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Patriotic Fruit Pizza and Other 4th of July Recipes

Have you ever tried Fruit Pizza? We love it! This year I decided to make it for our Family Home Evening last night to go along with our Patriotic Lesson. It was a hit. And the best part is that it is super easy to make.

Simply take your favorite sugar cookie recipe, I used this recipe here, and then roll out your cookie dough into a nice circle. Place the dough onto a round pizza baking sheet and bake in the oven at your recipes temperature for about 12-15 min. Remove from the oven and let cool.

Frost the cookie with your favorite cream cheese frosting or Cool Whip and then top with the fruit of your choice. (I used a cookie cutter to get a nice star shape and then used that to make the blueberry star).

I love this dessert, but especially in the summer as it is light and refreshing. We have also made these before on individual round cookies. Then had a sort of fruit pizza cookie bar. We had various cut, fresh fruit and let each person create their own by picking and choosing the fruit combination on their individual cookie. Such a fun idea for showers too!

YUM!

Need some more fun ideas for your 4th of July festivities? Check out these fun ideas!

Recipe Girl shares how to make these Patriotic Cheesecake Bars! Don’t they look amazing? I will be making these for sure as my husband is a HUGE cheesecake fan.

She also shares a recipe for a red, white and blue potato salad! A definite must too!

17 and Baking shares a fun red, white and blue cake that is similar to the rainbow cake shown here earlier.

The Barefoot Contessa shares with The Food Network a flag sheet cake to bring some patriotic fun to your BBQ or picnic. Love this!

SugarMama Baking Company has some fun red, white and blue recipes too. I would love to make and taste this red, white and blue trifle…YUM!

Aren’t these strawberries from Rachel Ray so pretty? Love me some chocolate covered strawberries!

And finally…I love this Stained Glass Patriotic Jell-O from the Brown Eyed Baker. My kids would definitely love this.

June 29, 2010 · Filed under: Fourth of July, Recipes, Summer Tagged with

Festive Fourth of July Treats

Are you still looking for some fun red, white and blue recipes to help you celebrate Independece Day? Here are some fun ideas we will be bringing to our family celebration this year.

The first dessert is so simple, but absolutely delicious. And depending on the amount of cool whip or real whipping cream you use, fairly healthy. We had this for dessert earlier this week. Yum!

Then I saw these fun sugar cookies and immediately commisioned my kids to help me make some. Here is the tutorial video from Family Fun we watched to learn how to make them. (This link takes you to the videos but you need to click on the picture of the sugar cookies below the video to get the instructions for the cookies. For some reason I can’t get it to play the cookie video instead of the popsicle video). They are so easy and quite tasty!

We also saw the idea on Family Fun for making these fun popsicles.

Here is the link for the how-to-video. They were also very easy to make. Just make sure you give yourself some time to freeze each layer in between so that you have distinct color separations.

My kids thought these were so yummy. My husband even had two in one sitting. They are going to be perfect after our delicious 4th of July BBQ on a hot summer day.