Prep: 20 minutes Plus cooling Bake: 26

For Galentine’s Day this year, I wanted something special and here is that. I found this recipe and tweaked some parts to make something super amazing and out of this world. This is a butter cake with berries and cream cheese melding together to perfection. Let’s jump in.

Ingredients

• 1 box golden butter cake mix

• 3 large eggs

• 7 tbls softened butter

• 2 cup water

• 12 oz frozen mixed berries (blue berry, raspberry, blackberry)

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 4 tbs cornstarch

• 1 can cream cheese icing

• Fresh berries as desired

Prep

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F

2. Use the instructions on the box mix with the eggs, butter and some water to mix as directed

3. Pour into a 13 x 9 pan and bake for 26 minutes or as box says based on your pan type

4. When done baking set aside to cool fully

5. In a sauce pan add the sugar, 1/2 cup water and the frozen berries on medium to low heat

6. Stir this as it warms and starts to boil gently to smash the berries and all but liquefy them

7. When the berries have broken up, in a small bowl add 1/2 cup of water and the corn starch and mix it well. Be fast so it doesn’t harden!

8. Pour this in with the berries and stir mixing it well

9. This will turn into basically a jelly, (compote is the actual name I learned) You want that jelly like state where it’s solidifying together

10. Add this too a bowl and put into the fridge to chill

11. When cake is fully cooled and the compote has cooled completely and seems a bit more solid, take whatever you have and spread the berries all over the top. This will be a top layer of the cake. Smear it nice and good

12. Take the cream cheese and carefully cover the berries. I added small blobs all over and pressed out to flatten it. If it mixes, that’s ok

13. Add your fresh berries on top as a final decoration

Afterthoughts

This was so good. I found this recipe as a raspberry sheet cake and the changes I made were amazing. The wildberry compote was not too sweet and was simply amazing. I loved it. The cake being a butter cake was a great, not too sweet contrast to the berries as was the cream cheese icing. It all came together wonderfully. I would easily make this again and for more occasions. It is the perfect treat to share with loved ones that excites the taste buds and surprises them!