Happy Birthday America

i hope everyone had a fabulous 4th of july! yesterday morning i was planning on posting, but the day got away from me. we had some friends staying with us, and this cute little thing got to come too:

our pups were so excited to meet their cousins (yes, my best friends' dogs are my dogs' cousins because i am their aunt)

after they left, i had been dying to bake this Ina Garten flag cake cake for the holiday.

the recipe does take a little time, but it is definitely worth it--especially for the icing!

everything has to be at room temperature, so it's much easier to take them out of their packaging and let them sit. these are the wet ingredients : eggs, sour cream, butter, and vanilla

here are all the dry ingrediants: flour, granulated sugar, baking soda, corn starch, and salt

these are the ingredients for the icing (so delicious!): butter, cream cheese, powder sugar, and vanilla

and....

Voila! of course my own version of a sheet cake (because i'm not feeding 24)

but still delicious....enjoy!