Party Menu

Burger-mania. Add a patriotic touch to the all-American burger: use a star-shaped 4" cookie cutter to make perfect Fourth of July patties and burger rolls. Or, star-spangle round burgers by topping them with the precut star-shaped cheese pieces made by some companies.

Freeze blueberries and raspberries in ice cube trays to make star-spangled cubes.

Make a rocket pop drink. Fill a glass with ice cubes and pour in cranberry juice, blue Gatorade®, and finally, 7-Up®. Be sure to carefully pour each drink directly onto the ice cubes to maintain the patriotic colors.

Using blackberries and cut-up strawberries and bananas, have the kids create a fruit flag using the fruit pieces. They can place this on a cookie tray that will be laid out for serving to the rest of the guests. Second, provide lollipop sticks to the kids so they can skewer the fruits to make patriotic fruit kabobs.

Using a star cookie cutter, make up a batch of patriotic Jell-O® Jigglers, star sugar cookies, star cheese slices, and star sandwiches filled with cream cheese and blackberry jam.

Make a batch of favorite cupcakes and have the kids frost and decorate them with red, white, and blue sprinkles and candies.

Fruity Flag Cake

Make your favorite cake mix or cake recipe in a large, rectangular pan. Once it’s cool, ice with Cool Whip® or white frosting. Create stripes with rows of sliced strawberries and make a square of blueberries in the upper left-hand corner. Refrigerate until ready to serve. If carefully supervised, use sparklers as candles or get long skinny tapers in red, white, and blue.

Red, White & Blueberry Freeze Pops

You will need:

• 1 quart raspberry juice
• 1 pint frozen vanilla yogurt
• 3/4 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
• 2 cups cold water
• 10 paper cups
• Popsicle® sticks

To Make:

• Assemble the cups on a cookie tray.
• Pour one inch of the raspberry juice into each cup and place the tray in the freezer.
• When the juice is partially frozen, set a Popsicle stick in the center of each cup and let the juice freeze solid.
• Blend one cup of the water and four large scoops of frozen yogurt until smooth.
• Pour one inch of the yogurt mix on top of the frozen juice layer in each cup and freeze again.
• Once the yogurt layer sets, blend the second cup of water, blueberries, and a large scoop of the frozen yogurt.
• Spoon the blueberry mix into the cups and freeze overnight.
• To serve, slide the pop out of the cup.