4th of July Flag Cake

Submitted by cbasser

"This is a light and delicious dessert for the 4th of July. My husband's grandmother makes this every year for the family."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 9

ingredients

• For the crust

• 59.14 ml flour
• 177.44 ml butter
• 88.74 ml powdered sugar

• For the icing

• 236.59 ml powdered sugar
• 226.79 g cream cheese
• 226.79 g Cool Whip

• For the stars and stripes

• fresh blueberries
• fresh sliced strawberry
• sugar, for strawberry (optional)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375.
2. Mix with a pastry blender flour, butter and powdered sugar.
3. Push dough evenly onto a baking sheet.
4. Bake about 10 minutes or until golden brown.
5. Mix powdered sugar, softened cream cheese and cool whip with a hand mixer until creamy and well blended.
6. Spread mixture over crust after it has cooled. Reserve a small amount for "stars.".
7. Finish with arranging blueberries and strawberries into American Flag. 7 red strips and 6 white.
8. Pipe reserved icing as stars over blueberries.

Reviews

[natchilds16]

amazing cake making it for 4 th of july