15 Best 4th of July Desserts

These tasty Red, White & Blue Thumbprint Cookies are all dressed up with the prettiest patriotic colored sprinkles and icing for a festive celebration.

With just four basic kitchen ingredients and some patriotic food colors, you can celebrate our country’s birthday with our 4^th of July Sugar Cookies. Easy to make, our colorful cookies are fun for kids and especially delicious too! Perfect for a July picnic.

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. Everyone loves the fresh berries.

The best thing for dessert in the summer is ice cream. Well, actually ice cream is good anytime, but something about summer and the 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 the perfect sweet treat for a summer holiday.

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 festive dessert that doesn't take much effort this is a great recipe to have in your collection!

Thanks to those who defend and protect our country, we have the freedom to celebrate our country on July 4^th. 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!

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!

Made with angel food cake and fresh blueberries and a delicious cherry lime sauce. Don't forget the whipped cream on top.

You can even make one berry trifle for a simple dessert just for you!

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.

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 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!

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!

Celebrate with these soft and chewy red, white, and blue 4th of July Sugar Cookies for a colorful patriotic dessert. Make an easy cookie dough and bake, then add a sweet creamy frosting to these bars. Top with the prettiest patriotic sprinkles. Bake for a festive treat or a July bbq.

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. You can even start with a white cake mix. 

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!

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 strawberry jello and topped with fruits. A delicious no-bake easy dessert that has the wow factor you need.

Patriotic sprinkles are the best part of July recipes and these sprinkles are like the perfect ending to a sweet treat.

Don't forget the food coloring so you can get that perfect shade of patriotic red or blue.