Patriotic Poke Cake

Name: Patriotic Poke Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: 5 ounces (1 cup), blueberries; 1 1/4 cups, water; 1/4 cup (1¾ ounces), sugar; 2 tablespoons, berry-flavored gelatin; 7 1/2 ounces (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

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2010

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

SERVES12

TIME1½ hours, plus 3 hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a Patriotic Poke Cake that screamed red, white, and blue all the way through, we cooked blueberries and strawberries to create two separate syrups to drizzle over our white cake. Poking holes into the top of the cake allowed us to incor...

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