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EatingWell: A patriotic pastry for your summer celebration

By Katie Webster, EatingWell on

Though this stunning red, white and blue American flag cake screams "Fourth of July cake," it's such a good dessert you'll want to make it for any summer party.

We made this flag cake recipe healthy, with less saturated fat and calories than traditional versions, by replacing some butter in the yellow sheet cake with oil. Plus, for the cream cheese frosting, we used reduced-fat cream cheese and low-fat Greek yogurt instead of full-fat cream cheese and butter. And for decorations we used fresh blueberries, strawberries and raspberries dusted with confectioners' sugar instead of loads of piped-on frosting.

Flag Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Serves 20

Active Time: 1 1/4 hours

Total Time: 3 hours

 

For the cake:

1 1/4 cups granulated sugar

1/3 cup canola oil

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature

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