Recipe - Stars And Stripes Cake

CAKE BATTER
1 One half Sticks unsalted butter; at
room temperature
2 cup Sugar
4 lg Eggs; at room temperature
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
2 cup Allpurpose flour; (gently
spoon flour
; into cup and level
; off)
One half teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Baking soda
2/3 cup Sour cream

WHIPPED CREAM
1 cup Heavy whipping cream
2 tablespoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

DECORATION
2 Baskets fresh raspberries;
or 1 pint
; strawberries,
; rinsed, hulled and
; cut or sliced up
1 pt Blueberries; rinsed, picked
over
; and drained

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and set a rack in the middle level. Butter and
flour a 9 by 13 by 2inch pan.

Beat the butter by machine with the sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Beat
in the extract. Mix the flour with the salt and baking soda and add it
alternately to the batter with the sour cream, beginning and ending with
the flour. Scrape down bowl and beater often during this stage of mixing.

Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and bake the cake about 40 minutes,
or until it is well risen and deep golden and a toothpick inserted in the
center emerges clean.

Cool the cake in the pan on a rack for a few minutes, then unmold and cool
completely. Wrap cake tightly in plastic wrap for storage.

For the whipped cream, combine all ingredients and whip on medium speed
until stiff.

To finish the cake, place the layer on a cardboard or platter and spread
with the cream. Arrange the blueberries in the upper left corner of the
cake, as on the starred field of a flag, then use the raspberries or
strawberries to make the red stripes, leaving stripes of uncovered whipped
cream between the stripes of berries. Chill cake until just before serving.

Yield: one 9 by 13 by 2inch cake

COPYRIGHT (c) NICK MALGIERI 1998, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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