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Soaring Spirit! Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Give this red, white and blue cake room to shine on your serving table. Top a two-layer cake with fondant fireworks raised high with Lollipop Sticks.

Uncle Sam Leads The Cheers Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Set Uncle Sam on your buffet table and you’ll earn a salute from your guests! Turn a Stand Up Cuddly Bear Pan cake into America’s leading man with Gum Paste hat and tie and buttercream details.

Proud Pops Lollipops

Difficulty: Medium

Smiling Uncle Sam lollipops are the ideal way to spread that patriotic spirit to your guests! Use Smiling Face and Cordial Cup Candy Molds to create them, then add a bright bow.

Wrapped in Glory Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Here’s a patriotic cake that succeeds with flying colors! Our Star Pan bakes the classic shape—which you will decorate with a star-studded fondant surface wrapped with striped bunting.

United Stars Mini Cake

Difficulty: Medium

ROTC and military-academy graduates are sure to salute these playfully patriotic petit fours. Bake six at a time in our Mini Star Pan, cool, and cover with melted Candy Melts. Finish with Patriotic Nonpareil Sprinkle Decorations and piped candy details.

A Snack with Sizzle Cupcakes

Difficulty: Medium

What a great way to extend the barbeque all the way through dessert. Cover Mini Ball Pan “grill” with melted candy and make hot dogs and hamburgers with candy clay. Legs are made from foil-covered cookie treat sticks and wheels from black candy clay.

Almond Berry Tart

Difficulty: Medium

Almond Berry Tart looks too good to eat! Refrigerated cookie dough and instant cheesecake pudding make this light tart easy to prepare. Use the freshest berries (or any fruit) you can find at the market. Watch our online video.

The Patriot Cake

Difficulty: Medium

This star cake is a celebration in itself! Using Sugar Sheets! to make stars, stripes and swirls, it’s a firecracker of a dessert for the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and many more.

Another Successful Landing Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Another Successful Landing cake is one giant leap for cake decorating. The astronaut, made with the Stand-Up Cuddly Bear pan, plants the American flag in a lunar landscape cake.

Filled With Pride Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Grab guests’ eyes with a cake punctuated with “born in the U.S.A.” spirit. Mix Patriotic Sprinkle Sparks into angel-food cake batter for a fireworks effect that mirrors the sparkling show staged up top.

Rockets Red Glare Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Sure to be a highlight of any July 4th get-together, this holiday cake is a real blast! It's fun to pretend the red, white and blue rockets are about to explode with faux lit fuses and flying sparks.

Pastel Carousel Cupcakes

Difficulty: Medium

Candy-covered cupcakes piled high with white icing and topped with a sour cherry candy stack up as a tempting centerpiece suitable for any celebration. Present these personal-sized treats for the taking on our Cupcakes –N-More Dessert Stand.

Dreamy Ice Cream Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Celebrate the joys of summer with a cool, creamy, satisfying ice cream creation. No baking needed for the Dreamy Ice Cream Cake! Featuring the sweet simplicity of vanilla ice cream surrounding a refreshing orange sherbet filling, this unique frozen treat is a true crowd pleaser.

Cookie Salute

Difficulty: Medium

Who wouldn’t salute when seeing a plateful of these fun cookies? Cut cookies with the Flag Comfort-Grip Cutter, and add shimmering stripes with our Sparkle Gel.

Tropical Treat Mini Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Serve individual desserts that represent the universal welcome symbol. These tropical pineapples are made using our Mini Egg Pan and covered with multi-color spatula-striped icing stars.

Making Summer Sizzle Cake

Difficulty: Medium

Good times explode when cakes convert to firecrackers. Turn Jelly Roll Pan cakes appropriately dazzling with fondant stars and stripes and fuses created from Patriotic Foil Pix.