Sugar cookie with fruit and cream cheese

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

2. Make the cookie crust: Combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. Cream together butter and 3/4 cup sugar until smooth in a large bowl. Add in egg and beat well. Stir dry ingredients into the creamed mixture until just blended. Press dough into an ungreased pizza pan.

3. Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool.

4. Prepare the filling: Beat cream cheese with remaining 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Spread evenly over the top of the cooled crust.

5. Arrange blueberries, strawberries, and banana on top of the filling, and chill.

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Tips

You will need 1 to 2 cups of fruit to cover the pie. More if the fruit is smaller like blueberries or raspberries, or less if the fruit is larger like kiwi, mango, peaches, or pineapple. Cut larger fruit, like the strawberries or bananas mentioned, into slices. Customize the fruits however you would like and create any pattern you can imagine.

This simple fruit pizza is beautiful and delicious! A soft sugar cookie crust with a cream cheese frosting and topped with sliced fruit. So simple and oh-so good!

Fruit pizza. Hello, hi, I love you.

This fruit pizza starts with a slightly doughy jumbo sugar cookie, which already seems like it can’t get any better, but buckle up.  It’s about to get WAY wild in here.

The Prettiest Fruit Pizza Ever!

The jumbo sugar cookie is intentionally underbaked so it stays nice and soft and doughy (SAY NO MORE I am here for this).  It’s topped with a cream cheese frosting – repeat: cream cheese frosting – and then it’s decorated with juicy, colorful fruit in a meticulous rainbow pattern.

You guys know I give zero anythings about fancy-looking food. I am an anti-food-decorator. Just put it all in a bowl and give me a fork. That is my motto.

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Breaking My Own Rule

But this might be my one exception. It’s not actually hard at all – you just layer the fruit slices in a pretty pattern, and I swear, people will think you are straight-up Martha Stewart. Including yourself.

And somehow that soft-baked sugar cookie + cream cheese frosting combo does, in fact, taste better when the sliced fruit on top is just a little prettier.

You better be grammin this moment.

This fruit pizza is strangely popular with the guys in my family – like, all of them are obsessed? – and I don’t know if that has to do with the underbaked sugar cookie crust, or the cream cheese frosting layer, or the fact that it has just the right amount of Midwestern retro to it?

Guy/girl, Midwestern, retro or not, doesn’t even matter.

This fruit pizza is just straight guuuud.

Fruit Pizza: FAQs

What does the sugar cookie crust taste like? Is it doughy?

We LOVED that the dough was slightly underbaked, but if that’s not your thing, bake the dough for an additional 3-5 minutes. You can also use a tube of store-bought sugar cookie dough.

How can I make this gluten-free?

You can make the dough gluten-free by using gluten-free flour. A 1:1 sub with Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Flour worked great for me.

How did you get your grapes to lay flat like in the pictures?

Use the top halves of the grapes so they are round and smooth!

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Description

This simple fruit pizza is beautiful and delicious! A soft sugar cookie crust with a cream cheese frosting and topped with sliced fruit. So simple and oh-so good! 

Sugar Cookie Crust:

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 1/4 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 large egg

Cream Cheese Frosting:

• 12 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Fruit Toppings:

• 7–10 strawberries, sliced
• 5–6 kiwis, sliced
• 1 mango, sliced
• 1/2 cup blueberries
• 1 small bunch of grapes, halved

1. Make the Crust: Mix the butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla until well combined. (You can use an electric mixer or just mix with a spoon if your butter is melted.) Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until combined. Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
2. Bake the Crust: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 14-inch pizza pan or round baking stone, or line with parchment. Roll the chilled dough out onto it, leaving some space around the edge. Bake for 12 minutes. Allow it to cool.
3. Make the Cream Cheese Frosting: Using an electric mixer, combine the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth and creamy. Spread over the cooled cookie crust and chill again to firm up the frosting.
4. Make It Fancy: Top with fruit! See post for designs.

• Prep Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 15 mins
• Category: Dessert
• Method: Bake
• Cuisine: American

Keywords: fruit pizza, sugar cookie crust, fresh fruit pizza

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Original Recipe

This fruit pizza was originally published back in 2012, and we’ve updated the recipe and pictures to reflect the new (and improved) recipe. We recommend using this recipe, but if you are looking to make the older version, you can find a printable version here.

Healthy Fruit Pizza

This is a variation on fruit pizza that is made with a raw crust (dates / nuts) and a creamy coconut milk and honey filling. It’s also no-bake fruit pizza which is great in the summer.

Fruit Pizza Designs

Here are four other fruit pizza designs that we made on our team! Super fun to play around with ways to decorate a fruit pizza – the options are endless.

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