Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

This Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza recipe is an undeniably sweet and refreshing dessert brings sunshine to any day. A sugar cookie crust topped with a light and sweet cream cheese frosting sprinkled with fresh fruit is just what you need in your life. This delightful treat is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth. 

If you’ve never had a fruit pizza before, you’re in for a sweet surprise. Similar to a fruit tart, this recipe has that crunchy, creamy and tartness that every well-rounded dessert needs. 

Ingredient Notes and Substitutions

• Sugar Cookie Dough – For the sugar cookie dough you’ll need butter, granulated sugar, vanilla extract, a large egg, Kosher salt, baking powder and all-purpose flour. If you’d prefer, you can also buy premade sugar cookie dough from the grocery store, and use that instead. However, you will find that making it from scratch prevents the sugar cookie crust from becoming soggy, even days after the assembly. 
• Cream Cheese – Make sure the cream cheese is softened, it will be easier to work with. 
• Fruit – This recipe was made with strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, kiwi, and mandarin oranges. The flavors of these fruits work really well together with this dessert but feel free to add or subtract any fruits you see fit. 

How To Make A Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

Let’s discuss the steps you’ll take to this delicious fruit pizza recipe. If you want to skip my discussion, tips, information and answers to frequently asked questions, just scroll to the bottom of this post for the printable recipe.

1. Begin by preheating the oven to 350°. While the oven is preheating, grab a large mixing bowl, and a hand mixer, and beat the butter and sugar together for approximately 2 minutes or until it is light and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract and large egg to this mixture and continue to beat this together for another 30 seconds. After that, add the salt, baking powder, and flour, and mix until it’s combined into a dough. 
2. With the dough you just made, grab a 12-inch pizza pan and press the dough onto the pan until it’s a nice even layer.
3. Bake the sugar cookie dough in the oven for about 14-16 minutes or until the color of the crust is a light brown. Allow for the crust to cool completely before moving on.
4. While the crust is cooling, grab another large bowl and a hand mixer and combine the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar and vanilla extract to this mixture and continue to beat it together until fully combined.
5. Once the crust has cooled completely, take a small offset spatula and spread the cream cheese frosting on the sugar cookie crust before decorating. 
6. Top this sugar cookie pizza with the fruit then refrigerate it until it’s ready to be sliced and served. 

Recipe Tips and Advice

Storage – Once assembled this fruit pizza is really only good for a few days after making. It can be stored in the fridge covered for up to three days. After the first day the crust will absorb a lot of moisture from the fruit and frosting and will become soggy. This dessert does not freeze well unfortunately. 

Materials – You’ll need a 12 inch pizza pan, a hand mixer, bowls, measuring cups and spoons as well as an offset spatula specifically for this recipe. It is highly recommended to use a 12 inch pan with sides of some sort for this recipe, because anything smaller will pour over the sides. So if you don’t have a pizza pan you can use a 10×15 pan with sides or go pick yourself up a new pan here.

Tips On Fruit

Prepping the Fruit –  Make sure to wash the fruit and drain it well because excess water will make this pizza soggy. You can pat the fruit dry with a paper towel, and let it sit to dry off. After the fruit dries, cut the fruit into small bite-sized pieces (except the raspberries, blueberries and blackberries). This will make it easier for you to cut the pizza. You can also cut the pizza after frosting it, but before putting the fruit on simply for the presentation.

Amount of Fruit – Depending on if the blackberries you have are fairly big, you might want to get more for the pizza because there may not be enough. For the mandarin oranges, the recipe calls for ½ of a 15 ounce can, but you can also use two of those little single serving 4 ounce cups of mandarin oranges drained. 

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More Recipes To Try

If you love fruit filled desserts like this Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza, here are some other delicious recipes to try!

• Strawberry Lemon Cupcakes
• Pina Colada Pie
• Berry Compote Parfait
• Strawberry Pretzel Pie
• Pineapple Upside Down Cake
• Ambrosia Fruit Salad
• Blueberry Buckle
• Cranberry Bliss Bars