14 Patriotic Desserts
When it comes to celebrating a patriotic holiday, nothing hits more than red, white and blue patriotic desserts. Whether you’re firing up the grill for a backyard hangout or just want to sprinkle some star-spangled sweetness into your holiday gathering, these patriotic desserts are as tasty as they are decorative. So today I’ve rounded up a mix of yummy treats that’ll have your taste buds waving the American flag to. Now let’s dive into these red, white and blue delicious desserts.
1. Red, White & Blue Berry Trifle
This red, white and blue layered trifle is both beautiful and delicious. Made with blueberries, strawberries, angel food cake and a cream filling, it’s sure to please at any gathering. Such a beautiful patriotic dessert!
2. Flag Cake with Cheesecake Topping
This strawberry poke cake is decorated with cheesecake topping and fresh berries arranged as a flag for the patriotic holiday, and when served, it’s just as colorful on the inside.
Recipe from Spend With Pennies
3. Red-White-Blue Sugar Cookie Bars
If you love sugar cookies, these sugar cookie bars will hit the spot with patriotic red, white and blue star sprinkles, topped with a white frosting and tiny star sprinkles.
4. Berry Chantilly Cake
Here’s a real show-stopper for your patriotic holiday. This berry Chantilly cake is gorgeous inside and out, as well as delicious. Packed with fresh berries and cream who can resist this patriotic dessert.
5. Strawberry Shortcake Cookie Cups
These strawberry shortcake cookie cups are a tasty dessert that combines the flavor of a cookie cup with strawberry and whipped cream in a delicious and patriotic bite-size dessert. Why not try them for your next 4th of July picnic gathering.
6. Strawberry Pretzel Salad
Just look at how beautiful and refreshing this dessert looks. With a delicious pretzel crust, cream cheese filling and Jello strawberries it’s really not a salad, but perfect for any patriotic gathering.
Recipe from Spend With Pennies
7. Frozen Yogurt Bark
Here’s a refreshing white yogurt bark for a summer day filled with red and blue berries. Perfect for a Memorial day or 4th of July picnic and easy to prepare ahead of time.
8. Cherry Pie Bars
This cherry pie bar dessert is yummy and bursting with cherry filling, as wall as appealing and pretty to look at before everyone eats it!
9. Strawberry Poke Cake
This poke cake has a vanilla cake poked with strawberry sauce then topped with cream cheese-whip cream topping and fresh strawberries. It’s both beautiful and delicious for a patriotic holiday, or to make any day special.
Recipe from Life, Love and Sugar
10. Patriotic Dessert Fruit Kabobs
Put together with red and blue berries, angel food cake and marshmallows, this dessert is refreshing and comes together quickly for feeding your picnic guests.
Recipe from Family Food on the Table
11. No-Bake Patriotic Dessert Parfaits
I love these parfait cups because of their individual serving size and that you can easily make, chill and serve as a lovely 4th of July dessert. Made with real cream, cream cheese, cherry pie filling and a graham cracker crust, you can prepare these in plastic Dollar-store cups for a picnic and give each guest their own treat.
Recipe from Valya Taste of Home
12. Easy Berry Icebox Cake
Who doesn’t like ice box cake – especially made with fresh berries, graham crackers and homemade homemade whipped cream. This can be made ahead of time to soften up the crackers and then garnished with more whipped cream and fruit.
Recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction
13. Red Velvet Fireworks Cake
Here’s a great way to serve up red, white and blue with this red velvet cake with white icing and red and blue sprinkles. Its’ as pretty as it is a delicious patriotic dessert!
14. Patriotic Cake Mix M&M Cookies
Don’t these look delicious? These cake mix cookies are easy to make and are then decorated with red, white and blue m&m’s, mini kisses, icing and patriotic sprinkles.
Recipe from Kathyns Kitchen Blog