It’s time to celebrate with red, white, and blue, and here are 15 of the Best 4th of July Dessert Recipes for a festive way to add some tasty treats to your patriotic celebration.
Cookouts, music, sparklers, flags, fireworks, and of course delicious summertime desserts for 4th of July are all part of a great celebration. We love our tasty treats, but honestly, there is nothing better than a great red, white and blue flag cake or colorful cookies decked out in patriotic sprinkles.
Read along for our favorite red, white and blue patriotic recipes ❤️🤍💙
Red, White & Blue Thumbprint Cookies by One Hot Oven
These tasty Red, White & Blue Thumbprint Cookies are all dressed up with the prettiest patriotic colored sprinkles and icing for a festive celebration.
4th of July Sugar Cookies by Swirls of Flavor
With just four basic kitchen ingredients and some patriotic food colors, you can celebrate our country’s birthday with our 4th of July Sugar Cookies. Easy to make, our colorful cookies are fun for kids and especially delicious too!
Red, White and Blueberry Pie by Grumpy’s Honeybunch
This show stopper Red, White, and Blueberry Pie is great for picnics, barbecues, and special summer celebrations. It was my go to dessert to take on our Memorial Day and 4th of July picnics.
Red, White & Blue Ice Cream Sundaes by One Hot Oven
The best thing for dessert in the summer is ice cream. Well, actually ice cream is good anytime, but something about summer and 4th of July just says, give me something cold and sweet. Homemade ice cream is the best, and today’s recipe for Red, White, & Blue Ice Cream Sundaes is no-churn so it’s quick, easy, and tasty, a perfect July dessert.
White Chocolate No Bake Cheesecake Pie by Restless Chipotle
This easy, no bake cheesecake pie has just 5 ingredients plus a graham cracker crust and an infinite number of variations. Takes less than 10 minutes to make!
When you need a delicious dessert that doesn’t take much effort this is a great recipe to have in your collection!
Fireworks Sugar Cookies by The Monday Box
Thanks to those who defend and protect our country, we have the freedom to celebrate our country on July 4th. My adopted soldier won’t be home to celebrate this year, so I sent him a patriotic celebration in a box, including Fireworks Sugar Cookies. Sparkling with sugar and swirled with red, white, and blue, Fireworks Sugar Cookies burst with sweet sugar cookie flavor!
Easy Red, White and Blue Trifle Jars by Boulder Locavore
4th of July desserts make the holiday all the more fun. Easy Red White and Blue Trifles are fresh, light and portable for all your holiday outings!
Don’t forget the whipped cream on top.
4th of July Sprinkle Cookies by One Hot Oven
Let’s get all Red, White, and Blue and celebrate July 4th with cookies and sprinkles. We love sprinkles and these patriotic 4th of July Red, White & Blue Cookies have a delicious surprise middle layer.
Summer Fruit Crisp by Studio Delicious
This is a fabulous mixed fruit dessert with oat crumble that really celebrates the flavors of the season. Summer Fruit Crisp is easy to make, super flexible, and the crisp topping can be made in advance and kept frozen until ready to use.
Blueberry Flag Shortcake by Fitty Foodlicious
Blueberry Strawberry Flag Shortcake is an all Americana recipe that can be made again and again throughout the year. My classic Collagen Fruity Flag Shortcake is an ode to the amazing country we live in and an ode to shortcake fans all around! It’s truly a magical dessert recipe that you will want to make for all of your family and friends!
4th of July Cupcakes by Swirls of Flavor
Our 4th of July Cupcakes are an easy from scratch recipe for vanilla cupcakes. Topped with a homemade buttercream frosting, decorated with red white and blue stripes and topped with a cherry, they are a perfect fourth of July dessert!
Chewy M&M Cookies by Grumpy’s Honeybunch
Chewy M&M Cookies made the patriotic way! These cookies are nice and chewy, not crispy and crunchy. Just the way Grumpy and I both love them! They are also easy to make and a delicious way to please everyone on your July 4th celebration!
Patriotic Jello Poke Cake by Restless Chipotle
So Pretty! Patriotic, red-white-blue Jello Poke Cake is quick and easy to make with fun red and blue gelatin streaks and whipped white chocolate topping. Great for beginning cooks
Red, White and Blueberry Mug Cake by The Monday Box
This July 4th, celebrate Independence Day with a patriotic dessert that is cooked and ready to enjoy in just one minute! Eaten as a mug cake or turned out onto a plate, Red, White, and Blueberry Mug Cake is an individual serving of patriotic funfetti cake bursting with sweet cherry and blueberry pie filling. Americana in a mug!
Jello Mold With Cream Cheese by Amira’s Pantry
A festive jello mold recipe, one of the best jello recipes with cream cheese you can make. A luscious cream cheese sweet gelatin layer hugged by a strawberry jello and topped with fruits. A delicious no-bake easy dessert that has the wow factor you need.
I hope you found some delicious All-American desserts to try. We made sure all these recipes are simple to make because who has time to be in the kitchen all day when you have fireworks to watch.
Have a glorious day with your friends and family.
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From learning to cook on a farm in Indiana to culinary school in California, my passion for food is never-ending. Turning on my oven to bake something for friends and family is my happy place, and I am glad to be here at One Hot Oven sharing both sweet and savory recipes with all my baking friends.
Jen Sim
This is the perfect 4th of July round-up! There are so many great ideas. I want to eat all of them.
Jenny
Lovely collection. Excellent ideas for the 4th of July. We have people over, so I will definitely make at least a couple of these desserts. Thanks so much!
Kushigalu
Wow. So many amazing desserts to try for 4th of July. Thanks for sharing.
Jacqueline Debono
One day I’d love to be in US for 4th July! I love all these red, white and blue dessert and cookie ideas! Such fun! Even though we don’t have this holiday in Europe (obviously), I’d love to try some of these. That shortcake looks so good and your sprinkle cookies are cute!
Tristin
So many great options for the 4th of July, I especially have my eye on those adorable thumbprint cookies!
AISilva
What a great list of desserts that are perfect for 4th of July recipes. Love all the patriotic colors! Thanks for the roundup!
Hayley Dhanecha
My gosh, how amazing and tempting all the recipes are! So hard to choose one, lol I want to eat all of them. Thanks!! Happy 4th July
Kay
Love all these 4th of July desserts, it is my son’s birthday so we always like to celebrate with American themed food!
Oscar
Omgosh, so many good recipes in this post. I’m going to make the trifle for sure, it looks amazing. I’m excited.
Audrey
These look awesome!! There’s a dessert for everyone on this list.
Tyanne
Wow these all look so beautiful! I know what I am making for 4th of July desserts now!
Kayla DiMaggio
All of these look so delicious but I especially love the thumbprint cookies! I will have to try this year for sure! I love themed desserts.
Natalie
Lovely collection of recipes. Everythings looks beyond delicious. And so festive. I saved a few recipes. Can’t wait to give them a try!
Jeri
What a fabulous collection of recipes! They all look so delicious! The colors are so bright, vibrant, and beautiful!
Anaiah
These are all such great options! They look delicious and so fun to make. I’m going to be trying your thumbprint cookies recipe and maybe even the blueberry flag shortcake!
Freya
Thank you for taking the time to share all of these amazing recipe ideas! Now to choose which one to make!
Bernice
So many great ideas here, love all the bright bold colours.
Petro
What a great list of blue red and white recipes! And they seem very easy to make!
Marta
Such a great variety of recipes to celebrate the Nation. Thank you for sharing!
Natalie
Great collection of recipes!! They are all so colourful – I can’t decide which to make first! Love that most of them could be easily adapted for Canada Day (because that is where I live!!).