Fourth Of July Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 c. sugar
6 tsp. baking powder
2 c. milk
2 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 c. shortening
4 c. flour
2 tsp. salt
1 pt. sliced strawberries
1 pt. blueberries
1 large bowl Cool Whip

Preparation

Put the first 8 ingredients in bowl; mix by hand until smooth. Bake in a 9 x 13-inch pan at 350\u00b0 until cake tester comes out clean (about 45 minutes to 1 hour).
When cake is cool, slice into 2 layers and remove top layer.
Sprinkle 1/2 of each kind of berry over bottom layer.
Replace top layer.
Spread whipped topping on top.
Arrange remaining berries to look like the American flag (small rows of blueberries in a small square in upper left hand corner and strawberries in horizontal rows across the rest of the cake).