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- Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel.
Today I'm going to show you
how to make five easy 4th of July recipes that are perfect
for celebrating with a crowd or by yourself at home.
You're not going to want to miss these ideas.
The 4th of July is my favorite holiday.
I love the colors of red, white, and blue,
and I love the food and I love the barbecues
and I think I love it so much because there's no pressure.
I don't have to find the perfect gifts for everyone.
And the 4th of July is coming up
and it might look a little bit different this year,
but we can still celebrate.
4th of July desserts are my absolute favorite ones to make
because I love red, white, and blue together.
I love red and white, blue sprinkles and M&Ms,
frostings, no matter what it is,
I love putting it into desserts.
So these five recipes incorporate
my favorite colors and they're delicious.
First I'm going to show you
how to make two easy cupcake recipes,
jazzed up red, white, and blue.
And then I'm going to show you three of my favorite
and most popular 4th of July cookies.
These have sprinkles and red, white and blue M&Ms,
and they're delicious.
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Now let's get in the kitchen.
All right, first off, let's talk about cupcakes.
I've got two different versions here.
One's Funfetti with red, white, and blue sprinkles,
and one is just a simple red, white, and blue topper idea.
First cupcake is a Funfetti cupcake
and I'm just taking yellow cake batter
and adding red, white, and blue sprinkles.
You can use my homemade cake recipe
or just use a box mix, it doesn't matter.
For topping your cupcakes
I'm just using a vanilla buttercream.
Again, you can use my recipe or you can use it from a can,
but I highly recommend my recipe.
And then sprinkle the tops with more sprinkles.
The other easy cupcake idea is more of a topper, and you
could use chocolate cupcakes or vanilla, it doesn't matter.
You could use store-bought or homemade,
but I love using some blue frosting.
Now again, you could make homemade frosting
or just use a can and color it blue,
so frost the cupcakes first with blue frosting and then add
some white frosting or some Cool Whip or whipped cream
and on top of that add a nice, fresh strawberry
and you have a red, white, and blue cupcake topper.
And now we're going to talk about cookies.
I've got three 4th of July cookie recipes for you today.
Two of them use the same batter.
It's a sugar cookie dough, my favorite,
and I make a sugar cookie cake or I make M&M sugar cookies.
Both are delicious, and the other one
is my most popular 4th of July cookies.
I call them fireworks cookies because they look
like a firework with sprinkles and M&Ms
and a secret ingredient that keeps them soft for days,
not that they'll last that long.
For the cookies we're going to start off
by adding three quarters of a cup of butter to a mixer,
followed by three quarters of a cup of granulated sugar.
This is my favorite sugar cookie recipe.
It always turns out perfect.
Cream those together and then you're going to add egg,
a teaspoon of vanilla,
1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda
and 1/2 a teaspoon of cream of tartar
and 1/2 a teaspoon of salt.
Mix them together and then add two cups of flour.
Once you have your sugar cookie dough, you have a choice.
You can either just add M&Ms, scoop them and bake them,
and you have the perfect MNM sugar cookies.
Or you can make my fireworks sugar cookie cake
by adding sprinkles along with the M&Ms into the dough
and placing it into a nine-inch round cake pan.
I like to line mine with foil and spray it
with nonstick cooking spray for easy release.
Just press it into your pan, bake it,
frost it with vanilla frosting,
and you have the perfect fireworks cookie cake.
The last recipe is my most popular 4th of July cookie,
fireworks pudding cookies.
These start with 1/2 a stick of butter and brown sugar.
Mix those together and then you're going to add an egg,
vanilla, baking soda, and salt along with a box
of instant vanilla pudding mix.
I love adding pudding mix to cookies
because it keeps them soft for days
and it adds such a great flavor.
You could actually use any flavor pudding mix that you want.
Add your flour, mix together,
and then we're going to add the fireworks,
patriotic M&Ms and sprinkles.
Mix them together, bake the cookies, and you have one
of the best chocolate chip cookie recipes you'll ever eat.
Leave me a comment and let me know
which one you're going to make first.
I hope you have a wonderful and safe 4th of July.
Keep watching for more great ideas.