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Explode Your July 4th Holiday With These Festive Firecracker Desserts

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Red, White and Blue Desserts That Will POP On Your 4th of July Dessert Table

Looking for something to serve for dessert at your July 4th holiday party? What about BYOD – Bring Your Own Dessert – to the neighborhood picnic or your best friend’s BBQ. These options are sure to be a hit, and you’ll be the talk of the party. Nothing is better than anything or everything in red, white, and blue to celebrate this particular holiday in style!

Patriotic Rice Krispie Treats

These rice krispie treats are really great desserts because they are individual treats!  You can make them really fast, they’re easy to make, easy to cart-and-carry, easy to serve, and FUN to eat! The little candles with red polka-dotted ribbon around them make a nice added touch. To view the recipe, you can find it here.

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This great quick recipe was shared by Krystle of Baking Beauty, a 23-year old out of Pennsylvania, who has carried on the tradition of the women who came before her who once kept written journals of all the important family events in their lives, only now it’s digital! As DIYer’s, what we like about Krystle is that she believes “the best tools you have are your two hands and a little elbow grease!” Don’t we agree?

Patriotic Whoopie Pies

Another recipe Krystle has shared with us is her Patriotic Whoopie Pies. Looks delicious!

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Firecracker Bundt Cake

This is a great cake to make to celebrate the 4th! It’s not only easy, but fun, and who doesn’t like a bundt cake? It’s really very festive, too! We’ve provided quick instructions below.

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The great thing about this cake is the main ingredients are cake mix, frosting and some food coloring. It’s the secret tricks in the baking and frosting that make it so beautiful. Make cake batter as directed on box. Pour 1 cup of batter into a bowl and add the red food coloring, mix well. Pour another cup of the batter into a bowl and add the blue food coloring, mix well.

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Pour the red cake mix into the bottom of the greased pan.

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Carefully pour the white batter over the red batter in pan.  Then carefully pour the blue batter over the white batter.

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Bake as directed. Cool cake completely, about 30 minutes.

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Once cake is cool, equally divide the frosting into 3 bowls. Microwave the white frosting for a few seconds on high until it is smooth enough to drizzle over the cake. Then microwave one of the other bowls. Before drizzling, mix in a few drops of blue food coloring. Then drizzle over the cake, scattering back and forth.

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Arlene “Sugar” Cummings, wife and mother of two teenagers, “originally developed this recipe for Betty Crocker. Her passion for food comes from generations of Italian cooks and she started Cooking with Sugar so that she could share [her childhood] traditions with you.”

For full recipe instructions, click here.

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