New · The 4th of July Bundle

The 4th of July dessert
you can eat with one hand.

Three handheld kits in one box. No slicing. No paper plates. No melting cake on a picnic blanket. Just summer in a bite.

Lemon Meringue Tartlets — handheld dessert flatlay
Get the Bundle — $142.75
Free shipping · Free spatula · Free tote bag
The problem with 4th of July dessert

You're not eating cake on a folding table.

Most dessert marketing around the 4th leans on the same image — a sheet cake on a long table, sparklers stuck in it, a flag draped behind. It's a beautiful image. It also doesn't match how most people actually celebrate the 4th.

Most people are at a backyard, a park, a beach, or a friend-of-a-friend's pool. They're moving around. They're holding a drink. They don't want to balance a paper plate with a wobbly slice of cake on it.

They want something they can pick up with one hand, eat in three bites, and not worry about. And whoever brought that dessert is the person everyone remembers.

The solution

Three kits. One box. Summer in a bite.

The 4th of July Bundle is built around one rule: every dessert in the box has to be finished, individual, and handheld. No slicing required.

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Handheld

Pick it up with one hand. Eat in two or three bites. No plate, no fork.

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Individual

Each serving is its own piece. People take what they want. You don't have to portion anything.

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Finished

You bake it at home, set the tray down at the party, walk away. No assembly in the field.

What's in the bundle

Three kits, hand-picked for the 4th.

Each kit makes individual servings. Each one travels. Each one disappears off the tray before the burgers come off the grill.

Banana Pudding Cupcakes
Kit 1 — Southern Classic

Banana Pudding Cupcakes

Southern banana pudding turned into a cupcake. Vanilla wafer crumble in the bottom, fluffy cake, vanilla custard piped into the center, sliced banana on top. You hold it like a cupcake and eat it like banana pudding.

$49.00 — included in the bundle
Red Velvet Brownie Bites & Cake Pops
Kit 2 — Two Formats In One

Red Velvet Brownie Bites & Cake Pops

This kit makes two things at once. The brownie bites are red velvet baked into squares the size of a poker chip — small, dense, cream cheese frosting on top. The cake pops use the same batter rolled into balls, dipped, set on a stick. One kit, two trays, every kid at the party happy.

$49.00 — included in the bundle
Lemon Meringue Tartlets
Kit 3 — The Showstopper

Lemon Meringue Tartlets

Mini lemon meringue pies. Buttery pastry shell, tart lemon curd in the middle, meringue piped on top and torched until the peaks brown. (No kitchen torch? Stick them under the broiler for 30 seconds.) Fair warning — you'll eat some of the lemon curd with a spoon before it makes it into the shells.

$44.75 — included in the bundle
Plus, with every bundle

Two things in the box you keep forever.

Order the bundle and we drop in a free silicone spatula and a free canvas tote bag. Not branded swag — actual kitchen tools you'll use long after the holiday is over.

Heat-resistant silicone spatula

Heat-Resistant Silicone Spatula

The same one we use in every kit. Heat-safe, dishwasher-safe, doesn't melt on a hot pan.

$11.95 FREE with the bundle
Signature canvas tote bag

Signature Canvas Tote Bag

100% cotton, machine washable, holds way more groceries than it looks like it can. The one you'll grab every weekend.

$25.75 FREE with the bundle
The math

$180.45 in the box. $142.75 at checkout.

No bundle discount. No coupon code. The kits are at full price. The free shipping kicks in automatically because the order clears $85. The spatula and tote are on us as a thank-you for ordering the bundle.

  • Banana Pudding Cupcakes kit $49.00
  • Red Velvet Brownie Bites & Cake Pops kit $49.00
  • Lemon Meringue Tartlets kit $44.75
  • Standard shipping (any order over $85) FREE
  • Heat-Resistant Silicone Spatula ($11.95 value) FREE
  • Signature Canvas Tote Bag ($25.75 value) FREE
  • You pay $142.75
Why these three

I had a shortlist of five.

Almond Raspberry Tart was on it. So was Lemon Poppy Seed Cake.

I cut them both for the same reason. Almond Raspberry is a single tart you slice and serve on plates. Beautiful - but the whole point of this bundle is no plates. Lemon Poppy Seed Cake is a layer cake. Same problem.

The three that made it have one thing in common. You set the finished tray down at the park, walk away, and the dessert finishes itself. Nobody has to slice anything. Nobody balances anything. The cupcakes have wrappers. The brownie bites pick up clean. The tartlets sit in their own shells.

That's it. That's the whole bundle thesis. The 4th of July dessert that doesn't make you the dessert person at the party - the one stuck behind the cake all night with a knife and a stack of paper plates.

You set it down. You go drink a beer. The tray empties.

— Paula, Crumble Crate

Questions, answered

What people ask before ordering.

Order by Sunday June 28 at 11:59 PM ET. The box ships Monday June 29 and arrives by Friday July 3 — the day before the 4th. After Sunday night, standard shipping won't get the box there in time. The kits will still be great. They just won't be at your picnic.

No. The kits keep on the shelf until you're ready. Most people bake the day before — give yourself an afternoon. Everything in the bundle is designed to hold overnight, so you're not scrambling on the morning of the 4th.

Each kit is built for someone who's never made the recipe before. Pre-measured ingredients, step-by-step recipe card, scannable QR code that opens a video walkthrough. The hardest of the three is probably the lemon meringue (the meringue takes a little practice) — but a slightly-imperfect meringue still tastes great.

Roughly 24–36 servings depending on how big you make each one. Cupcakes yield 8–12. Brownie bites and cake pops together yield about 12. Lemon meringue tartlets yield 8. Enough for a small picnic, generous for a backyard.

You can order any kit on its own from the kit catalog. The free spatula and tote bag only come with the full bundle though — that's the trade-off.

A few basics — mixing bowls, a hand mixer, an oven. For the lemon meringue tartlets a kitchen torch is nice but not required (your broiler does the same job in 30 seconds). The free silicone spatula in the bundle covers the one tool we use in every recipe.

All three kits contain wheat, dairy, and eggs. The Banana Pudding Cupcakes and Red Velvet kits contain no nuts; the Lemon Meringue Tartlets are made in a facility that handles tree nuts. Full ingredient lists are on each kit's product page.

If anything arrives damaged or wrong, email us within 7 days at hello@crumblecrate.com and we'll fix it. Because the kits include perishable items once opened, we can't accept returns on opened kits — but if there's a problem, talk to us.

Pre-measured ingredients

Every kit is portioned. No grocery list, no scale.

Recipe card + video

Printed card in the box. QR code opens the video walkthrough.

Made fresh for each order

Kits are assembled the week they ship. Nothing sits on a shelf.

Order before Sunday June 28, 11:59 PM ET

Ready to be the dessert person?

Three handheld kits. Free shipping. Free spatula. Free tote bag. $142.75 at checkout, $180.45 in the box.

Questions? Email roxy@crumblecrate.com — we read every message.

The truck leaves Monday morning.

Order by Sunday June 28 at 11:59 PM ET to get the box by Friday July 3.

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