Flag Cake with Cheesecake Topping

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

Taste: This flag cake has a candy, fruity taste from strawberry Jell-O, balanced by a wealthy and creamy cream cheese topping.
Ability Degree: A boxed cake combine and a 3-ingredient topping make this cake beginner-friendly! The one onerous half might be not digging in earlier than your celebration.
Swaps: Change the Jell-O together with your favourite taste and select the fruit topping to match the flavour! Peach, anybody?!
Time-Saving Tip: Beat the warmth and freeze cooled poke muffins for summer season birthdays. Merely thaw, frost, and add your favourite berry toppers when able to serve.

a cake with a strawberry Canadian flag design

Ingredient Suggestions for Flag Cake

Cake Combine: This recipe is so versatile! White, yellow, pink velvet, and Funfetti flavors might be combined 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 bit sugar whip up into a lightweight 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 dimension 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 mixture of each.
Variations: Strive 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.

a pice of Flag Cake on a plate with berries

Make-Forward & Leftover Suggestions

Make the flag cake forward as much as Step 3. Cowl and preserve 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

Cook dinner Time 35 minutes

Chill Time 6 hours

Complete Time 6 hours 55 minutes

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Put together cake in a 9×13 pan based on package deal instructions. Cool and poke the complete 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, lower the strawberries from high 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 edges of the cake to resemble a flag.
If making an American flag, create a blueberry rectangle within the high left nook of the cake. Minimize strawberries in half and place in rows.
Refrigerate for two hours earlier than serving.

Serving Tip: Minimize 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 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.

Vitamin info supplied is an estimate and can range based mostly on cooking strategies and types of elements used.

Course Cake, Dessert

Delicacies American

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