Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake is the recipe that Maria makes every Fourth of July and every most patriotic summer celebration when she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely show-stopping individual dessert centerpiece that captures every single most beloved element of the most festive and the most vibrantly patriotic individual holiday spirit — the most brilliantly vibrant red and the most crisp white and the most properly brilliant blue individual colors — in the most cleverly conceived and the most effortlessly impressive giant individual sugar cookie cake format that requires absolutely no individual layer stacking, no complicated individual decorating technique.
And no professional individual piping skill whatsoever to produce the most dramatically beautiful and the most genuinely crowd-stopping individual 4th of July dessert. She presses the most buttery individual sugar cookie dough into the most single round or rectangular pan, bakes to the most beautifully golden individual crisp-edged and the most properly soft-centered result, frosts with the most creamy and the most properly tinted individual patriotic cream cheese frosting, and decorates with the most vibrantly red and the most brilliantly blue individual star sprinkles and the most generous individual pop rocks for the most genuinely fireworks-inspired individual presentation, cara mia.
Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake is the most easy and deeply extraordinary 4th of July celebration giant sugar cookie made by creaming butter and sugar adding egg and vanilla mixing flour baking powder and salt pressing into pan baking at 350°F for 18 to 20 minutes frosting with cream cheese frosting tinted red white and blue and decorating with patriotic sprinkles. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful celebration recipes and easy holiday favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake recipe is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely festive individual 4th of July celebration that delivers the most brilliantly patriotic and the most visually spectacular individual giant cookie cake in the most effortlessly assembled and the most beginner-friendly individual format — requiring absolutely no individual cookie cutting, no individual rolling, and no individual chilling between the most individual baking sessions.
The most giant individual format means every single individual birthday guest or holiday celebration attendee receives the most dramatically large and the most beautifully generous individual sugar cookie cake slice that is simultaneously more impressive than any conventional individual cut-out cookie and more uniquely festive than any most standard individual sheet cake. Our Strawberry Shortcake Butter Cookies make a beautifully equally festive and equally individually striking companion for a complete and wonderful celebration cookie collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
For the Sugar Cookie Cake:
- 2½ cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter, softened
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 large Egg, room temperature
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Pure Almond Extract (optional but most recommended)
For the Patriotic Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese, room temperature
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- 3 to 4 cups Powdered Sugar, sifted
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- Red Gel Food Coloring
- Blue Gel Food Coloring
For Decoration:
- Red, White, and Blue Star Sprinkles
- Patriotic Jimmies Sprinkles
- Optional: Pop Rocks for the most fireworks-inspired individual presentation
How to Make This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease a 12-inch round pizza pan or a 9 by 13-inch baking pan and line with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, beat the softened butter and sugar together on medium-high for 2 to 3 minutes until the most light and the most beautifully fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla extract, and optional almond extract, mixing until the most well combined.
Gradually add the flour mixture and mix on low just until a soft individual dough forms — do not overmix.
Press the individual sugar cookie dough most evenly into the prepared pan using slightly dampened hands or the bottom of a flat measuring cup for the most uniformly even individual surface. The dough should be approximately half an inch thick.
Bake for 18 to 20 minutes until the edges are set and the most lightly golden but the center still appears very slightly soft — the center firms significantly during cooling. Do not overbake or the most individual giant sugar cookie will lose the most essential soft and the most properly chewy individual center texture.
Cool the most completely in the pan before frosting.
For the cream cheese frosting, beat the room-temperature cream cheese and butter until the most smooth. Add sifted powdered sugar and vanilla, beating until the most fluffy. Divide into three portions — tint one red and one blue with gel food coloring, leave the third portion white.
Apply the most white individual frosting as the most base individual layer. Dollop the red and blue frosting over the white in a most fireworks-inspired individual star burst pattern. Scatter the most generous individual star sprinkles, patriotic jimmies, and optional Pop Rocks over the most completely finished frosted surface.
How to Serve This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Serve at room temperature within 2 hours of adding the Pop Rocks garnish for the most properly crackling and the most genuinely fireworks-inspired individual pop rocks effect. Cut into individual wedge-shaped slices from the round individual cookie cake or individual rectangle portions from the sheet pan version for the most completely charming and the most properly generous individual servings.
For the most completely extraordinary individual 4th of July table presentation, surround the individual frosted cookie cake with small individual American flag picks pressed around the edge and additional patriotic star sprinkles scattered over the most surrounding table surface. Our Strawberry Crunch Cheesecake makes a beautifully equally red-white-and-patriotic companion for a complete and wonderful 4th of July celebration dessert collection.
How to Store This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Store covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days due to the cream cheese frosting. Allow 20 minutes at room temperature before serving for the most properly softened individual frosting. Add the Pop Rocks garnish immediately before serving as they dissolve in moisture during refrigerator storage.
Tips to Make This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Do not overbake — the most critical individual technique for the most properly soft and the most genuinely chewy individual giant sugar cookie cake is removing the individual pan when the edges appear the most lightly golden but the center still appears very slightly underdone. The individual center firms significantly during the most complete cooling period.
Use gel rather than liquid food coloring for the most vibrant and the most properly saturated individual patriotic red and blue individual frosting without any excess individual liquid that would thin the most carefully achieved individual frosting consistency.
Helpful Notes for This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
The optional almond extract is the most single most specific ingredient that makes an individual sugar cookie taste the most authentically bakery-style individual sugar cookie rather than simply an individual butter cookie — even a most small half teaspoon contributes the most recognizably individual sugar cookie character that every most nostalgic sugar cookie lover immediately identifies.
For the most dramatically show-stopping individual fireworks frosting design, use a piping bag fitted with a large star tip to pipe individual frosting rosettes in the most concentric circles alternating red, white, and blue for the most properly fireworks-inspired individual design.
Variation of This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Maria made a version using red and blue sprinkle jimmies mixed directly through the individual cookie dough before pressing into the pan for the most completely extraordinary and the most vibrantly patriotic individual funfetti-style sugar cookie cake. Teresa tried a variation topping the individual frosted cake with fresh blueberries arranged in a star shape and fresh sliced strawberries for the most completely extraordinary and the most naturally vibrant individual fresh fruit patriotic cookie cake.
For a themed birthday version, tint the individual frosting any birthday color and substitute rainbow sprinkles for the individual patriotic individual sprinkles for the most completely extraordinary and the most perfectly personalized individual giant sugar cookie cake. Our Vanilla Sheet Cake makes a beautifully equally crowd-feeding and equally celebration-worthy companion for a complete and wonderful 4th of July celebration collection.
FAQs About This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake Recipe
Can I make this sugar cookie cake ahead of time?
Bake the individual cookie cake up to 2 days ahead and store wrapped tightly at room temperature — frost and decorate on the day of serving for the most properly fresh individual frosting and the most vibrant individual sprinkle appearance. The most baked and the most unfrosted individual cookie cake actually improves in individual flavor and texture over the first day as it the most fully settles.
Why does the cookie cake use cream cheese frosting instead of royal icing?
Cream cheese frosting provides the most beautifully creamy and the most properly tangy individual contrast to the most sweet individual sugar cookie base — the most subtle individual cream cheese tang balances the most sweet individual sugar cookie for the most properly sophisticated and the most genuinely extraordinary individual flavor pairing. Royal icing sets too hard for the most pleasant individual eating experience on a cookie cake.
How do I cut the cookie cake cleanly?
Use a large sharp chef’s knife and wipe clean between each individual cut for the most cleanly defined individual slices. Refrigerate the individual frosted cake for 30 minutes before cutting — the most cold individual frosting holds its most beautifully defined individual shape through each individual cut rather than smearing or spreading.
Conclusion
This Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely patriotic giant sugar cookie celebration that makes every 4th of July and every summer holiday feel genuinely and completely festive through the most soft and the most buttery individual sugar cookie base and the most vibrant red white and blue cream cheese frosting and the most generous star sprinkle and fireworks decoration in every single spectacularly individual and completely irresistible fireworks sugar cookie cake slice.
We hope it brings the same deeply joyful 4th of July celebration magic and the same completely delighted holiday table to your kitchen that it has always brought to ours. Make it, share it, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
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Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake The Most Easy 4th of July Patriotic Red White Blue Giant Frosted Sugar Cookie Celebration Cake You Bake
- Total Time: 1 hour including cooling
- Yield: 12 to 16 servings 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most extraordinary patriotic Fireworks Sugar Cookie Cake made by preheating oven to 350°F greasing 12-inch round pan or 9×13 pan with parchment whisking 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt beating 1 cup softened butter and 1 cup sugar medium-high 2 to 3 minutes light and fluffy adding 1 room temperature egg 1 tsp vanilla and optional 1/2 tsp almond extract mixing well gradually adding flour mixture on low just until soft dough forms pressing evenly into pan with dampened hands approximately 1/2 inch thick baking 18 to 20 minutes until edges set and lightly golden and center slightly soft do not overbake cooling completely beating 8 oz room temperature cream cheese and 1/2 cup room temperature butter smooth adding 3 to 4 cups sifted powdered sugar and vanilla beating fluffy dividing into three portions tinting one red and one blue applying white as base dolloping red and blue in fireworks starburst pattern scattering star sprinkles patriotic jimmies and optional Pop Rocks. A completely perfect patriotic 4th of July giant sugar cookie cake recipe.
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1 cup Unsalted Butter softened
1 cup Granulated Sugar
1 large Egg room temperature
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1/2 tsp Pure Almond Extract optional
8 oz Full-Fat Brick-Style Cream Cheese room temperature
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter room temperature for frosting
3 to 4 cups Powdered Sugar sifted
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract for frosting
Red Gel Food Coloring
Blue Gel Food Coloring
Red White and Blue Star Sprinkles
Patriotic Jimmies Sprinkles
Pop Rocks optional
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F 175°C. Grease 12-inch round pan or 9×13 pan. Line with parchment.
2. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
3. Beat softened butter and sugar medium-high 2 to 3 minutes light and fluffy.
4. Add egg, vanilla, and optional almond extract. Mix well.
5. Gradually add flour mixture on low just until soft dough forms. Do not overmix.
6. Press dough evenly into prepared pan using dampened hands approximately 1/2 inch thick.
7. Bake 18 to 20 minutes until edges set and lightly golden and center slightly soft. Do not overbake.
8. Cool completely in pan.
9. Beat room temperature cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat fluffy.
10. Divide into three portions. Tint one red and one blue. Leave one white.
11. Apply white as base. Dollop red and blue in fireworks starburst pattern over white.
12. Scatter star sprinkles, patriotic jimmies, and optional Pop Rocks.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Cookie Cake, 4th of July, Patriotic
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 28g
- Sodium: 135mg
- Fat: 16g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 42g
- Fiber: 0.5g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 55mg
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