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Whether you’re hoping to serve something patriotic or a cold dessert, this roundup has all the best 4th of July desserts!
Our Favorite Fourth of July Desserts
There isn’t a more American dessert than a slice of classic Apple Pie Recipe with a scoop of Vanilla Ice Cream. With that said, there are so many other delicious desserts you can serve on the 4th of July to celebrate American Independence.
Enjoy the fireworks and fun with a little something sweet! The red, white, and blue theme of the desserts adds a festive and patriotic element, and any of these recipes are sure to hit the spot.
Whether it’s a chilled dessert for a hot summer day or a classic American treat, there is a wide variety of options to suit different tastes and occasions. From classic Strawberry Shortcake to colorful Fruit Tarts, these July dessert recipes are sure to add to the joy of the celebration.
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1 4th of July Poke Cake Recipe
4th of July Poke Cake Recipe
Total Time: 4 hours 50 minutes
Cool, light, and refreshing 4th of July Poke Cake is great for summer holidays! It's sure to be a tasty hit.
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2 Dirt Cake Recipe
Dirt Cake Recipe
Total Time: 3 hours 10 minutes
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This deliciously addictive dirt cake recipe preps in minutes for a cool, creamy, family-favorite treat perfect for Oreo lovers!
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3 Cream Puff Cake Recipe
Cream Puff Cake Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
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Smooth + rich Cream Puff Cake is a take on the popular cream puff dessert. Drizzle it in chocolate for a perfect bite!
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4 Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake
Total Time: 20 minutes
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Strawberry shortcake is one of the easiest desserts you'll ever make!! Just 4 ingredients and 20 minutes for a light summer dessert.
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5 Fruit Pizza
Fruit Pizza
Total Time: 30 minutes
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Fruit pizza is an all-time favorite that starts with a sugar cookie crust and is completely customizable with your favorite fruit.
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6 Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Total Time: 4 hours 45 minutes
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Fresh and creamy homemade vanilla ice cream is a simple four-ingredient dessert that is incredibly delicious!
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7 Chocolate Lasagna
Chocolate Lasagna
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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Chocolate lovers will swoon over the creamy and crunchy textures of this layered no bake chocolate lasagna.
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8 Oreo Ice Cream Cake Recipe
Oreo Ice Cream Cake Recipe
Total Time: 5 hours 10 minutes
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Oreo Ice Cream Cake makes for the perfect no-bake dessert during warm summer months. Best of all, it only takes 5 simple ingredients!
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9 Banana Pudding Cake Recipe
Banana Pudding Cake Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes
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With only 10 minutes of prep, banana pudding cake has all the flavors of banana cream pie, just in cake form. It’s sure to be a hit!
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10 Triple Berry Pie
Triple Berry Pie
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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This easy-to-make fresh and fruity berry pie has a crumb topping for a delicious dessert that can be enjoyed all year round!
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11 4th of July Poke Cake Recipe
4th of July Poke Cake Recipe
Total Time: 4 hours 50 minutes
Cool, light, and refreshing 4th of July Poke Cake is great for summer holidays! It's sure to be a tasty hit.
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12 Red White and Blue Cake
Red White and Blue Cake
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Make a spectacular red white and blue cake that's beautifully festive, delicious, and incredibly easy to put together!
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13 American Flag Cake
American Flag Cake
Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
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Festive fruit-topped American Flag cake is a simple, light, and refreshing way to celebrate any patriotic holiday!
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14 4th of July Rice Krispies Treats
4th of July Rice Krispies Treats
Total Time: 10 minutes
Delicious, simple and quick 4th of July Rice Krispie Treats are always a hit, and are festive for any patriotic occasion.
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15 4th of July Cookies
4th of July Cookies
Total Time: 17 minutes
Chewy 4th of July cookies are studded with M&Ms to add a simple festive flair to your holiday celebrations!
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16 Dessert Parfait Recipe
Dessert Parfait Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
A Dessert Parfait is a creamy combination of a delicious fluffy pudding and fresh fruit. They are simply heavenly!
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17 Dessert Kabobs Recipe
Dessert Kabobs Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes
Dessert Kabobs are a simple and delicious way to serve several "mini" treats at once. They are perfect for parties, BBQs and every day!
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18 Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs
Strawberry Shortcake Kabobs
Total Time: 40 minutes
Strawberry shortcake kabobs are a simple version of a classic. A cake mix and quick vanilla candy coating make this an extra easy treat!
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19 Patriotic Trail Mix Recipe
Patriotic Trail Mix Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes
Sweet and crunchy Patriotic Trail Mix is filled with candy coated cereal mixed with mini marshmallows, licorice and M&Ms.
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20 Strawberry Icebox Cake Recipe
Strawberry Icebox Cake Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes
Strawberry Icebox Cake is simple, light, and full of fresh summer berries. It whips up in minutes and will disappear in seconds!
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21 Angel Food Cupcake Recipe
Angel Food Cupcake Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes
Fluffy and light Angel food cupcakes are the tastiest dessert—especially with a pineapple flavored whipped topping.
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22 Fruit Tart Recipe
Fruit Tart Recipe
Total Time: 50 minutes
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This sweet, buttery Fruit Tart is perfect for spring and summer parties, holidays, or get-togethers. It's simple, yet beautiful!
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23 Mini Fruit Tarts Recipe
Mini Fruit Tarts Recipe
Total Time: 30 minutes
Cute cream-filled Mini Fruit Tarts are a delicious and simple summer dessert! These mini treats are perfect for any get together.
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24 Angel Food Cake Recipe
Angel Food Cake Recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes
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This tender, light as air angel food cake is a must-try! With the perfect amount of sweetness, it's perfect to enjoy all year long.
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25 Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe
Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes
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Perfect for feeding a crowd, this Strawberry Sheet Cake made with fresh pureed strawberries is especially tasty!
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26 Easy Peach Cobbler
Easy Peach Cobbler
Total Time: 45 minutes
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This easy peach cobbler recipe takes 5 minutes to prep and is buttery and delicious. It is our FAVORITE peach dessert!
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27 Ice Cream Sandwich Cake Recipe
Ice Cream Sandwich Cake Recipe
Total Time: 6 hours 5 minutes
Oreo studded Ice Cream Sandwich Cake is cool, creamy, and refreshingly delicious. It is perfect for hot summer days!!
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28 No Bake Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
No Bake Strawberry Shortcake Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
NO-BAKE Strawberry Shortcake has layers of cream filled cookies, vanilla pudding, and strawberries. It's the perfect cool dessert!
29 Peach Dump Cake Recipe
Peach Dump Cake Recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes
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Three ingredient peach dump cake is quick, simple, and utterly tasty. It is warm, gooey, and perfectly peachy!!
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30 Blueberry Dump Cake
Blueberry Dump Cake
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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3 ingredient blueberry dump cake has a buttery topping and a bright fruit filling. Just dump, bake, and serve with vanilla ice cream!
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31 Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding
Nilla Wafer Banana Pudding
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
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Layered Nilla Wafer banana pudding steals the show with its light banana flavor and contrasting creamy and crunchy textures!
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32 Easy Tres Leches Cake
Easy Tres Leches Cake
Total Time: 4 hours 45 minutes
This easy tres leches cake uses a tasty shortcut (a cake mix!) to create one delicious, chilled dessert that feeds around 20 people!
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33 Cherry Dump Cake Recipe
Cherry Dump Cake Recipe
Total Time: 40 minutes
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Studded with pops of fruit and crunchy walnuts, this cherry dump cake recipe is a perfect last-minute dessert!
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34 Strawberry Shortcake Poke Cake Recipe
Strawberry Shortcake Poke Cake Recipe
Total Time: 35 minutes
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This Strawberry Shortcake Poke Cake is the perfect cool and refreshing dessert. Yellow cake with strawberry gelatin poked throughout, topped with a delicious whipped topping and fresh strawberries.
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35 No-Bake Cheesecake Bars Recipe
No-Bake Cheesecake Bars Recipe
Total Time: 4 hours 25 minutes
No-Bake Cheesecake Bars are just the right amount of sweet, with a buttery graham cracker crust. Top them however you like—fruit, chocolate sauce, or caramel and sea salt!
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36 Chocolate Sheet Cake
Chocolate Sheet Cake
Total Time: 35 minutes
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Our best-loved chocolate sheet cake topped with chocolate buttercream is simply delicious and feeds a crowd!
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37 Frozen Strawberry Dessert Recipe
Frozen Strawberry Dessert Recipe
Total Time: 6 hours 10 minutes
Frozen Strawberry Dessert is cool, creamy, and delicious. Topped with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, it's the perfect summery treat!
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38 Dole Whip Recipe
Dole Whip Recipe
Total Time: 15 minutes
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Make Disney's Dole Whip recipe from home with only 3 ingredients! It's cool, creamy, and filled with refreshing pineapple flavor.
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39 Blackberry Cobbler Recipe
Blackberry Cobbler Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Sugary crusted Blackberry Cobbler is sweet & irresistible, especially when served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Enjoy all year long!
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40 Frozen Peanut Butter Pie Recipe
Frozen Peanut Butter Pie Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 28 minutes
Frozen Peanut Butter Pie consists of a graham cracker pretzel crust, frozen peanut butter filling, and a chocolate, pretzel, peanut butter cup topping.
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41 Butterfinger Pie
Butterfinger Pie
Total Time: 4 hours 20 minutes
Indulge in this unbelievably delicious Butterfinger pie with an Oreo crust and homemade Butterfinger ice cream filling!
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42 Lemon Icebox Pie
Lemon Icebox Pie
Total Time: 6 hours 50 minutes
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Deliciously creamy and tangy lemon icebox pie is a classic chilled Southern dessert that's perfect for summer!
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43 Angel Food Ice Cream Cake Recipe
Angel Food Ice Cream Cake Recipe
Total Time: 9 hours 15 minutes
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Angel Food Ice Cream Cake is creamy, light, & refreshing, made from layers of angel food cake and your favorite ice cream flavor. A scrumptious treat, chilled to frozen dessert perfection!
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44 Chocolate Delight Recipe
Chocolate Delight Recipe
Total Time: 54 minutes
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Our chocolate delight recipe features a shortcut cookie crust, creamy pudding, and tangy cream cheese for a delightful layered favorite!
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45 Oreo Pie Recipe
Oreo Pie Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
No-bake Oreo pie is a quick and easy dessert perfect for any time of the year. It comes together in 15 minutes!!
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46 Strawberry Shortcake Trifle Recipe
Strawberry Shortcake Trifle Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes
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Light and fresh Strawberry Shortcake Trifle takes minutes to assemble, which makes it great for entertaining!
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47 Root Beer Float Ice Cream Cake Recipe
Root Beer Float Ice Cream Cake Recipe
Total Time: 2 hours 40 minutes
Root Beer Float Ice Cream Cake is just like a cold and frosty mug of root beer and ice cream, only in cake form!!
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48 Strawberry Pie Recipe
Strawberry Pie Recipe
Total Time: 50 minutes
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Strawberry Pie is the perfect springtime dessert! Fresh strawberries piled high, coated in strawberry jello, and placed in a buttery crust.
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49 Apple Pie Recipe
Apple Pie Recipe
Total Time: 3 hours 45 minutes
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With a flaky, buttery crust made from scratch, and a gooey, sweet filling, this BEST apple pie recipe will not disappoint!
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50 Cherry Pie
Cherry Pie
Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
Classic cherry pie is simple and elegant, but it tastes amazing. With fresh berries and a flaky crust, it's perfect for any occasion!
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51 Lemon Lasagna Recipe
Lemon Lasagna Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
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This luscious Lemon Lush consists of 4 tasty layers, including a Lemon Oreo crust, cream cheese layer, lemon pudding layer and topped with whipped cream!
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52 Blueberry Delight Recipe
Blueberry Delight Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
This Blueberry delight recipe is a chilled layered dessert of shortbread, cream cheese, and sweet blueberry topping, all prepped in only 15 minutes!
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53 Strawberry Shortcake Bars
Strawberry Shortcake Bars
Total Time: 3 hours 30 minutes
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Chilled strawberry shortcake bars are a light and easy twist on a classic dessert with simple steps and lots of fresh berry flavor.
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54 Homemade Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Homemade Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Total Time: 45 minutes
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Our homemade pineapple upside down cake is a family favorite with a secret ingredient that takes this classic to a whole new level!
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55 Cherry Bars
Cherry Bars
Total Time: 43 minutes
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With a hint of almond, a heavenly glaze, and bursts of sweet cherries, these quick cherry bars are the sweetest way to treat a crowd!
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56 Sugar Cookie Bars
Sugar Cookie Bars
Total Time: 35 minutes
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Frosted sugar cookie bars are one of everyone's favorite cookies in bar form! They're ready in 30 minutes, and perfect for sharing.
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57 Cheesecake Cupcakes
Cheesecake Cupcakes
Total Time: 56 minutes
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Bite-size cheesecake cupcakes are a simple 6-ingredient cheesecake treat. Top with cherry pie filling, or any other topping you like!
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58 Blueberry Pie Recipe
Blueberry Pie Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
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Fresh homemade blueberry pie is sweet, tart, and bursting with juicy berries. It's a favorite summer treat!
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59 Key Lime Pie Bars
Key Lime Pie Bars
Total Time: 4 hours 40 minutes
Key lime pie bars are a favorite dessert in a bar – a buttery graham cracker crust and a tart and creamy lime filling!!
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60 Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes Recipe
Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes Recipe
Total Time: 30 minutes
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A fun twist on the classic cake recipe, these pineapple upside down cupcakes have the perfect hint of pineapple flavor!
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61 Homemade Strawberry Cake
Homemade Strawberry Cake
Total Time: 55 minutes
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Homemade strawberry cake elevates a box cake mix with fresh berries and flavor all topped with a fresh strawberry buttercream!
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62 Fresh Peach Cobbler
Fresh Peach Cobbler
Total Time: 50 minutes
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Vibrant fresh peach cobbler served with vanilla ice cream is one of our most popular treats. It's the perfect simple summertime dessert.
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63 Peach Bars Recipe
Peach Bars Recipe
Total Time: 55 minutes
Peach Crumb Bars are one of our favorite summer treats! They're made from a buttery crust layered with juicy peaches and a crumbly topping.
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64 White Chocolate Lasagna Recipe
White Chocolate Lasagna Recipe
Total Time: 10 minutes
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Layers of Golden Oreos, cream cheese, pudding, whipped cream and white chocolate curls make up this DELICIOUS White Chocolate Lasagna that is a hit at every function.
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65 Angel Food Cupcake Recipe
Angel Food Cupcake Recipe
Total Time: 25 minutes
Fluffy and light Angel food cupcakes are the tastiest dessert—especially with a pineapple flavored whipped topping.
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66 Sheet Cake Bites Recipe
Sheet Cake Bites Recipe
Total Time: 20 minutes
Sheet Cake Bites – delicious chocolate sheet cake topped with a yummy homemade chocolate walnut frosting – in bite sized form!
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Hi Kristyn!
First of all, love all of your recipes!
I was looking for some 4th of July dessert images to use for a fb post and came across one that appears to be an Angel food cake, sliced into 3 layers with whipped cream and berries. It lead me to this vault of glorious desserts, yet it isn’t on the list of 50+ desserts. Is it literally just your Angel food cake recipe listed, but prepared/decorated differently? Thanks in advance!
I think it may be! We have been updating a lot of our posts, so it could have been an old photo of the recipe and when we reshot the recipe, we updated it with new photos.