Four Easy Foods for the Fourth of July

Make Rice Krispy treats how you normally would, except this time divide the treats into thirds while they are still warm. Add a few drops of blue coloring to one-third and red food coloring to another third and then stir them until the color is mixed in. Now lay down the treats in layers in your pan. When you cut your treats to put on a plate, they will be patriotic red, white and blue.

Take your favorite red, white and blue fruit and skewer them to make festive Fourth of July fruit kabobs. Fruit suggestions are bananas, strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, apples, huckleberries and cherries.

Bake your favorite boxed white or red velvet cupcakes. Frost your cupcakes with white, red or blue frosting, using food coloring to color your frosting if necessary. Top your cupcake with the missing color. You can garnish your cupcakes with sprinkles, fruits, toys… you name it. Just have fun.

Use your favorite sugar cookie recipe or buy premade sugar cookie dough. Mix red, white and blue sprinkles into your cookie dough, and then bake your cookies as directed. You will end up with a cookie that looks like a firework.