10 Flag-Shaped Foods to Make for the Fourth of July

Everyone will be pledging allegiance to these festive flag foods.

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Updated on June 20, 2023

Flag Ices

Give Italian ice the all-American treatment by arranging homemade raspberry and lemon ices with blue cocktail napkins on a baking sheet to form a flag food display. This frozen dessert is a cinch to whip up, but you can use store-bought sorbet cups in a pinch.

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American Flag Tart

This festive berry-spangled flag tart is actually two desserts: Each shell is lined with chocolate, a rich crème fraîche filling, and then filled with row after row of blueberries and raspberries. A dusting of confectioners' sugar delivers those white rows.

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Flag Sheet Cake

flag cake patriotic independence day fourth of july — Minh + Wass

This flag sheet cake recipe is the perfect excuse to show off your piping skills. Use—you guessed it—a star tip to decorate this moist sour cream cake with cream cheese frosting, and top with plenty of ripe berries.

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Flag Cupcakes

Cupcake with Flag Topping — Gentl & Hyers

You can use any flavor you like for the base of these patriotic Flag Cupcakes—we went with yellow buttermilk. Spread each one with airy Swiss meringue buttercream, then finish with red licorice "stripes" and blue frosting "stars."

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Independence Icebox Cake

Three types of berries do the heavy lifting in this easy no-bake Flag Icebox Cake. Strawberries go into the whipped cream filling, and blueberries and raspberries are used to create the flag design on top.

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Pull-Apart Vanilla-Wafer Cupcake Cake With Berries

Get creative with these pull-apart cupcakes. Simply whip up a batch of cupcakes, then set them side by side to create a rectangle shape. Apply white frosting on top, then arrange fresh strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries to create a flag-inspired look.

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Flag Layer Cake

Though it's not necessarily shaped like a flag, this layer cake shows off its colors. It's frosted with vanilla buttercream, so the red, white, and blue fillings are a sliced surprise. What also makes this Americana-themed cake extra special is the infusion of fresh summer fruit. Instead of layers of frosting, this flag food features layers of fresh strawberries and blueberries in a sugary jam.

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Flag Pizza

Clever toppings transform a rectangular pizza into an all-American pie: add blue potatoes and fresh mozzarella pearls for the stars, and cherry tomatoes and shredded mozzarella for the stripes.

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Flag Cheesecake

It doesn't get more crowd-pleasing than cheesecake. This flag-shaped one is cut into easy-to-eat squares and decorated with strategically placed summer berries.

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Flag Cookies

A classic sugar cookie is a guaranteed hit, but infuse a little patriotic pizzazz and you'll make for an even more memorable dessert. Simply cut these Flag Sugar Cookies into rectangles, then decorate with red, white, and blue royal icing. Plastic squeeze bottles will help create flawless flag stripes.

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