With the 4th of July coming up fast I thought I’d share a few red white and blue dessert ideas with you today. It can be as simple as strawberries, blueberries, and real whipped cream, but if you want to get a little fancier here are a few yummy desserts for you to check out this Independence Day.

Flag Cake~ This is the standard for every 4th of July celebration, right?
Red White and Blue Cookies
Red White and Blueberry Trifle
Red White and Blue Cupcake Flag
Red White and Blue Summer Individual Pudding
Red White and Blueberry Parfaits
Red White and Blue Bundt Cake
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Memorial Day is all about spending time with family and friends. Here are ten dessert ideas that are fast to make, offer a hint of summer, and are positively delicious!

Fruit Pizza
This one has a cookie dough crust with cream cheese filling. They recommend rolling out a ready to use sugar cookie dough. Top with the fruit of your choice.
Angel Lush
If you’re looking for something different to do with angel food cake, this might be the recipe for you. With ingredients like pineapple, pudding, and Cool Whip, it’s also an easy one to make.
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Every midwest mom has a different variation of this patriotic dessert. I like the one pictured, using chocolate cake and white icing. The constant in all of the recipes is that a flag is created on the top of the cake using blueberries for the stars and strawberries for the stripes. For some other Flag Cake ideas, see:

Breyer’s Ice Cream Flag Cake
Flag Cake with whipped cream from Cooks.com
The Barefoot Contessa’s Flag Cake from the Food Network
Flag Cake with Jello and marshmellows from Glenda’s Attic Blog
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