tip: Lower the cake into squares as soon as the Jell-O has set, earlier than including the cream cheese layer. Whenever you attain into the cake with a spatula it’s going to naturally elevate the place you’ve already reduce it, making it simple to serve!
Leftover cake could be saved within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Take away berries & freeze parts by wrapping them in plastic wrap after which placing the parts in a zippered bag. Thaw and serve. 

Energy: 173 | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 2g | Fats: 5g | Saturated Fats: 3g | Ldl cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 240mg | Potassium: 75mg | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 170IU | Vitamin C: 15.4mg | Calcium: 79mg | Iron: 0.7mg

Diet info offered is an estimate and can fluctuate primarily based on cooking strategies and types of elements used.

Course Cake, Dessert

Delicacies American

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