Patriotic Poke Cake

Name: Patriotic Poke Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 5 ounces (142 grams/1 cup), blueberries; 1 1/4 cups, water; 1/4 cup (1¾ ounces/50 grams), sugar; 2 tablespoons, berry-flavored gelatin; 7 1/2 ounces (213 grams/1½ cups), strawberries, hulled; 1 tablespoon, strawberry-flavored gelatin; 2 (9-inch), baked white cake rounds, cooled completely and still in pans; 4 cups, lightly sweetened whipped cream

Desserts or Baked Goods
Fruit
Cakes
Great American Cakes

Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2010

Flavored gelatin and fresh berries give white cake layers stripes of ruby red and berry blue.

SERVES 12

TIME 1½ hours, plus 3 hours chilling

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