Grape and Lemon Make Blue

A layer of blue, another layer of red, topped with white and you have an easy 4th of July dessert.

Ingredients:
1 box (3 ounce) grape gelatin
1 box (3 ounce) lemon jello
2 cups hot water
4 cups strawberries, sliced
8 ounces whipped topping

Directions:
Mix together grape and yellow gelatin with hot water - to make blue.
Pour into a clear glass serving dish.
Refrigerate until firm.
Arrange sliced strawberries over top of gelatin.
Top with whipped topping.

Here's another easy to make 4th of July idea:
4th of July Cupcakes...
Prepare cupcakes using a packaged cake mix.
Mix Wilton blue food coloring paste (end of a toothpick's worth of coloring) into a container of buttercream icing.
Put icing into an icing decorator bag attached with a large star tip and top each cupcake. Sprinkle with red, white and blue candies.

Lemon Cheese Bars

This lemon cheese bar recipe has a bottom crust made with a cake mix. It's creamy taste is so good, yet easy to prepare. Either top with the remaining crumbs used for the crust or dust with confectioners' sugar.

Ingredients:

1 box lemon cake mix with pudding

2 eggs, divided

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a bowl, mix cake mix, 1 egg and oil; work until crumbly; reserve one cup.

Pat remaining mixture lightly into ungreased 13 x 9 x 2- inch baking pan.

Beat cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and 1 egg until light and smooth; spread over crust.

Sprinkle reserved crumb mixture over top - or omit this step if you choose to dust confectioners' sugar over cooled bars.

Bake for 15 minutes; cool; cut into 16 bars.