by Tonya L. Howe

Created on: June 12, 2008   Last Updated: June 17, 2008

Easy, Quick, 4th of July Dessert Ideas

Patriotic Dessert Pizza

Buy a ready-made cookie dough roll and make one huge pizza crust out of it on a round cookie sheet. Top it with any red, white and blue things you like, you can use cool whip or marshmallow fluff or red or blue jell-o for the pizza sauce and then pile on blueberries, strawberries, cherries, anything red, white or blue goes! Let the kids help!

Angel Easy

Buy an angel food cake. Slice it into 3 layers, slicing it so it is still round like a donut, only thinner, in three pieces. Now you can put some cherry pie filling in between each layer and a little on the top with some blueberries on top and a puff of cool whip with a cherry and a couple of blueberries sitting in the cool whip puff.

Jell-o Cake

Make a white cake mix. Divide it into two round cake pans and bake. When cool, poke holes in the cakes with a fork. Make red jell-o and pour half of it on one cake layer. Make blue jell-o and pour half of it on the other cake layer. You can use the other half of each to make the jell-o cups below if you are only making a few. Now after the cakes set you put them together with some marshmallow fluff, not a lot, just enough to make them hold together. Frost the cake with any white, light and fluffy frosting. You can mix in cool whip with the frosting to make it even lighter. You can decorate the top if you like, or, for a more subtle cake, leave it plain and let guests be surprised when you cut it open to reveal the patriotic colors. I think it would be nice to put some little flags all around on it.

Jell-o Cups

Buy the little clear solo cups and make red jell-o and blue jell-o and after they are set, and shortly before you are planning to serve them you layer red jell-o, cool whip, blue jell-o in the cup with cool whip on top and then add marshmallow stars and a sprinkling of red and blue sugar crystals. You can use real glass glasses or dessert cups if you desire, so long as they are clear to show the red, white and blue layers.

Flag Cake

Make a rectangular sheet cake and frost it with cool whip. Put blueberries in the square area where the stars go. The spaces between the blueberries represent the stars.

Layer sliced strawberries in rows, gently layering each slice over the previous, for the flag stripes. The white rows in between strawberry layers represent the white stripes.

There is a similar cake at this link so you can view the picture, however, they did not slice the strawberries like I do so they are thinner and you can slightly layer them over each other.

Fabulous Foods.com
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/4th/4 th.html

Want more? Check out this Familyfun.com 4th of July dessert link:
http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/special feature/july-4th-cakes/

Want more 4th of July party ideas?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/21389 3/4th_of_july_party_ideas.html

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