Flag Cake with Cheesecake Topping

Excellent for picnics, potlucks, and BBQs, this Strawberry Poke Cake incorporates a creamy cheesecake topping and recent strawberries and blueberries for a deliciously patriotic deal with!

Ingredient Ideas for Flag Cake

• Cake Combine: This recipe is so versatile! White, yellow, purple velvet, and Funfetti flavors might 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 identify model.
• Frosting: Softened cream cheese, whipped topping (AKA Cool Whip), and a little bit 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 are roughly the identical measurement so they appear uniform, as ‘stripes’ within the American flag. Rows of raspberries can be utilized as an alternative of strawberries, or use a mixture of each.
• Variations: Attempt different enjoyable decorations like patriotic sprinkles, gold or silver edible glitter, black or purple 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 hold 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, lower 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 in your 4th of July or Canada Day events!

Prep Time 20 minutes minutes

Prepare dinner Time 35 minutes minutes

Chill Time 6 hours hours

Whole Time 6 hours hours 55 minutes minutes

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• Put together cake in a 9×13 pan based on package deal 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 mild and fluffy. Add whipped topping. Unfold over cake.

• If making a Canadian flag, lower the strawberries from prime to backside to make a triangular form. Use the picture on this put up 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. If you attain into the cake with a spatula it can naturally raise the place you’ve already lower it, making it straightforward to serve!
Leftover cake might 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 data supplied is an estimate and can range primarily based on cooking strategies and types of components used.

Course Cake, Dessert

Delicacies American

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