The 4th of July is the perfect time to gather your friends and family and have some fun! Celebrate in style with these delicious, and EASY, recipes. From 15 minute cakes, to delicious cocktails, to a healthy side: all take little to no time to prepare and will make you the most popular person at the cookout.
Fifteen Minute No- Bake
Patriotic Angel Food Cake
Ingredients:
1 of your favorite store bought Angel Food cakes
1 16 oz. Jar marshmallow fluff
2 8 oz. tubs cool whip
2-3 Tbsp Almond extract
Triple Berry Jam (optional but encouraged)
Fresh berries
Handful of fresh mint (optional)
Toothpicks
2 large ziploc bags or piping bags
Instructions:
Make 2 layers of toothpicks around your angel food cake. This helps your layers to be cut evenly.
Following your toothpicks, cut the cake into three layers.
Meanwhile, whip together cool whip, almond extract, and marshmallow fluff.
Place fluff mixture into ziploc/ piping bags and pipe evenly on the bottom layer.
Totally optional, but we added a thin layer on top of the marshmallow fluff mix of berry jam. We think, no pun intended, this takes the cake.
Add a layer of fresh berries on top of fluff layer.
Repeat for all layers including top of cake.
Garnish with fresh mint leaves (optional)
Patriotic Caprese Salad
Ingredients:
2 C. Sliced cherry tomatoes
1 Pint Blueberries
Fresh mozzarella cheese (enough for about 20 mini stars)
Balsamic Vinaigrette
Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper
Mini star cookie cutter
Instructions:
Add cherry tomatoes and blueberries to a bowl
Using a small star shaped cookie cutter, cut 20 or so stars out of mozzarella. Cut up the excess to go in the salad
Drizzle with balsamic vinaigrette
Add dash of olive oil and salt and pepper to taste
Garnish with fresh basil
Star Spangled
Strawberry Pina Colada
Ingredients:
6 oz. Frozen strawberries
2 Tbsp. White Rum
1/2 C. Coconut Cream
1/2 C. Blue Curacao
1/2 C. Crushed Pineapple
1/4 C. White Rum
Whip Cream
Instructions:
Blend strawberries and 2 Tbsp. white rum, set aside
Clean blender and blend remaining ingredients (besides whip cream)
In a glass, add a layer of red, strawberry mix.
Top with blue, coconut mix. Repeat until glass is full
Add a swirl of whip cream on top
This recipe can be made without alcohol so the whole family can enjoy!
Red, White, and Blue
Dump Cake
Ingredients:
21 oz can cherry pie filling
21 oz can blueberry pie filling
1 box white or yellow cake mix
3/4 Cup butter- sliced
Sweetened shredded coconut
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 and grease 9x13 pan with nonstick cooking spray
2. Alternatively spoon the pie fillings into the pan. Make about 2” wide “stripes” with each kind until pan is full
3. Evenly spread cake mix over top of pie fillings (don’t mix)
4. Evenly place the sliced butter on top of the cake mixture. It’s super important to evenly space them because this is what cooked the cake mix on top
5. Add desired amount of shredded sweetened coconut on top. This is totally optional but SO good! Even people who aren’t huge fans of coconut say this makes the whole cake
6. Bake for 50-60 min.
Serve warm with ice cream! Enjoy!
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