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Fruit pizza is one of those summer desserts that looks so fancy but it’s totally easy to whip together. I make my fruit pizza with a cookie dough crust, topped with a cream cheese frosting and delightfully decorated with your favorite fruits. It’s such a fun treat for adults and kids alike, and makes for a beautiful dish to be the center of a party spread.
If you need to bring a dish to pass at a party, this fruit pizza is one that’s going to turn heads. So easily customizable, a cookie canvas for your favorite fruits. My kids like to think of it as a giant sugar cookie, and similarly to a regular pizza, they’re first to volunteer to help decorate it. Or should I say eat the toppings as they’re added, I don’t blame them!
“Really good dessert! I made it yesterday and my whole family liked it. I put the leftovers in the refrigerator overnight and I had a bit for breakfast this morning and it honestly tastes even better than it did yesterday! Highly recommend making it.” – Lisa
Recipe at a glance
Cuisine Inspiration: American
Primary Cooking Method: Baking & Assembly
Dietary Info: Vegetarian
Key Flavor: Fruity and Creamy
Skill Level: Easy
Summary
- Kid-Friendly Fun: Turn dessert time into a creative adventure that the kids will love. Bring them into the kitchen and let them take part in the decorating fun!
- Seasonal Fruit Showcase: From the freshness of summer berries to crisp fall apples, this recipe allows you to tailor the toppings based on what’s in season.
- Crowd Pleaser: This fruit pizza appeals to all ages, ensuring that every slice brings joy to everyone. Perfect for parties, potlucks, or family dinners where dessert is a must.
Ingredients you’ll need to make a fruit pizza
- Butter: Softened butter adds to the rich and tender texture of the cookie crust, ensuring a melt-in-your-mouth experience.
- Granulated Sugar: Sweetens the cookie crust, providing the perfect balance of sweetness to complement the fresh fruits and creamy frosting.
- Egg: Acts as a binding agent, contributing to the structure and texture of the cookie crust.
- Vanilla Extract: Adds a warm flavor to both the cookie crust and the cream cheese frosting, enhancing the overall taste.
- All-Purpose Flour: Forms the base of the cookie crust, providing structure and a chewy texture.
- Baking Powder: A leavening agent that helps the cookie crust rise slightly, resulting in a softer texture.
- Salt: Enhances the overall flavor profile by balancing the sweetness and providing a subtle savory element.
- Cream Cheese: Softened cream cheese creates a luxurious and smooth frosting with a rich, tangy flavor.
- Greek Yogurt: Nonfat or 2% Greek yogurt adds a light and creamy texture to the frosting, enhancing its consistency.
- Powdered Sugar: Sweetens and thickens the frosting, providing a silky sweetness.
- Fresh Strawberries, Kiwi, Blueberries, Peaches, Raspberries: A colorful assortment of fresh fruits not only adds visual appeal but contributes a variety of natural flavors, creating a balanced and delightful eating experience.
Popular substitutions & additions
- Cookie crust variations: Swap out the all-purpose flour with whole wheat flour for a slightly nuttier flavor. Try a gluten free almond flour for you or friends with gluten intolerance.
- Frosting tweaks: Add a touch of tang and extra creaminess, replace the cream cheese with mascarpone cheese
- Crunchy toppings: Sprinkle the top with toasted coconut, chopped pecans or walnuts. Even simple chopped peanuts will add a delicious crunchy bite.
- Syrups & Drizzles: Drizzle your fruit pizza with chocolate drizzle, caramel, or even maple syrup for another layer of fun!
How to make fruit pizza
There are loads of these fruit pizza ideas all over Pinterest. I used the cookie crust recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction, and then made a healthier frosting by combining cream cheese and Greek yogurt. You could also use a buttercream frosting or whipped cream instead. Here are the easy-to-follow steps to make a cookie crust fruit pizza dessert.
Make the cookie crust
To make the cookie crust for the fruit pizza, you’ll need the usual cookie ingredients, including flour, sugar, butter and an egg, along with baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract and salt. It’s best to have the egg and butter at room temperature before you get started.
When you mix everything together in the mixer, allow it to chill in the fridge for half hour before baking it in the oven. And when you bake it, I recommend under-baking it by 2 minutes so that the cookie crust is ultra soft for the fruit pizza topping party!
Make the frosting
To make the frosting for the fruit pizza, just whip together cream cheese, Greek yogurt, powdered sugar and vanilla extract. You can leave out the Greek yogurt if you’d like, but it gives it a lighter texture and taste, so I like including it.
Assemble the fruit pizza
To assemble the fruit pizza, spread the frosting all over the cooled sugar cookie crust. When you’re frosting the cookie crust, be sure to leave the edges without frosting. It makes it look neater and it’s easier to slice that way without frosting getting all over the dish.
Next, start layering the fruit however you’d like. You can make a fun symmetrical design, pick a couple fun colors (maybe red, white and blue for July 4th, or green and red for Christmas) or you can just scatter any fruit all over on top of the frosting. This is the fun part for me!
When you’re all done decorating it, you’re ready to serve it. You can also chill it before serving. Some recipes also include a glaze on top made with preserves and water. But for me, it sweetens the fruit pizza too much, so I leave that part out.
“I Just made this beautiful fruit pizza it was amazing I love the suggestion on adding a little baking soda it definitely help the crust be a bit more fluffy. And will definitely be making this again!!” – Liz
Tips for making the best fruit pizza
- Add 1-2 teaspoons of cornstarch to the cookie dough to make it softer. This is not necessary, but it is a little trick I learned for making softer cookies. And it works really well in this fruit pizza base.
- Make sure to chill the dough before spreading it on the pan. Chilling the dough allows the butter to harden, which then keeps it from thinning out and spreading all over the sides of the pan. If you chill the dough, you’ll notice that the cookie dough stays put after baking, but puffs up slightly.
- Grease the baking dish before adding cookie dough. This prevents it from sticking to the pan. You can also use parchment paper, which makes it easy to lift the fruit pizza from the pan and place it on a serving platter for guests.
- Under-bake the sugar cookie crust. About 2 minutes before you think the cookie crust is done, remove it from the oven. It will continue to bake on the pan. But removing it earlier from the oven creates an extra soft crust that won’t harden quickly.
How to store leftover fruit pizza
When you’re ready to store the fruit pizza, it’s best to wrap it tightly in plastic wrap before storing it in the fridge.
How long will fruit pizza last in the fridge?
Once wrapped and ready to store, your fruit pizza will stay at its freshest for 2 to 3 days. The texture of the cookie crust will slightly soften after being exposed to the fridge.
Can I freeze fruit pizza?
You can freeze the cookie dough crust, but I do not recommend freezing it fully assembled is the fruit with become mushy and soggy.
Frequently asked questions
For the best fruit pizza experience, use fresh fruit. There is so much moisture in frozen fruit, that if it hasn’t thawed or drained enough of that moisture, it might start to pool in your fruit pizza.
Yes! You can prepare your cookie dough crust into small personalized-sized fruit pizzas, alternativly you can double the recipe to make an extra large fruit pizza. The only thing that may change is the baking time.
Make sure you’ve chilled your cookie dough before shaping your pizza crust. Chilling helps to maintain the structure of the crust. Additionally, avoid overmixing the dough and it might turn out crumbly.
Fruit pizza is such a fun summer recipe! And I haven’t found anyone who doesn’t absolutely love it and get a kick out of how fabulous it looks. It makes for a great dessert to take to a summer barbecue, picnic or potluck. And you can customize it with any type of fruits that you like and have fun decorating it.
More summer fruit desserts/fruit salads:
- Summer Fruit Salad
- Watermelon Blueberry Salad
- Grilled Fruit Kabobs
- Watermelon Cucumber Salad
- Watermelon Pizza
- Fruit Ice Cubes
If you’ve tried this healthy-ish feel good Fruit Pizza recipe or any other recipe on Feel Good Foodie, then don’t forget to rate the recipe and leave me a comment below! I would love to hear about your experience making it. And if you snapped some shots of it, share it with me on Instagram so I can repost on my stories!
Fruit Pizza
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Ingredients
For the Cookie Crust
- ½ cup butter softened
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour spoon and level
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
For the Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- ½ cup Greek Yogurt nonfat or 2%
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For Assembly
- Strawberries
- Kiwi
- Blueberries
- Peaches
- Raspberries
Instructions
- In a large bowl using a hand-held mixer or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter. Then add sugar until mixture is fluffy, and finally beat in the egg and vanilla extract. Beat the flour, baking powder and salt into the wet ingredients until combined. Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease a 12-inch pizza. Press the chilled cookie dough onto the pizza pan until it's even and circular. Bake 18-20 minutes or until the edges are very lightly browned. Allow crust to cool.
- In a medium bowl using a hand-held mixer or stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, combine the cream cheese, Greek yogurt, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth and creamy. Spread over the cooled cookie crust, and chill again to firm up the frosting.
- Decorate with fruit, cut into slices and serve.
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Notes
- If you prefer not to use Greek yogurt, you can leave it out. You can add more cream cheese, but it’s not even necessary.
- I haven’t tried the cookie crust with any other ingredients, but feel free to switch to another cookie dough recipe that you love and trust.
- To make this gluten-free, use an all-purpose gluten-free flour mix. Do not substitute only almond flour or only coconut flour.
Nutrition
Nutrition information provided is an estimate. It will vary based on cooking method and specific ingredients used.
I do not like greek yougurt. In this recipe it is amazing. I think it compliments the fruit so well! Used the Pillsbury ready made dough but will try the recipe next time.
Aww, so glad you loved it! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for this amazing recipe!!! 🙂
So glad you liked it!
Really good dessert! I made it yesterday and my whole family liked it. I put the leftovers in the refrigerator overnight and I had a bit for breakfast this morning and it honestly tastes even better than it did yesterday! Highly recommend making it
Yay! So glad to hear that!! Thank you!
I Just made this beautiful fruit pizza it was amazing I love the suggestion on adding a little baking soda it definitely help the crust be a bit more fluffy. And will definitely be making this again!!
Hi Liz – I’m so glad that you enjoyed the fruit pizza and found that baking soda suggestion helpful! Thanks so much for sharing!
Love it. Fun to make
If you can tell me how to make a flourless, sugarless dough for this recipe, I’d like to hear about it!
Sorry I don’t have any that are sugarless since it’s a sugar cookie crust. But if you find another cookie crust you like, it should work well in this recipe as the base.