Fourth of July Cake
- 2 cups sifted cake flour
- 3 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
- 34 teaspoon salt
- 3 medium egg whites
- 1 14 cups granulated sugar
- 12 cup soft shortening
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup milk
- white fudge frosting (search recipes)
- 1 12 pints fresh strawberries
- 25 blueberries
- A Fourth of July cake to bake, frost, take and serve, all in the same pan -- strawberries for red stripes, lush white frosting for white stripes, and blueberry stars studded on more frosting.
- The white cake was baked the day before.
- For the picnic's grand finale, unfurl your flag to celebrate the day and delight all tastes.
- DAY BEFORE PICNIC.
- Start heating oven to 375F Grease, then flour bottom of 13x9x2-inch pan, or a covered bake pan of same size.
- Onto waxed paper, sift flour with baking powder and salt.
- In small bowl, with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites until foamy; then gradually add 1/4 cup sugar while beating, until mixture holds soft peaks; set aside.
- In a large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, cream soft shortening with 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy -- 2 minutes.
- Then add the vanilla and almond extracts.
- At low speed, add flour mixture alternately with milk until just blended.
- Scrape bowl, beaters; at same speed, blend in beaten egg whites just until smooth.
- Bake 25 to 27 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan, on rack.
- When cool, decorate cake, in pan, with White Fudge Frosting (search site) as follows: With frosting, in waxed-paper cones or pastry bag, and tube no.
- 45, make 6 lengthwise stripes, about 1/2-inch wide, equidistant from each other, across cake, starting 3/4-inch up from bottom edge, and ending 3/4-inch down from top.
- This leaves alternate unfrosted stripes.
- Also, in upper left-hand corner of cake, frost a 5" by 5" field for the stars.
- Then cover cake with foil and refrigerate.
- EARLY ON PICNIC DAY.
- Wash, hull, dry strawberries.
- Slice in half lengthwise, then lay between white stripes on cake, as pictured; also along top and bottom edges of cake, making 7 rows of strawberries in all.
- Place 25 blueberries, well-drained, in field of frosting.
- Cover cake, then refrigerate.
- JUST BEFORE LEAVING FOR PICNIC.
- Pack pan of cake in insulated picnic carrier.
- AT DESERT TIME.
- Cut cake between rows of strawberries; serve from pan.
cake flour, doubleacting baking powder, salt, egg whites, sugar, shortening, vanilla, almond, milk, white fudge frosting, fresh strawberries, blueberries
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/fourth-of-july-cake-131770 (may not work)