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Looking for Classic 4th of July Dinner Recipes? We've got you covered! From BBQ ribs and burgers to potato and pasta salad to festive cookies and pies, here we share some of our absolute favorites! The image is a college of our favorite 4th of July menu items with main dishes, sides, and desserts.

4th of July Dinner Recipes

These Fruit Pizza Cookies with Berries have a sugar cookie base, cream cheese frosting, and an assortment of berries as a decorative topping. Decorating the cookies is fun for kids and adults alike, it's a great group or family activity, and a perfect 4th of July or summer treat. Here the cookies are displayed on a cooling rack, frosted and decorated with different patterns of berries with a linen and container of berries on the sides of the cooling rack.

Fruit Pizza Cookies with Berries

This Old-Fashioned Blueberry Cobbler has a tender buttermilk cake-like topping with a delicious, thick, and rich blueberry filling. We love the sprinkle of sugar on the slightly crisp top of the crust. This comforting dessert is a classic summer favorite and is always accompanied at our house with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Here the cobbler is plated as an individual serving in the main center part of the frame with blueberries and other plates of cobbler in the background.

Old-Fashioned Blueberry Cobbler

This Strawberry Glazed Pie is a favorite summer tradition. Fresh strawberries, generously piled into a homemade or store-bought crust, combined with a sweetened fresh strawberry glaze, topped with a generous dollop of whipped cream, make the ultimate summer dessert. Here the pie is pictured in an overhead shot of the whole pie, filled and ready to serve.

Strawberry Glazed Pie

This Cream Cheese and Strawberry Pie has a graham cracker crust, a no-bake cream cheese filling, and a sweet homemade strawberry pie topping. It is an easy dessert, perfect for the summer holidays, and is a favorite at family gatherings. Here the whole pie is at the center of the image, prepared to serve, with the the focal point on the strawberry filling.

Cream Cheese and Strawberry Pie

This Cherry and Cream Cheese Pie has a graham cracker crust, a no-bake cream cheese filling, and a sweet cherry pie topping. It is an easy dessert, perfect for the summer and winter, and is a favorite at family gatherings. In the image, the pie is cut into with the cut side facing the camera so the viewer sees the inside filling and crust with the cherry topping slightly spilling over the edge.

Cherry and Cream Cheese Pie

We love this easy, foolproof Pie Crust Using a Food Processor. The crust is light and flaky, easy to roll out and transfer to a pie pan, and it keeps its shape when baking. We love this crust with pies and quiches. It elevates the flavor and texture of everything I have made it with and is so easy to make using a food processor. It really is a must try! This image is a picture of pie dough rolled out and trimmed in a pan, with hands illustrating how to flute the edges of a pie crust.

Pie Crust Using a Food Processor

We love that these Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies have the perfect balance of sweet and salty. Loaded with chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and pretzels, every bite has an addicting chocolately-salty crunch. These are a favorite family cookie that always disappear in a flash. Here the cookies are paired in twos or threes and displayed on parchment paper with pretzel pieces, chocolate chips and a glass of m.ilk

Chocolate Chip Pretzel Cookies

We love everything about these cookies, the amazing combination of cranberries, walnuts, and white chocolate, they have the perfect texture and thickness. These disappear quickly every time we make them. Here they are pictured close together cooling on a cooling rack.

Cranberry and Walnut Cookies

This moist, lemon zucchini poppy seed bread includes a lemon pudding mix, yogurt, shredded zucchini, lemon zest, and poppy seed in its ingredients. This delicious bread is covered in a creamy icing that has a touch of almond extract. Here is a picture of an overhead shot of the loaf with the first two pieces sliced.

Lemon Zucchini Poppy Seed Bread