The Solid of Characters: Unsalted Butter, Sugar, Eggs, Bitter Cream, Vanilla, Flour, Cornstarch, Kosher Salt, Baking Soda, Cream Cheese, Powdered Sugar, Raspberries, and Blueberries.
Many of ingredients, but nothing too loopy.
You don’t need to thrill in a stand mixer. I wouldn’t delight in one myself, excluding an anonymous angel gave us one for a wedding gift. If fact be told, the donor didn’t mean to be anonymous; the gift card fell off and I never chanced on out who gave it to us. Not that it issues because I never done my thank you notes anyway. One other yarn for as soon as again.
Location 2¼ sticks of unsalted butter in a mixing bowl.
Add 3 cups of sugar.
Combine collectively on high till gentle and fluffy. A couple of minute or so.
Now add SIX eggs, two at a time. Combine after each and every addition of two.
Now measure 1 cup bitter cream…
Please, in the title of all that is flavorful and holy, terminate now no longer utilize low-stout bitter cream in this recipe.
Dump it into the integration bowl.
Now measure 1½ teaspoons vanilla…
…And add it to the bowl.
Now. Sift collectively 3 cups flour, 1/3 cup cornstarch, 1 teaspoon kosher salt (utilize 3/4 teaspoon traditional salt whenever you don’t delight in kosher), and 1 teaspoon baking soda.
I in general skip the sifting step as sifting makes me loopy…but I continually terminate it for this recipe because Barefoot Contessa tells me to.
Now flip mixer to low and gradually add the flour combination to the butter/sugar combination, one scoop at a time.
Combine after every addition.
Abet including the flour combination…
And mix till correct blended. Pause now no longer over mix!
Barefoot Contessa says to butter and flour the pan, which I’ve done in years previous…that is till I chanced on the unusual miracle of Baker’s Joy.
Spray large sheet cake pan generously. The measurements of this pan are 17 x 12½. Present: This recipe could well additionally fair be halved for a smaller pan, as this recipe feeds an navy.
Pour the thick cake batter into the pan. It’s a lot thicker than traditional cake batters.
With a knife or offset spatula, originate spreadin’ the suggestions…I mean, originate spreadin’ the cake batter evenly over the pan.
Make certain you procure some for your finger so that it’s good to well presumably delight in a lick or two.
I’m a right believer in offset spatulas. Offset spatulas and world peace.
Now pop the pan into a preheated 350˚ oven and bake for 20 to 30 minutes, till a toothpick comes out fine. I baked mine for precisely 20 minutes, so that you just nearly no doubt are making an strive to originate checking then.
Right here’s the baked cake—mmmmm. Nice, golden perfection.
Time to manufacture the entirely-out-of-this-world cream cheese frosting.
Rob 1½ kilos, or three 8-ounce programs cream cheese. No, you can well presumably’t utilize low-stout. We’re celebrating our independence right here, other folks.
And 1 pound—four total sticks—unsalted butter.
Throw the butter and cream cheese in the integration bowl…
Whip to combine.
Now add 1 pound of powdered sugar…
And 1½ teaspoons vanilla.
Combine till thoroughly blended, scraping the perimeters as soon as at some level of blending.
Oh Lord, as Mike would speak. Honestly, this frosting by myself is kind of a confection. Very now no longer vulnerable to face up to. The sooner you procure it on the cake and maintain the integration bowl with sizzling, sudsy water, the upper off you’ll be.
Plop about ½ the frosting on the cake…
And originate spreadin’ the suggestions.
There’s that offset spatula again. It’s my fair appropriate friend.
After the cake is frosted, designate off the dwelling of the stars with a toothpick.
No need to be proportionately honest; correct guesstimate.
Pause you would need got one thing else delight in this? It’s correct a creep-of-the-mill pastry make a choice up with an unlimited large title tip. I got this one at Walmart in a pinch.
I in general utilize this one, but I mediate my rubbish disposal ate my steel large title tip that goes with it. Honestly, the Walmart model works correct fair appropriate-attempting for this cake.
Comprise the pastry make a choice up 2/3 beefy with icing.
Then, right here’s how I withhold the icing from splurging out the tip. Fold down each and every corners…
Admire you’re making a paper hat, most effective with a plastic pastry make a choice up from Walmart.
Fold down the very tip, then withhold folding down a couple of occasions.
This list doesn’t sigh it, but I’m absorbing the folded-down reside tightly below my fingertips. Originate up by squeezing two lines of frosting on the backside of the cake.
Now wash and pat dry roughly 4 half-pints raspberries.
Originate up making two rows of raspberries on the cake.
After you would need got two rows, add one more two lines of frosting…
And correct withhold repeating: two lines of frosting, two lines of raspberries, two lines of frosting…and so forth.
Now maintain the square in the corner with a nice layer of blueberries. Excessive in antioxidants!
You’d additionally additionally be device more right than I turned into. Normally I will be able to’t be stricken with making the total lot completely lined up. It will perchance need one thing to entire with the four marauding savages below the age of ten I had running through my kitchen.
With the large title tip, squeeze shrimp dollops of frosting all around the put the blueberries to reveal the “stars.”
No need to be historically honest; you obtained’t fit fifty on there.
This cake is continually a crowd pleaser, even whenever you don’t build end the time to manufacture orderly, straight lines, which I clearly did now no longer. The ornament is nice and splashy, however the right enchantment of this cake is the cake itself. Or now no longer it is beyond successfully to attach, dense, and out of this world, and these dadgum berries in actual fact fool you into believing you’re ingesting a healthy dessert.
Nonetheless Fourth of July most effective comes every year, so don’t accept as true with it.
Now high-tail forth and fabricate this cake! Barefoot Contessa will be proud.
