Crisp flaky layers of puff pastry separated by fluffy layers of lemon cream & berries arranged in a patriotic pattern. Easy delicious American Flag Dessert!
American Flag Dessert
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An easy delicious dessert that tastes even better than it looks! Puff pastry brushed with corn syrup and baked to crisp flakiness, topped with fluffy delicious lemon cream and then covered in bright colored berries to form an American Flag pattern.
It is up to you whether you make one large American Flag Dessert Napoleon, or multiple mini ones. You do need to know that if you plan to make multiple mini ones, you need to cut the puff pastry sheets to size BEFORE baking.
Y’all I feel so low tonight. So writing a dessert post is so incredibly fitting.
Oftentimes when I feel low I participate in an exercise of the mind where I try to think of things I am grateful for. It’s hard to feel unhappy when you’re focused on gratitude…
I live in America, mine are truly first world problems. I am so grateful to live here and raise my children here and have the freedoms that allow me such unhappiness and such happiness.
We can choose to be grateful, no matter what. -Dieter F Uchtdorf
If tomorrow all my things were gone
I’d work for all my life.
And I had had to start again,
With just my children and my life.
Then I’d thank my lucky stars to be livin’ here today,
Cause the flag still stand for freedom and they can’t take that away
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” -W.L Wilkie
And I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free
And I won’t forget the ones who died who gave that right to me
And I’ll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today
Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the USA.
-Lee Greenwood
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Recipe for American Flag Dessert- Raspberry Lemon Napoleon
Save RecipeIngredients
- 1 sheet Puff Pastry, cut down the middle in exact half (so that you now have two long rectangles rather than one square).
- -OR- 2 Rectangular Sheets of Puff Pastry
- 2 Tablespoons Light Corn Syrup
- 2 tsp Brown Sugar
- Fresh berries - Raspberries or Strawberries for the red stripes and blueberries or blackberries for the square of blue.
- 1/2 c heavy whipping cream
- 2 8oz room temperature cream cheese
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 TBS lemon juice
- 3/4 c powder sugar
- Dash of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- On a baking sheet topped with parchment paper, lay your puff pastry sheets.
- Cover puff pastries with a second sheet of parchment paper, and top with a second baking sheet.
- Bake for 18-30 minutes (depending on the brand of puff pastry you choose to use).
- When light tan in color; Remove from oven, and brush the top of each pastry with 1 tablespoon of Light Corn Syrup each.
- Place back in the oven for 6-7 more minutes until puff pastries are golden brown and corn syrup is bubbly.
- Immediately sprinkle each sheet with a small amount of brown sugar and salt.
- Let cool.
- Whip your heavy cream until it is thick.
- In a separate bowl, mix well the cream cheese, vanilla, and lemon juice until smooth and creamy. Then add the powder sugar and salt and continue mixing until well incorporated.
- Spoon together your whipped cream and your cream cheese mixture.
- At this point, I like to scoop the lemon crème into a piping bag with a large tip opening and pipe it onto my baked sheets of puff pastry.
- Top with fresh berries in the design of your choice and enjoy!
- ***It is up to you whether you make one large American Flag Dessert Napoleon, or multiple mini ones. You do need to know that if you plan to make multiple mini ones, you need to cut the puff pastry sheets to size BEFORE baking.
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