The most delicious and dazzling American Flag Cake – making it the best Fourth of July celebration cake! You get a giant, fluffy and moist vanilla sheet cake topped with a decadent, sweet cream cheese frosting, and it’s finished with vibrant fresh berries in a simple design that mimics the American flag.

This easy flag cake is a recipe tradition you’ll want on repeat every year! And it doesn’t just have to be for the Fourth of July.

You can instead make this flag cake for a birthday and simply scatter fresh berries all over the top, or come up with your own captivating design out of fresh fruit. You can also make it featuring a different country, just try to find fresh fruit that highlights that countries flags colors, or tint your frosting and pipe it to match the design (omitting the fruit).

This extra-large cake is baked in a cookie sheet pan making enough to feed a crowd, so it’s ideal for lots of company and various celebrations. It’s like the vanilla version of a chocolate Texas sheet cake, in other words it’s dangerously delicious!

It’s definitely over the top how much cake I’ve eaten in the last few weeks testing out the recipe, but it was just one of those desserts that’s far too temptingly good to resist. I’ve perfected it to be everything you’d want in a cake and them some.

Happy Fourth, and happy summer everyone!

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