American Flag Cake
This colorful and delicious American Flag Cake is the perfect recipe to celebrate the 4th of July! It’s a super moist sheet cake with a cream cheese frosting and topped fresh berries arranged like the American flag!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 220 g Vegetable oil
- 400 g Granulated sugar
- 4 Eggs (room temperature)
- 240 g Yogurt, thick Greek or Turkish style (room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 375 g All-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon Baking powder
- 2 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 600 g Cream cheese (full fat (33%+) eg. Philadelphia)
- 200 g Mascarpone (full fat (41%+))
- 100 g Powdered sugar (sifted)
- 500 g Strawberries (medium sized strawberries cut into half)
- 100 g Blueberries
Instructions
- 1
Start with making the half sheet cake
- 2
Heat oven to 180°C / 356°F and line a Half Sheet Pan with parchment paper.
- 3
Whisk together the room temperature yogurt, eggs, sugar, and oil. Then add the vanilla extract.
- 4
Sift the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together in a separete bowl.
- 5
Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients using a Rubber Spatula. Mix just until combined.
- 6
Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with an offset spatula.
- 7
Bake the cake at 180°C / 356°F for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- 8
Let the cake completely cool before frosting. No need to remove it from the pan.
- 9
Prepare the cream cheese frosting
- 10
Whip the cream cheese, mascarpone, and powdered sugar with an electric mixer for 2-3 minutes, until fluffy. Do not over whip as it can become runny.
- 11
Assemble the American Flag Cake
- 12
Spread about half of the frosting on the surface of the sheet cake in a thin layer. Then put the rest of the frosting into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle tip.
- 13
Arrange the strawberry halves and blueberry pieces as seen in the picture according to the American flag. There should be 50 blueberries and 7 horizontal lines of strawberries.
- 14
Pipe the remaining frosting in between the lines of strawberries.
- 15
The cake can be served immediately or refrigerated for 1-2 days.