The Best Easy Fruit Pizza Recipe – from scratch fruit pizza with a crunchy cookie base, creamy cool topping, and tons of fresh fruit flavor!
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!
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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.
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.
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.
Other Easy Desserts You’ll Love
We love lots of simple, delicious, fruit-based dishes here – favrites like creme anglaise and berries, .
To find more of our easy desserts, click here for our dessert recipe index.
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.
The Best Easy Fruit Pizza Recipe
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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!
Ingredients
- Fruit Pizza Base:
- 1 (17.5-oz) sugar cookie mix*
- 1 stick of butter, melted*
- 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour*
- 1 egg*
- OR: use our chewy sugar cookie recipe for a from-scratch base
- 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
- Fruit Pizza Garnishes:
- 4 strawberries, sliced
- 1 kiwi, peeled and sliced
- 1 (15-oz) can of mandarins, drained and only the whole ones picked out
- ½ cup of blueberries (15-20 blueberries)
- ½ cup of raspberries (10-12 raspberries)
- ½ cup of blackberries (10-12 raspberries)
- Mint for garnish
Instructions
- 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.
- 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.
- Sift in the powdered sugar and beat once again until smooth.
- Spread the mixture over the sugar cookie in an even layer.
- 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.
- Slice and serve with fresh mint leaves for garnish.
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