Best Fruit Pizza Recipe

This Easy Fruit Pizza starts with a sugar cookie crust that is spread with sweetened cream cheese and beautifully topped with your favorite fresh fruit.  It’s light, colorful, super simple and makes for a fun dessert to bring to your next backyard BBQ or birthday party.

You can create all kinds of fruit pizza designs that look especially beautiful when the fruit is covered in glaze. To make a glazed fruit pizza, just combine a clear jelly such as apricot with a couple tablespoons of water. Mix well and brush onto the fruit.

Easy Fruit Pizza with a Sugar Cookie Crust

Despite how simple it is, this Easy Fruit Pizza recipe always seems to impress.  This is the perfect recipe if you’re looking for something a little different to bring to your next summer get-together.  There’s something about a giant cookie that’s been slathered in cream cheese and loaded with fresh fruit that everyone seems to love!  

Much of this can be made ahead of time, and then decorated just before heading out the door.  If you have small children (and don’t mind if it doesn’t look perfect) they will love helping arrange all of the fruit on top.  

It would also be amazing served alongside this Fruit Board for a bridal shower, baby shower or a holiday party. And if you love dessert pizza, be sure to try our Nutella Strawberry Pizza Recipe and our Oreo Dessert Pizza.

Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza Ingredients

• Butter – this should be unsalted, room temperature butter.
• Sugar – any brand of regular granulated sugar will work.
• Eggs – use your favorite type of large eggs.  It’s best to pull these out a bit before making your dough, if you think of it, so that they aren’t so cold that they “shock” the butter mixture.
• Vanilla Extract – you’ll need this for both the cookie dough and the frosting.
• Dry Ingredients – for the sugar cookie base you’ll need all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda and cream of tartar.
• Cream Cheese – this should be at room temperature so that it will mix well with the powdered sugar and vanilla.
• Powdered Sugar – if you notice your powdered sugar has a lot of lumps, sift it through a fine-mesh strainer.
• Fruit – it’s a good idea to cut your fruit into bite-size pieces so that it will be easier to eat and to cut.

How to Make Fruit Pizza

Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza Crust

1. In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the room temperature butter for about a minute on medium speed.  When it is smooth,  add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy, or about 3 minutes.
2. Slowly add in the egg and vanilla extract and mix again until smooth. Scrape down the sides of the bowls with a rubber spatula as needed. 
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar.  Add to the butter mixture and mix on low until well combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
4. Cover your cookie dough and chill for 1 hour or overnight.   This is important!  Without doing this, your cookie dough may spread and spill over the sides of the pan.
5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 
6. Use butter or cooking spray to grease your pan (to be extra safe you can also line the bottom with parchment paper).  You can use a 9″ round cake pan,  9” x 13″ baking dish, a quarter sheet pan or even a 12-inch pizza pan.  Pat your cookie dough into the bottom of a pan.  It should be about 1/3-1/2″ thick. 
7. Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the edges are slightly golden brown.  Allow the crust to cool completely (at least 20 minutes) before decorating. 

Assembling Your Fruit Pizza

1. While the crust is cooling, wash and cup up your fruit.  
2. In a medium bowl, or using a stand mixer, beat the room temperature cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and vanilla and beat again until light and fluffy, or about 2 minutes.
3. Spread a thick and even layer of cream cheese mixture over the cooled cookie.  
4. Decide on your Fruit Pizza design, then decorate with your favorite fruit.  Cut and serve.  Enjoy! 

Easy Fruit Pizza Variations

• Fruit Pizza cookies: scoop and bake individual cookies instead, then decorate as directed for the larger Fruit Pizza.  
• 4th of July themed Fruit Pizza: decorate your Fruit Pizza using any combination of red and blue fruits (blueberries, strawberries, raspberries).  If you wanted to go crazy you could even bake the cookie base in a rectangular pan and decorate in a flag design.  
• Customized Fruit Pizza Design: customize your design on top to spell out a name, or a number (for a birthday).  Add a little food coloring to your cream cheese frosting and you can really go wild, creating simple characters (like Elmo) for a child’s birthday.  
• Gluten-Free: use your favorite gluten-free cookie dough recipe to easily make this gluten-free!
• Glazed Fruit Pizza: keep your fruit looking fresh for longer!  Make a simple glaze by mixing about 1/2 a cup of any light-colored jelly or fruit preserve with 1-2 tablespoons of water in a small pot (apricot works great).  Warm this up slightly and mix until well-combined, then strain through fine mesh.  Allow to cool, then use a pastry brush to gently brush the top of your Fruit Pizza and make it shine!

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This easy Fruit Pizza with cream cheese and glaze makes the perfect fun, colorful and light dessert to bring to your next backyard BBQ or birthday party.  It has a sugar cookie crust that is spread with sweetened cream cheese and beautifully decorated with your favorite fresh fruit on top.