Actually Delicious, Dye-Free Desserts That Are Naturally Red, White, & Blue

We love this healthyish recipe for red white and blueberry trifle, and we also love how incredibly easy it is -- it starts with a premade angel food cake, some berries, and a filling that's just four ingredients whipped together. 

These strawberry blueberry shortcakes are absolutely delicious, but if time's a factor (and when isn't it?), using a mix like Bisquick instead of making the shortcakes from scratch can be a real time-saver -- and just as tasty. 

These mixed berry and yogurt popsicles are incredibly cute and perfect for the holiday -- plus, they're free from refined sugar, in addition to being free of dyes. We love how cool and creamy these are (and healthy, too)!

We love a classic flag cake, but this recipe is great because it uses nonfat Greek yogurt -- and still tastes amazing. Alternatively, we recommend using the delicious frosting and smart decor tips for this American Flag cake on a premade sheet cake from the grocery store. 

These great, no-bake lemon mousse fruit parfaits are so easy to make and are an amazingly easy way to get kids to eat their fruit -- plus the delicate lemon flavor makes it a little more elegant and elevated for the adults in the room. 

These easy phyllo fruit cups come together in a snap -- literally, just 15 minutes! -- and they're really charming, individual-sized desserts. Fill them with a mix of strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry for a themed display! 

This recipe for chocolate hazelnut berry dessert pizza only calls for strawberries, but throw a handful of blueberries and blackberries on top for a little more of a red, white, and blue theme (and drizzle with white chocolate for extra white stripes)!

This easy watermelon + berry fruit pizza is so simple and fun-looking -- not to mention healthful and tasty -- and with its color scheme, it's perfect for July 4th! It's also an assembly project for kids to DIY their own slices!

These red white and blue berry coconut slushies are as completely cute as they are totally healthy. While the recipe calls for agave nectar, if the lemonade is already sweet enough it probably won't be necessary with all the fruit!

We love the idea of using this rainbow cake recipe to create a red white and blue cake with no dyes -- just select the colors and foods needed to give the special food-based dyes (beet or pomegranate, strawberry, or raspberry for red; blueberry for blue) and go to town!

These no-dye red white and blue cookies use dried cranberries and blueberries for a little dose of healthfulness (and white chocolate chips because there's such a thing as being too healthy, after all). 

Whether we have zero time and just want to grab a plain cheesecake from the store, top it with raspberries and blueberries, and call it a Fourth of July celebration cake, or we want to go all-out and make this mixed-berry cheesecake from scratch, we're still going to make our families incredibly happy. 

While this recipe for individual berry trifles calls for pound cake -- and the recipe for it is a delicious one! -- it's also totally fine to use a store-bought pound cake, which makes this recipe a whole lot faster. 

What we love about this mixed-berry frozen yogurt bark is how incredibly simple it is -- and it takes exactly zero heating up of the house or oven. Perfect for having little hands helping out!

These mini berry tarts are absolutely awesome -- we love that the cups are made from a refrigerated cookie dough, so it's still impressive-looking but doable even for moms with little time on their hands (so, all moms). 

If a cheese course counts as a dessert in France, we think this watermelon blueberry and feta fruit salad should definitely count as a great dessert here in US. It's delicious, healthy, salty and sweet, and super good for us, too. 

Yes, this patriotic stars and stripes pie is a little bit extra -- and definitely takes some work! -- but it's so cute, and with older kids, it can be a fun family activity making it. Besides, this is the kind of treat that is even better when it's imperfect and looks homemade.

This mixed berry banana bread is so delicious on its own -- and is so right for the holiday with blueberries and any red fruit, including cranberries, strawberries, cherries, or raspberries. It's even better with a little whipped cream cheese spread. 

We love this delicious recipe for panna cotta with fresh berries, which really elevates the idea of patriotic, flag-themed desserts into something more refined (while still being simple to make -- and no need to even heat up the kitchen!).

For a really elevated play on the patriotic cake theme, this lemon tart with mascarpone and fresh berries is so incredibly delicious and subtle. While it's a little more complex than some of the others on this list, it's still totally doable.