Fruit Pizza

Fruit Pizza is covered bursting with colorful fresh fruit full of naturally sweet flavors on a sugar cookie crust. It has dreamy cream cheese frosting that make this fruit dessert absolutely irresistible.

This is a great dessert pizza is perfect to bring for Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day and all throughout the summer! It makes the best summer dessert.

 

Fruit Pizza

This easy fruit pizza recipe is like a large cookie with a sweet cream cheese frosting and your favorite fruits. It’s almost like having a wonderful fruit salad with a sugar cookie!

Ingredients

For the crust:

• 1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated sugar cookies dough (like Pillsbury)
• You can also use homemade cookie dough, but we like the store-bought to keep things simple.

For the frosting:

• 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
• ⅓ cup sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla

Fruit toppings:

• kiwifruit – peeled, halved lengthwise and sliced
• mandarin oranges – drained
• fresh strawberries – remove hull and slice thin
• fresh blueberries – try not to use frozen blueberries as they will release water when thawed
• apple jelly

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 12-inch round pizza pan with cooking spray. 
• Press the sugar cookie dough onto the prepared pizza pan until it’s about ⅛ thick. Pierce several holes in the dough with a fork. 
• Bake sugar cookie “crust” for 8-10 minutes or until lightly golden brown. 
• Remove from oven and let cool completely on pan. 
• While it’s cooling, make the cream cheese frosting layer. 
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until smooth and creamy. 
• Once the baked crust is cooled spread frosting on top of pizza like you would pizza sauce. 

• Top with sliced fruit and decorate as desired. 
• Stir apple jelly until smooth and use a pastry brush to smooth it over fruit. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour
• Slice like a pizza and serve.
• Store in an airtight container.

What Type of Fruit Should I Use?

This recipe is so versatile that you can use so many combinations of fruit. Start with your favorite fresh fruits and go from there. Use a variety of fresh fruit that are different colors so you get a colorful fruit pizza.

If you use a canned fruit, like mandarin oranges or pineapple rings you’ll want to fully drain them and pat them dry with a paper towel so they don’t leak excess juices on top of the pizza.

How to Decorate

Now’s the fun part! You can follow a pattern like we did or you can let the kids loose and let them place the fruit slices however they want.

Do I Have to Use the Fruit Glaze?

There is an optional glaze that you can leave off if you like to keep your fruit more natural in appearance and flavor.

What Fruit Should I Use on a Fruit Pizza?

The sky is the limit on what fruit you can use on a sugar cookie fruit pizza. Experiment and try any of your favorite fruits .

Can You Prepare Fruit Pizza Ahead?

If you need to prepare it ahead of time, we recommend making the crust and frosting layer only. Chop the fruit and place in individual containers to decorate right before serving.

How Do You Keep Fruit Pizza From Getting Soggy?

The best tip to keep the pizza from getting soft and soggy is to serve and eat it right away. If you refrigerate after you’ve made it, the natural juices from the fruit might seep into the curst, making it soggy.

We love to make this in the spring and summer when fresh fruits are most available. It makes a great treat for Easter dessert to any of the summer holidays and always gets rave reviews. This is a true crowd pleaser!

Alternatives

• fruit pizza cookies – you can cut cookie shapes and cook them as you would sugar cookies, then frost and decorate with fruit. I’d recommend cutting smaller slices of fruit for the fruit cookies.
• switch the fruit – make it patriotic with just strawberries and blueberries
• chocolate – skip the fruit and top with chocolate chips and pieces of candy bars

This is such a fun treat that really celebrates all the fresh fruits of summer.

Want More Summer Desserts?

• Lemon Lush
• Strawberry Poke Cake
• Pig Pickin’ Cake (pineapple and mandarin oranges)
• S’mores Dip