50 Red, White and Blue Recipes to Make All Summer Long

Prepping for a patriotic celebration? These all-American treats have you covered.

April 19, 2023

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Fill Your Table with Red, White and Blue

Whether you’re planning a patriotic Memorial Day get-together, hosting a 4th of July cookout or gathering all your friends for an end-of-summer Labor Day celebration, you’re going to need a few festive recipes on the menu. We’ve got lots of great options to choose from but these easy-to-make cereal treats are a must. The different layers are easily achieved with a few drops of food coloring, then the whole pan is topped with a dusting of red, white and blue sprinkles. They’re colorful, delicious and easy to make ahead of time. Plus, who doesn’t love a good, old-fashioned marshmallow cereal treat?

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Fireworks Bundt Cake

This showstopping cake is sure to be the center of attention at your patriotic summer party. Just be sure to butter and flour your cake pan well, making sure there’s butter in all the pan’s crevices, so that the cake is easy to remove after baking.

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Ina's Flag Cake

Make Ina's easy vanilla sheet cake ahead of time, and decorate it with berries and frosting just before serving.

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Fireworks Red, White and Blue Daiquiris

Use frozen strawberries for the red base, blue curacao liqueur for the middle layer and coconut sorbet with rum for the white topping in this patriotic cocktail.

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Patriotic Berry Trifle

Use store-bought angel food cake to cut down on the prep time for Sunny Anderson's colorful trifle.

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Red, White and Blue Cheesecake

The marbled effect in this Americana-inspired dessert is easier to achieve than it looks — all it takes is alternating scoops of colored cheesecake batter, and then a simple wooden skewer does the rest.

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Red, White and Blue Cherry Pies

Keep your dessert all to yourself with these individual freeform pies that are full of cherry pie filling and topped with a fresh blueberry sauce.

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Red, White and Blue Fruit Cups

Rachael Ray's 10-minute dessert is chock-full of fresh fruit: strawberries, blueberries and blackberries.

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Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream Sandwiches

Trisha’s cookie and ice cream sandwiches not only sparkle with their red, white, and blue sprinkles but you'll find that each one has a sweet surprise: a touch of raspberry preserves.

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American Flag Ice Cream Cake

This red, white and blue ice cream cake is sure to become a summer classic. It's easier than it looks, thanks to a press-in-the-pan crust made from shortbread cookie crumbs.

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Star Confetti Cookies

These simple sugar cookies hold their shape when baked, so your cut-outs will have nice, clean edges. Mixed with red, white and blue confetti stars, they're a festive treat for a patriotic celebration.

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Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Salad

Ina Garten's five-minute appetizer is a beautiful display to have on your picnic table. Vary the color of your tomatoes to get the most-appealing presentation.

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Raspberry-Watermelon Terrine with Blueberry Sauce

Prepare this picture-perfect terrine by layering watermelon- and raspberry-infused gelatin, then top each serving with some homemade blueberry sauce.

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Star-Studded Berry Tarts

These individual fruit-topped tarts make it easy to eat dessert with one hand and hold your drink with the other.

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Red and White Double Dippers with Blue Corn Chips

Serve an easy red, white and blue appetizer of red pepper salsa, creamy garlic dip and blue corn chips.

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Red, White and Blue Smoothie

This triple-layer fruit smoothie will hold its shape best if you freeze the pureed fruit juice for a few minutes before adding the next layer.

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Vanilla Semifreddo with Raspberry Sauce

Ina’s elegant dessert is made for summer dining. If the semifreddo gets too warm in the heat, cover and refreeze on the serving plate.

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Red, White and Blue Potato Salad

Create this colorful potato salad by using a mix of skinned baby red potatoes, Yukon golds and purple potatoes.

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Healthy Red, White and Blue Frozen Pops

These healthy frozen pops are salute-worthy since they're packed with vitamin C and have even a little fiber (2 grams per pop) thanks to the fresh berries. And the best part is that you can get your red, white and blue fix without using artificial food coloring.

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Red, White and Blue Cake Roll

Guests will love slicing through the indulgent outer layer of marshmallow cream to reveal the vibrant red and blue cake hidden beneath.

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Blueberry French Toast Casserole with Whipped Cream and Strawberries

This make-ahead breakfast uses the best of what's in season right now: blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. Let the bread-and-egg mixture sit overnight to fully incorporate, then bake in the morning and top with fruit and whipped cream.

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Crispy-Treat Cheesecake Bars

You don't need a holiday for an excuse to make these sweet and crispy cheesecake bars. The cheesecake layer is the perfect yin to the yang of the crackly rice cereal. Make the bars a day ahead, then cut and top with berries before serving.

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Red Velvet-Blueberry Ice Cream Pie

Crumble store-bought red velvet cupcakes to create the crust for this no-bake ice cream pie. Top the finished dessert with fresh whipped cream and a sprinkling of red velvet crumbs.

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Red, White and Blueberry Coleslaw

Crispy bacon, dried blueberries and thinly sliced cabbage turn basic coleslaw into a colorful and patriotic side dish.

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Firework Slice-and-Bake Cookie

Turn store-bought sugar cookie dough into slice-and-bake red, white and blue swirled firework cookies — perfect for summer cookouts (and much safer than real fireworks!).

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Red, White and Blue Fruit Salad

Great for a summer picnic or packed in a lunch, this colorful fruit salad has a tropical touch, thanks to the ginger, lime and toasted coconut.

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Red Velvet Fireworks Cake

Why save this six-layer red velvet cake for a national holiday when it's sure to drop jaws at any occasion? Finish it off with a round of red, white and blue sprinkles for good measure.

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Red-White-and-Blue Cocktails

Turn summer drinks into fun and delicious firecrackers by coating the glass rims with Pop Rocks. Just dampen with lemon juice, then dip the rims in the candies on a plate.

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Flag Cake

Decorate a sprinkle-filled cake with white chocolate frosting, strawberry stripes and blueberry stars.

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Red, White and Blueberry Trifle

Layer store-bought pound cake with homemade blueberry sauce, cream cheese topping and strawberries.

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Red, White and Blue Ice Cream Sandwiches

Transform the classic ice cream sandwich into a patriotic treat! All it takes are red, white, and blue candy melts. You’ll have these cute, all-American desserts within minutes!

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Mixed Berry Pavlova

This crisp-on-the-outside, gooey-on-the-inside cloud of meringue is topped with sweetened whipped cream and fresh berries. This showstopping recipe is sure to become a family favorite.

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Blueberry Buttermilk Bundt Cake

Serve up this blueberry-studded Bundt cake with a side of macerated strawberries.

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Stars and Stripes Cupcakes

Add a patriotic touch to your dessert spread by topping these fluffy vanilla cupcakes with a swirl of vanilla and raspberry frosting. For the blue star topper, microwave candy melts, then pipe the star shapes onto parchment paper and refrigerate until they've set.

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Red, White and Blue Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Just when you thought red velvet cake couldn’t get any better! Instead spreading frosting between the layers of cake, Jeff fills that space with ice cream sandwiches, making the perfect, patriotic, summertime treat.

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Fruit Tart Flag

Here's a new take on the classic flag cake: miniature tart shells filled with mascarpone cream, then decorated with blueberries and strawberries.

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Red, White and Blue Meringues

These red, white and blue meringues are easy to make and use a clever decorating trick: Paint lines of food coloring gel up the sides of a pastry bag before filling it with meringue, and each cookie comes out striped as you pipe it. You can use this same trick with frosting for cupcakes.

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Ice Cream Flag Cake

Make sure you have an audience when you cut into this red-white-and-blue dessert: Each slice is a cake-and-ice-cream flag!

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Election Day Sugar Cookies

Democracy is already pretty sweet, but why not celebrate your civic duty (and educate your kids about voting) with a colorful cookie too? Red, white and blue confetti stars are folded into a sugar cookie dough that holds its shape, perfect for cutting out stars and the letters V-O-T-E.

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Red, White and Blue Mashed Potatoes

Gorgonzola and bacon breathe richness into these mashed red potatoes. Judging by its name, it's perhaps the most-patriotic heap of mashed potatoes you'll ever eat.

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Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Make your own homemade ice cream cake with Ree’s easy strategy. She layers ice cream sandwiches with strawberry ice cream before finishing everything off with red, white and blue sprinkles.

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Buffalo Puppies

Assemble these patriotic, bite-sized appetizers by drizzling blue cheese sauce onto cocktail hot dogs, then topping with red onions and blue chips.

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Ice Cream Sandwich Stars

They take a bit of time to make (because of the baking, cooling and freezing) but homemade ice cream sandwiches are a cinch to make from scratch. As long as you let your cookies cool completely before cutting them, you’ll get perfect results.

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Stars & Stripes Ice Cream Cones

Dress up your ice cream with these festive sugar cones. All you need is a handful of colorful candy melts and sprinkles!

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Stars-and-Stripes Cake

Nothing sings “Star-Spangled Banner” better than this festive cake. Best of all, this recipe uses (and reuses) just one mixing bowl, which makes for easy cleanup!

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Pavlova

Perfectly crisp on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside – this dessert is sure to satisfy any craving. Top with fresh berries for an easy red, white and blue dessert.

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Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting

Transform a traditional vanilla cake into a patriotic display sweet cream cheese frosting and a garnish of fresh strawberries and blueberries.

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United Tates of America

This tricolor potato salad is an easy way to pay tribute to our grand old flag: Just arrange the potatoes by color on a platter with red peppers.

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Red, White and Woohoo!

Make a new kind of flag cake for your patriotic summer celebration: This icebox cake is just a stack of cookies and cream!

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Patriotic Potato Salad

This colorful bowl is perfect for an all-American 4th of July picnic. The red tomatoes, white potatoes and blue spuds all say, 'America the beautiful'!

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50 Red, White and Blue Recipes to Make All Summer Long

Related To:

Fill Your Table with Red, White and Blue

Fireworks Bundt Cake

Ina's Flag Cake

Fireworks Red, White and Blue Daiquiris

Patriotic Berry Trifle

Red, White and Blue Cheesecake

Red, White and Blue Cherry Pies

Red, White and Blue Fruit Cups

Chocolate Raspberry Ice Cream Sandwiches

American Flag Ice Cream Cake

Star Confetti Cookies

Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Salad

Raspberry-Watermelon Terrine with Blueberry Sauce

Star-Studded Berry Tarts

Red and White Double Dippers with Blue Corn Chips

Red, White and Blue Smoothie

Vanilla Semifreddo with Raspberry Sauce

Red, White and Blue Potato Salad

Healthy Red, White and Blue Frozen Pops

Red, White and Blue Cake Roll

Blueberry French Toast Casserole with Whipped Cream and Strawberries

Crispy-Treat Cheesecake Bars

Red Velvet-Blueberry Ice Cream Pie

Red, White and Blueberry Coleslaw

Firework Slice-and-Bake Cookie

Red, White and Blue Fruit Salad

Red Velvet Fireworks Cake

Red-White-and-Blue Cocktails

Flag Cake

Red, White and Blueberry Trifle

Red, White and Blue Ice Cream Sandwiches

Mixed Berry Pavlova

Blueberry Buttermilk Bundt Cake

Stars and Stripes Cupcakes

Red, White and Blue Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Fruit Tart Flag

Red, White and Blue Meringues

Ice Cream Flag Cake

Election Day Sugar Cookies

Red, White and Blue Mashed Potatoes

Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Buffalo Puppies

Ice Cream Sandwich Stars

Stars & Stripes Ice Cream Cones

Stars-and-Stripes Cake

Pavlova

Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting

United Tates of America

Red, White and Woohoo!

Patriotic Potato Salad

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