Easy July 4th Breakfast Pastry

American Flag Breakfast Pastry

Start your 4th of July celebrations with a bang by serving up a festive and easy-to-make American flag breakfast pastry! Made with flaky crescent dough, a luscious cream cheese mixture, vibrant strawberry jam, and fresh blueberries, this delightful treat not only tastes amazing but also looks the part.

Perfect for a patriotic breakfast or brunch, this pastry is a showstopper that will have your family and friends oohing and aahing before they even take a bite. Ready in no time, this recipe combines simplicity with festive flair, making your Independence Day morning as special as the fireworks to come.

Pair this with some strawberries, blueberries, and a fun Freezer Smoothie Pack for a great breakfast.

I recently posted a very simple strawberry breakfast pastry. This is essentially the same thing in a different, more festive form. And it is so easy to make even the most culinary challenged can handle it. I promise. So easy, so cute, so tasty!!

Here is why we love making it:

• Festive Appearance: Looks just like an American flag, perfect for 4th of July celebrations.
• Easy to Make: Uses simple ingredients like crescent dough, cream cheese, strawberry jam, and blueberries.
• Quick Preparation: Ready in no time, making it ideal for a busy holiday morning. And can even be made ahead.
• Delicious Flavor: Combines creamy, sweet, and fruity flavors in every bite.
• Kid-Friendly: Fun and engaging for kids to help decorate and enjoy.
• Versatile: Perfect for breakfast, brunch, or as a festive snack.
• Crowd-Pleaser: Sure to impress and delight family and friends.
• Minimal Cleanup: Simple ingredients and easy assembly mean less mess in the kitchen.

What you need for this Festive Breakfast:

• 1 tube of Crescent Seamless Dough Sheet (I used Pillsbury)
• 1 8 ounce package cream cheese
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup favorite strawberry jam, or fresh strawberries pureed
• 1 cup blueberries

How to Make Patriotic Pastry Flag:

• Preheat your oven to 375
• In a medium sized bowl, use a hand mixer to combine the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla, whipping until smooth and creamy.
  
• Put cream cheese mixture into a piping bag, or a ziptop bag, and snip 1 corner.
  
• Spray a cooking sheet with cooking spray, or line it with parchment paper and spray the parchment paper.
• Roll the crescent dough out onto it
  
• Pipe a little cream cheese mixture onto the left hand top corner, to make the “stars” portion of an American flag, and use a spatula to smooth it out. Gently push your blueberries into the cream cheese mixture in the top left corner, (don’t smush them, but embed them in the mixture and dough so they stay put), forming the blue portion of the flag. Note: If you want less of the cream cheese mixture you can just press the blueberries into the dough, and pipe a little cream cheese mixture around the blueberries.
  
  
• Next, make some line indentations into the dough to help you evenly space the stripes for your flap. I used the handle of a wooden spoon, and just pressed lightly. You want 7 “red” strips, and 6 white, starting with red at the top.
• Take your jam,  and put it in a piping bag, or in a ziplock and snip off a corner, and pipe it in straight lines into those indentations you made.
  
• Then pipe the cream cheese mixture onto the alternating lines, and around the blueberries, if you didn’t put some down first.
  
• Bake for 10-13 minutes, until edges are golden brown.

This is what it looks like before it is baked:

And this is what it looks like after:

So easy and fun! And you can make it the day before so you don’t have anything to do the day of. I actually think these pastries taste better a day later as they have a chance to cool and get nice and flaky, the way a pastry should be.

And might I suggest serving it with milk, fresh watermelon, and additional blueberries for even more Red, White, and Blue!

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• Red White and Blue Fried Chicken Dipping Sauces
• Campfire Cones
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4th of July Breakfast Pastry

An easy to make, 15-20 minute breakfast pastry of an American Flag, so cute and easy to make, and can be made ahead for a delicious Independence Day breakfast idea.

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Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 4th of July, 4th of July Breakfast, breakfast, flag pastry

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 365kcal

Author: Rachael

Equipment

• Parchment
• Baking Sheet
• Piping bags or zip top bags

Ingredients

• 1 tube of Crescent Seamless Dough Sheet I used Pillsbury
• 1 8 ounce package cream cheese
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup favorite strawberry jam or fresh strawberries pureed
• 1 cup blueberries

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 375
• In a medium sized bowl, use a hand mixer to combine the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla, whipping until smooth and creamy.
• Put cream cheese mixture into a piping bag, or a ziptop bag, and snip 1 corner.
• Spray a cooking sheet with cooking spray or line with parchment and spray that with cooking spray
• Roll the crescent dough out onto it
• Pipe a little cream cheese mixture onto the left hand top corner, to make the "stars" portion of an American flag, and use a spatula to smooth it out. Gently push your blueberries into the cream cheese mixture in the top left corner, (don't smush them, but embed them in the mixture and dough so they stay put), forming the blue portion of the flag. Note: If you want less of the cream cheese mixture you can just press the blueberries into the dough, and pipe a little cream cheese mixture around the blueberries.
• Next, make some line indentations into the dough to help you evenly space the stripes for your flap. I used the handle of a wooden spoon, and just pressed lightly. You want 7 "red" strips, and 6 white, starting with red at the top.
• Take your jam,  and put it in a piping bag, or in a ziplock and snip off a corner, and pipe it in straight lines into those indentations you made.
• Then pipe the cream cheese mixture onto the alternating lines, and around the blueberries, if you didn't put some down first.
• Bake for 10-13 minutes, until edges are golden brown.
• Let cool, then slice and enjoy

Nutrition

Calories: 365kcal | Carbohydrates: 58g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 38mg | Sodium: 174mg | Potassium: 114mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 43g | Vitamin A: 521IU | Vitamin C: 7mg | Calcium: 50mg | Iron: 0.5mg

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