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The Best Easy Fruit Pizza

The Best Easy Fruit Pizza Recipe – from scratch fruit pizza with a crunchy cookie base, creamy cool topping, and

  • Serves 8 slices
  • Prep 20 minutes
  • Cook 15 minutes
  • Total 35 minutes
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The Best Easy Fruit Pizza
fruit cookie with cream and fruit arranged on top of the cream

This dessert pizza is sweet without being sickeningly sweet, with rich cream cheese over a sugar cookie “crust” and topped with slices of fresh fruit.

You can decorate fruit pizza any way you like – with rainbow colored fruit for Saint Patricks Day, with fall fruits like pomegranate and apple for Thanksgiving, or with blueberries and strawberries for a red, white, and blue fruit pizza for the 4th of July!

We hope you love this recipe as much as we do!

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At Ajpal, I add lots of tips in all of my recipes – because I am a home cook without any formal training, and I find I am more confident making dishes when I understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. My goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

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Easy Fruit Pizza Crust

You can make fruit pizza two ways – using a pre-made sugar cookie mix, or using a from scratch sugar cookie recipe.

How To Make Fruit Pizza Crust

Fruit pizza uses a delicious sugar cookie base, baked in a large circle shape, as the “crust” for pizza.

From Scratch:

Please use our Best Ever Sugar Cookies Recipe and prepare according to directions until formed as dough, then use method below to shape as “pizza”.

Using Sugar Cookie Mix:

  • 1 (17.5-oz) sugar cookie mix
  • 1 stick of butter, melted
  • 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
  • 1 egg

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line a large baking pan with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray. Add the cookie mix, butter, flour and egg to a large bowl and stir to combine. Roll the dough out into a large even circle on the prepared baking pan then cut off any rough edges. Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the edges of the cookie turn a light golden color. Remove it from the oven and let it cool completely.

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raw cookie rolled out on baking paper
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fruit cookie with cream and fruit arranged on top of the cream with a cut out of it

Easy Fruit Pizza Topping

Just like pizza needs a great sauce, this fruit pizza needs a topping to help the fruit stick and bring all the flavors together.

This topping is pretty much just like a cream cheese frosting – you can swap the cream cheese for marscapone or ricotta for a less sweet version!

How To Make Fruit Pizza Topping

  • 1 (8-oz) package of cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract or imitation vanilla flavor
  • ¼ teaspoon of salt-   1 cup of powdered sugar, sifted

Beat the cream cheese in a medium size bowl until smooth then add the vanilla and salt and beat again until smooth. Sift in the powdered sugar and beat once again until smooth. Spread the mixture over the sugar cookie in an even layer.

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cream in a bowl
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cream in a bowl

For best results, don’t add cream cheese fruit pizza topping on cookie “crust” until it is completely cooled, or it will melt and become runny.

fruit cookie with cream and fruit arranged on top of the cream, one piece on a fork

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To find more of our easy desserts, click here for our dessert recipe index.

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Recipe FAQs

This cookie pizza can be stored in an airtight container, without the fruit, in the fridge for up to 3 days. Add the fruit when you are about to serve it.

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bowl of sugar, fruits, raspberry, kiwi, and oranges

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The recipe

The Best Easy Fruit Pizza Recipe

The Best Easy Fruit Pizza Recipe – from scratch fruit pizza with a crunchy cookie base, creamy cool topping, and tons of fresh fruit flavor!

  • Serves 8 slices
  • Prep 20 minutes
  • Cook 15 minutes
  • Total 35 minutes

Ingredients

Fruit Pizza Base:

  • 1 package sugar cookie mix
  • ½ cup butter melted
  • 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 1 egg

Fruit Pizza Topping:

  • 8 oz cream cheese (at room temperature)
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 cup powdered sugar (sifted)

Fruit Pizza Garnishes:

  • 4 strawberries (sliced)
  • 1 kiwi (peeled and sliced)
  • 15 oz mandarins (drained)
  • ½ cup blueberries (15-20 blueberries)
  • ½ cup raspberries (10-12 raspberries)
  • ½ cup blackberries (10-12 raspberries)
  • Mint for garnish

Method

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line a large baking pan with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray.

  2. 2

    Add the cookie mix, butter, flour and egg to a large bowl and stir to combine.

  3. 3

    Roll the dough out into a large even circle on the prepared baking pan then cut off any rough edges.

  4. 4

    Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the edges of the cookie turn a light golden color.

  5. 5

    Remove it from the oven and let it cool completely.

  6. 6

    In the meantime, beat the cream cheese in a medium size bowl until smooth then add the vanilla and salt and beat again until smooth.

  7. 7

    Sift in the powdered sugar and beat once again until smooth.

  8. 8

    Spread the mixture over the sugar cookie in an even layer.

  9. 9

    Arrange the fruit in a way that you like. I added a blueberry in the center, then raspberries in a circle around it, then a circle of kiwi slices, then blackberries with blueberries in the next circle, then a circle of strawberries and finally mandarins.

  10. 10

    Slice and serve with fresh mint leaves for garnish.

Equipment

  • French Rolling Pin (18 Inches) –WoodenRoll Pin for Fondant, Pie Crust, Cookie, Pastry, Dough –Tapered Design & Smooth Construction – Essential Kitchen Utensil
  • KitchenAid 9-Speed Digital Hand Mixer with Turbo Beater II Accessories and Pro Whisk – Candy Apple Red
  • USA Pan Bakeware Cookie Sheet, Large, Warp Resistant Nonstick Baking Pan, Made in the USA from Aluminized Steel,Silver
  • TILUCK measuring cups and magnetic measuring spoons set, 5 stainless steel measuring cups, 6 double-sided stainless steel measuring spoons & 1 leveler (5+7)

Nutrition

  • Serving1 g
  • Calories227 kcal
  • Carbohydrates31 g
  • Protein4 g
  • Fat11 g
  • Saturated Fat6 g
  • Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
  • Monounsaturated Fat3 g
  • Trans Fat0.003 g
  • Cholesterol49 mg
  • Sodium172 mg
  • Potassium202 mg
  • Fiber3 g
  • Sugar24 g
  • Vitamin A810 IU
  • Vitamin C31 mg
  • Calcium61 mg
  • Iron1 mg

Questions

How long can this recipe be stored?

This cookie pizza can be stored in an airtight container, without the fruit, in the fridge for up to 3 days. Add the fruit when you are about to serve it.