American Flag Sheet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Makes a double layered 9 by 13 cake

Ingredients

Cake

• 1 boxed cake mix 

or

• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup whole milk
• 3/4 cup vegetable oil
• 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Frosting and Decorating

• 1 stick of butter, room temperature
• 1 8 oz package of cream cheese, room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 cups of powdered sugar
• 1 pint blueberries
• 2 pints raspberries

Filling

• 3/4 cup seedless raspberry or strawberry jam
• 2-3 TBSP water

Directions

Cake

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F . Spray two 9x13-inch rectangular baking pans with non-stick spray. Grease the paper and the sides of the pan well. 
2. Prepare box cake to package instructions. Reduce cooking time by 5-8 minutes since you are baking two thinner 9 by 13 cakes instead of one thick one. OR In a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer, beat sugar and eggs together until smooth, about 1 minute. Add flour, milk, oil, baking powder, and vanilla and beat for another minute, just until the batter is smooth and creamy. Don't overbeat. Pour batter evenly into the prepared baking pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until the tops are golden and a toothpick poked into the center of the layer comes out clean. Loosen the sides of the cake from the pan with a thin knife, then turn out onto a rack. Let cool completely before frosting.

Frosting and Decorating

1. Cream butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer. Add vanilla. Add powdered sugar in 4 parts while beating with the electric mixer in between.
2. Frost the top of one of the cakes. Place the second cake round on top. Frost the top and sides of the cake.
3. Combine the jam and water to make the filling. Spread evenly over the first layer of frosting.
4. Layer the second cake on top and frost the top and all sides.
5. Line five rows of 10 blueberries (or however many fit comfortably) in the top left corner.
6. Use a ruler to evenly measure rows of raspberries.

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