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Who knew that being patriotic could be so delicious? Check out our list of Fourth of July dessert ideas. Fireworks won’t be the only thing wowing the crowd.
Fourth of July is all about red, white, and blue, and your picnic desserts are no exception! These easy and colorful Fourth of July dessert ideas are sure to wow your guests, and the best part is they won’t have you slaving over a hot stove all day.
Keep reading for 6 patriotic desserts you should put on your Fourth of July picnic menu.
1. Firecracker Cupcakes
These couldn’t be easier! Use white cake mix and vanilla frosting and food coloring to make red, white, and blue cupcakes. You can do each cupcake one color or swirl red and blue food coloring to mix things up! Color the frosting with food coloring too and then use Pop-Rocks candy as the sprinkles.
Kids will love the pops of candy when they eat them!
2. Red, White, and Fruit Kabobs
These don’t require any baking and are a healthy addition to your dessert table. Use wooden skewers to alternate strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and mini-marshmallows.
These are so simple that you can put the kids in charge of them!
3. Star-Spangled Poke Cake
This colorful poke cake couldn’t be easier. Use boxed white cake mix and follow the directions on the box to bake the cake.
Then use the end of a wooden spoon to poke holes in the cake, pour raspberry or strawberry sauce over the entire thing, then top with fruit and whipped cream.
When you cut into it, you’ll see red and white stripes.
4. Flag Cake
The flag cake is super versatile because you can use whatever you want as your base. White cake, yellow cake, shortcake, pound cake, whatever your heart desires.
Once you have your base ready to go, use whipped cream, buttercream frosting, or another whipped frosting to frost the cake. Then use strawberries (or raspberries) and blueberries to create stars and stripes.
You can make this cake as healthy or as rich as you like!
5. Red, White, and Blue Strawberries
Looking for a last-minute dessert to bring to a picnic? These red, white, and blue strawberries come together in 10 minutes or less.
Melt white chocolate chips or white melting chocolate in the microwave, dip the strawberry in the chocolate (about 3/4 of the way up) and then dip the bottom fourth of the strawberry in blue sugar sprinkles.
Place on a sheet of wax paper or parchment paper to dry and wow your guests with a dessert that looks fancy but took just minutes to make.
6. Strawberry Pretzel Salad
Strawberries and pretzels don’t sound like your typical salad, right? Although it’s not very salad-like, strawberry pretzel salad brings together salty and sweet flavors perfect for your cookout.
The crust is made of pretzels, the middle layer of cream cheese and confectioner’s sugar, and the top layer is a mix of fresh strawberries and strawberry jello.
Which Fourth of July Dessert Ideas Are on Your Menu?
These Fourth of July dessert ideas are all so delicious; it will be hard to decide which one to make this 4th! Since they’re all so simple, don’t just make one of them!
Check out our other food posts for more recipes and ideas for your meal plans and cookouts.
