A traditional American flag cake made with a cream cheese sheet cake and lightweight cream cheese whipped frosting. This can be a excellent 4th of July cake topped with contemporary berries and, when you’re feeling significantly Texan, adorned because the Texas flag.
It seems, the quantity of GIANT Texas flags that dot the interstate throughout Houston are contagious. The Texas flag is as iconic as my old fashioned pound cake recipe so it solely made sense to affix the 2.
Simply in time for the 4th of July additional lengthy vacation weekend, right here’s one among my favourite July desserts – cake, whipped cream, and contemporary summer time berries.
Right here’s how!
Listed below are the substances you’ll have to make this Texas-style 4th of July Cake:
• unsalted butter, softened to room temperature (plenty of it)
• cream cheese, additionally softened
• contemporary strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries
• giant eggs
• granulated sugar
• vanilla extract and almond extract when you’re into that kind of factor
• baking powder
• kosher salt
• powdered sugar
• heavy cream
Place softened butter, cream cheese, and granulated sugar within the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment.
Beat for five to 7 minutes to aerate and fluff the fat with the sugar. Add a splash of vanilla and a splash of almond extract. Almond extract MAKES a cake for my part.
Beat in eggs, one by one for a couple of minute between every addition. Cease the mixer and scrape down the edges of the bowl sometimes. Incorporating the eggs slowly like this may assist make the cake gentle and tender so don’t rush.
Whisk collectively the dry substances earlier than slowly beating into the butter and cream cheese combination. Give it a superb whip and scrape the underside of the bowl with a rubber spatula to seek out any hidden unmixed pockets.
Spoon the cake batter right into a greased and parchment lined pan. Unfold the batter in an excellent layer with a offset spatula. It’s a thick and wealthy batter. It’s giving luxurious. It’s giving wealth.
Bake the cake within the higher third of the oven till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear or with a number of moist crumbs (not moist batter).
This can be a dense pound cake type sheet cake that received’t dome however will bake to a beautiful crackly golden prime.
Whereas the cake bakes, we’ll take advantage of gentle and fluffy cream cheese frosting. This frosting is a mixture between thick cream cheese frosting and sweetened whipped cream. Cream cheese stabilizes whipped cream and whipped cream lightened cream cheese. It’s an ideal praise for this sturdy cake.
You may depart this cake within the pan to frost and embellish, particularly when you’re taking it to a celebration. If you wish to serve it on a board, elevate the cake from the pan, scoot it off the parchment paper, and swoop with frosting.
Adorning the cake with contemporary berries is my favourite half. For those who’re going Texan, reduce a star form out of the cake earlier than frosting. Frost the cake, divide it into thirds and layer cake with blue berries, pink berries, and banana slices.
For those who’re going for an American flag cake, you understand how to make it a complete stars and stripes scenario.
Ideas for assembling your 4th of July cake:
Frost and chill the cake till you’re able to serve (or prepared to move to a barbecue). Simply earlier than serving, layer with berries and bananas and rechill earlier than serving. I believe this cake is greatest served chilled.
The flavour is easy, candy and summery. A really contemporary 4th of July second. And what would a slice of cake be with no few fireworks?
For those who’re extra of a boxed cake combine babe, you can also make a equally festive cake utilizing this coconut cake recipe or this strawberry cake. No improper solutions.
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The (Texas) Flag Cake made with Cream Cheese Pound Cake and Frosting
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Directions
- Place a rack within the higher third of the oven and preheat oven to 325 levels F. Calmly grease a 9×13-inch pan. Reduce a chunk of parchment paper that matches within the pan lengthwise with a number of inches of overhang to make the cake simpler to elevate out of the pan when you’d like. Calmly grease the parchment paper, too.
- In a medium bowl, whisk collectively flour, baking powder, and salt. Put aside.
- Within the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat collectively butter, cream cheese, and sugar on medium pace. Beat till fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Cease the mixer sometimes and scrape down the edges of the bowl. Improve pace to medium-high for 1 minute or so. Beat within the vanilla and splash of almond extract.
- On low pace, beat the eggs into the batter one by one, beating for 1 minute between every addition.
- Cease the mixer and add the dry substances suddenly. Beat on low speeds till the flour simply disappears. Cease the mixer and use a rubber spatula to scrape into the underside of the bowl to include any hidden pockets of unmixed batter or flour.
- Whip the batter for 45-60 seconds on medium-high pace on the mixer simply to completely incorporate the batter.
- Spoon the batter into the ready pan and clean to an excellent layer.
- Bake till the cake is golden and puffed, till a cake skewer inserted within the cake comes out clear or with a number of moist crumbs, 60-65 minutes. Rotate the cake as soon as throughout baking.
- Enable the cake to chill fully earlier than frosting.
- Make the frosting whereas the cake cools. To make the frosting, within the bowl of a stand mixer with a whisk attachment, addd softened cream cheese, powdered sugar, and salt. Beat on medium pace to melt the cream cheese additional and incorporate the substances. Cease the mixer and bang the whisk on the facet of the bowl to empty the whisk, and scrape down the edges of the bowl and proceed to combine to completely soften the cream cheese.
- With the mixer on medium pace, slowly add the heavy cream to the mixer. Because the combination begins to thicken, cease the mixer and scrape down the bowl the edges of the bowl earlier than beating on excessive pace to comfortable however stiff peaks.
- To assemble the cake, resolve when you’re going to maintain the cake within the pan or serve it exterior of the pan. Fastidiously elevate the cake out when you’ve chosen that journey. For those who’re making a Texas flag, use a star formed cookie cutter to chop a star out of the left facet of the cake and elevate the star out. Spoon a lot of the frosting in heaps throughout the cake and swoosh with an offset spatula. Reserve a few of the frosting to pipe stars throughout the cake.
- Chill the cake and prime the cake with berries near serving.
- For the blue part of the flag, layer blueberries and blackberries. Prime with the star and some stars of frosting.
- For the pink part, layer raspberries and strawberries and prime with a number of stars of frosting.
- For the white part (I do that simply earlier than serving the cake), layer with banana slices and some stars of frosting.
- Take pleasure in cake chilled.