Fourth of July

By chellelee28 on Nov 24, 2008 | Reply

You can go to a arts and crafts store (like Michael’s) and buy a flag cake pan. Then you make a regular cake and decorate it like a flag. Good luck!

By kk on Nov 27, 2008 | Reply

Pistachio Pie

Pre made Graham cracker pie crust
2 boxes pistachio instant pudding
1 hour refrigeration time
whip cream

SO easy and SO yummy!

By lovely on Nov 29, 2008 | Reply

Patriotic Gelatin Salad

2 (3 ounce) packages berry blue gelatin
2 (3 ounce) packages strawberry flavored gelatin
4 cups boiling water, divided
2 1/2 cups cold water, divided
2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
2 cups sour cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

In four separate bowls, dissolve each package of gelatin in 1 cup boiling water. Add 1/2 cup cold water to each and stir. Pour one bowl of blue gelatin into an oiled 10-in. fluted tub pan; chill until almost set, about 30 minutes.
Set other three bowls of gelatin aside at room temperature. Soften unflavored gelatin in remaining cold water; let stand 5 minutes.
Heat milk in a saucepan over medium heat just below boiling. Stir in softened gelatin and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream and vanilla until smooth. When blue gelatin in pan in almost set, carefully spoon 1-1/2 cups sour cream mixture over it. Chill until almost set, about 30 minutes.
Carefully spoon one bowl of strawberry gelatin over cream layer. Chill until almost set. Carefully spoon 1-1/2 cups cream mixture over the strawberry layer. Chill until almost set. Repeat, adding layers of blue gelatin, cream mixture and strawberry gelatin, chilling in between each. Chill several hours or overnight.

By tompink on Dec 3, 2008 | Reply

Toss a whole bunch of fresh blueberries and strawberries in a big bowl of whipped cream. You don’t need to bake, July 4th is HOT usually.

By ? Diana on Dec 5, 2008 | Reply

Oreo Pie

1 tub of fat free whipped cream
1& 1/2 cups cold skim milk
2 boxes of JELLO sugar free Cheesecake pudding mix
1 Oreo pie crust found in Kroger sugar aisle
Reduced Fat Oreos

Take half the tub of whipped cream, mix that with the milk and pudding mixes. Mix till creamy. Pour into the crust. Chill for 2 hrs in fridge. Use the rest of the whipped cream to top off the pie. Twist off oreo tops and put 8 of them on top…one per piece when cutting it.

By Sales Manager on Dec 6, 2008 | Reply

Cookies are always pretty easy, yet easily impress especially if they like nuts of any kind.

Also, Chocolate cream pie is pretty easy too, as long as you get a pre-made crust. I would say apple pie since it is the fourth, but it is a little more difficult.

There are great recipes on-line.

Good Luck

By Minimee on Dec 9, 2008 | Reply

How about leaving the baking aside and making a fruit trifle, always a winner with my in-laws, one of those birds eye boxes but DO NOT use the jelly crystals (they are crap!!) buy a seperate box of the hartleys jelly cubes and only use 3/4 of hot water. Add a tin on del montes fruit cocktail to the jelly before you put it in the fridge to cool. You can even decorate the top with a cruched flake/smarties etc! Have fun!

By cuty007 on Dec 11, 2008 | Reply

there are recipes for no bake cheesecake. They are great and light, and they won’t know it’ not baked.

By oakleaf1122 on Dec 17, 2008 | Reply

7-Layer Jello Cake:

1 (3 ounce) package black cherry Jell-O
1 (3 ounce) package cherry Jell-O
1 (3 ounce) package lime Jell-O gelatin
1 (3 ounce) package lemon Jell-O gelatin
1 (3 ounce) package orange Jell-O
1 (3 ounce) package raspberry Jell-O gelatin
1 (3 ounce) package strawberry Jell-O gelatin dessert
4 1/2 cups boiling water (divided)
4 1/2 cups cold water (divided)
1 1/2 cups evaporated milk (divided)
8 ounces Cool Whip

* < 4 hours Gelatin
* Dinner Party Gelatin

1. 1st Layer.
2. Boil 3/4 cup hot water. Add black cherry jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add 3/4 cup cold water. Stir. Pour into dish and chill for 40 minutes.
3. 2nd Layer.
4. Boil 1/2 cup hot water. Add Cherry jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add 1/2 cup cold water and 1/2 cup evaporated milk. Stir and gently pour over top of 1st layer. Chill for 30 minutes.
5. 3rd Layer.
6. Boil 3/4 cup hot water. Add lime jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add 3/4 cup cold water. Stir and gently pour over 2nd layer. Chill for 30 minutes.
7. 4th Layer.
8. Boil 1/2 cup hot water. Add lemon jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add 1/2 cup cold water and 1/2 cup evaporated milk. Stir and gently pour over 3rd layer. Chill for 30 minutes.
9. 5th Layer.
10. Boil 3/4 cup hot water. Add orange jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add 3/4 cup cold water. Stir and gently pour over 4th layer. Chill for 30 minutes.
11. 6th Layer.
12. Boil 1/2 cup hot water. Add raspberry jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add 1/2 cup cold water and 1/2 cup evaporated milk. Stir and gently pour over 5th layer. Chill 30 minutes.
13. 7th Layer
14. Boil 3/4 cup hot water. Add strawberry jello and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and add 3/4 cup cold water. Stir and gently pour over 6th layer. Chill.
15. Then spread with cool whip.

You don’t have to use the flavors that I listed. You can be festive and used red and blue jello.

By chickadee_ajm on Dec 18, 2008 | Reply

On they have this great looking red, white, & blue brownie dessert…so easy too.
You buy the refrigerated brownie mix and just spread it in a pan and top with a cream cheese mixture and top with strawberries & blueberries…yum!!! Check it out!

By Larry B on Dec 20, 2008 | Reply

The easiest desert I’ve ever seen to make is the Texas Brag Cake (commonly known as a Dump Cake). You can get the recipe here:

By Common_Sense2 on Dec 23, 2008 | Reply

fresh strawberry pie.

By sillyswede99 on Dec 24, 2008 | Reply

I agree with the trifle idea, but a really easy way to do it. Buy a pound cake from the store. Some fresh fruit and whipped cream. That is all it takes!!! Cut cake into cubes, put in bottom of large glass bowl, then add whipped cream, if you want, you can flavor the whipped cream with some strawberry juice, some vanilla whatever you like. Mascerate the fruit with just a little sugar, this will produce some liquid, Add the fruit after the whipped topping. Keep on layering till you have a couple layers of each ingredient. Trifle are easy, they can be made with pre-purchased cakes or brownies. You can use any kind of fruit. Peaches, nectarines, berries. Again, just add a little sugar to the fruit to make a liquid. Then the ever popular cool whip. You can of course make fresh whipped cream. And again here you can vary the flavor of that cream. Be creative, but if you want to stick to red, white and blue, use strawberries and blueberries for the fruit.

have fun and good luck.

By Kristin on Dec 27, 2008 | Reply

Ice box cakes are always good, and they don’t require any baking.. just some graham crackers, pudding, fruit and a little bit of assembly.

.. or perhaps a parfait of some kind?

By Candi is Dandy on Dec 28, 2008 | Reply

Why not bring a bucket of ice cream and cones. It’ll be hot,and everyone loves icecream. Or get big store made cookies and make cream sandwiches…… or this
Not Yo’ Mama’s Banana Puddin - Paula Deen
2 bags Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies
6 to 8 bananas, sliced
2 cups milk
1 (5-ounce) box instant French vanilla pudding
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 (12-ounce) container frozen whipped topping thawed, or equal amount sweetened whipped cream

Line the bottom of a 13 by 9 by 2-inch dish with 1 bag of cookies and layer bananas on top.
In a bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix and blend well using a handheld electric mixer. Using another bowl, combine the cream cheese and condensed milk together and mix until smooth. Fold the whipped topping into the cream cheese mixture. Add the cream cheese mixture to the pudding mixture and stir until well blended. Pour the mixture over the cookies and bananas and cover with the remaining cookies. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

Instead of the Chessman cookies you could use the standard Nilla Wafers.

By Tutiwati Kayadi on Dec 31, 2008 | Reply

This one is easy to make, should try it!

All American Dessert

1 lg Berry blue jello
1 lg Red jello, any flavor
4 c Water; boiling
2 c Water; cold
8 oz Cool Whip; thawed
4 c Angel food cake, cubed
2 c Strawberries; sliced
1/2 c Blueberries

Dissolve berry blue jello in 2 cups of boiling water. In a separate bowl, dissolve the cherry jello.

Stir 1 cup of cold water into each bowl. Pour into separate 9×13″ pans.

Refrigerate at least 3 hours until firm. Cut into 1/2″ cubes.

Place blue jello cubes in bottom of clear glass trifle bowl. Top with 1/3 of the Cool Whip. Add cake cubes, then sliced strawberries. Top with another 1/3 Cool Whip. Add the red jello cubes and then the remaining Cool Whip.

Sprinkle blueberries over top.

Hope you can impress your in-laws.

Happy Independence Day!

By Jane P on Dec 31, 2008 | Reply

ohhh i got one!! lol one christmas, i made rice krispy treats, but i added in green and red sprinkles before i baked them and they looked neat and they were a hit at the neighborhood christmas party.. and i’m only 13 and they are really easy to make - there are directions on the side of a rick krispies box if u need them.. but i would suggest putting little red and blue stars or regular sprinkles.. or if u want u can put food color in with them in 2 seperate bowls and make some red and some blue! hope this helps.. good luck!

By jaz on Jan 4, 2009 | Reply

This one is super easy and super good — especially for a hot day.

Angel Lush

Prep Time: 15 min
Total Time: 1 hr 15 min
Makes: 10 servings

1 can (20 oz.) crushed pineapple in juice, undrained
1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Vanilla Flavor Fat Free Sugar Free Instant Reduced Calorie Pudding & Pie Filling
1 cup thawed COOL WHIP LITE Whipped Topping
1 pkg. (10 oz.) round angel food cake
10 fresh strawberries

MIX pineapple with its juice and the dry pudding mix in medium bowl. Gently stir in whipped topping.
CUT cake horizontally into three layers. Place bottom cake layer, cut-side up, on serving plate; top with 1-1/3 cups of the pudding mixture. Cover with middle cake layer and an additional 1 cup of the remaining pudding mixture. Top with remaining cake layer; spread top of dessert with the remaining pudding mixture.
REFRIGERATE at least 1 hour. Top with strawberries just before serving. Store leftover dessert in refrigerator.

When I made it I used regular pudding and regular Cool-Whip instead of the low fat/low sugar versions — and I used both Strawberries and Blueberries for garnish.

By deeshair on Jan 5, 2009 | Reply

you have some good ideas to choose from, but here is a festive idea.

Red, White and Blue Ambrosia
INGREDIENTS
1 pint heavy cream
1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
2 cups sour cream
1 1/2 cups flaked coconut
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1 pint strawberries, hulled and sliced
1 pint fresh blueberries
3 cups miniature marshmallows
DIRECTIONS
Combine the heavy cream and confectioners’ sugar in a large bowl. Whip with an electric mixer until thick but not grainy. Mix in sour cream.
Use a rubber spatula to fold in the flaked coconut, pineapple, strawberries, blueberries and marshmallows until everything is evenly distributed. Cover and chill for at least 4 hours before serving. It tastes best if chilled overnight.

By nevada_gurl on Jan 7, 2009 | Reply

like a person said earlier you can go to micheals and buy the flag cake pan and just use any kind of cake mix and instead of doing the entire thing in icing.Use a vanilla icing and cover the base of it kinda like glue and use blue berries and rasberries as the strips on the flag and blue berries for the blue chunk and use the little star candies as the stars always a big hit because its a mixture of sweet and fruity.If you dont want to use rasberries you can use red cherries.

By Nana on Jan 8, 2009 | Reply

You can get lots recipe ideas from this site:

By Brianna h on Jan 11, 2009 | Reply

I would jst go to publix buy a pan buy 2 rolls of cookie dough and then cook it like the packedge says and then DECORATE with a 4th of July look.And if you really wan’t to impress make them a good cookie cake its all so easy just pick up 2 cookie dough rolls and decorations then mix the two rolls to gather then flaten it on to a big pan and bake it as the package say’s then decorate it .
YOU SHOULD REALLY TRY IT.

By funkymonkey910 on Jan 14, 2009 | Reply

I know that it’s a day late to suggest a recipe but i guess if you like this recipe you can do it next year:

Flag Cake:

18 tablespoons (2 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
3 cups sugar
6 extra-large eggs at room temperature
1 cup sour cream at room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
3 cups flour
1/3 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
For the icing:
1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
1 1/2 pounds cream cheese at room temperature
1 pound confectioners’ sugar, sifted
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
To assemble:
2 half-pints blueberries
3 half-pints raspberries

Heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter and flour an 18 by 13 by 1 1/2-inch sheet pan.

Cream the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on high speed, until light and fluffy. On medium speed, add the eggs, 2 at a time, then add the sour cream and vanilla. Scrape down the sides and stir until smooth.

Sift together the flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda in a bowl. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture until just combined. Pour into the prepared pan. Smooth the top with a spatula. Bake in the center of the oven for 20 to 30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool to room temperature.

For the icing, combine the butter, cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mixing just until smooth.

Spread three-fourths of the icing on the top of the cooled sheet cake. Outline the flag on the top of the cake with a toothpick. Fill the upper left corner with blueberries. Place 2 rows of raspberries across the top of the cake like a red stripe. Put the remaining icing in a pastry bag fitted with a star tip and pipe two rows of white stripes below the raspberries. Alternate rows of raspberries and icing until the flag is completed. Pipe stars on top of the blueberries.

I serve this cake right in the pan. If you want to turn it out onto a board before frosting, use parchment paper when you grease and flour the pan.

… or to make it easier, you can use a boxed cake mix instead of making it out of scratch :]