COLORFUL FRUIT PIZZA! If there’s ever a time when you eat with your eyes first, it’s with this colorful fruit dessert pizza. A soft and chewy sugar cookie base with just the right amount of sweetness, so it’s not cloyingly sweet by the time you top it with frosting. The cream cheese frosting has a hint of lemon juice that cuts through some of that sweetness and pairs beautifully with your favorite fruit. It’s also a fun project for the summer to make with kiddos. They can decorate the whole pizza or even just their own slices! Fruit pizza is 10x better when you make it with a homemade sugar cookie crust, and other than a quick 10 minutes to cool the crust down, there’s really no waiting around. Usually, you see fruit pizza recipes call for store-bought sugar cookie dough. I’ve made it simple enough to make the crust at home with mostly pantry staple ingredients. A fruit pizza is the perfect cooling treat for the summertime. Especially for Father’s Day or the 4th of July! We sometimes make this on pizza night for dessert!
Ingredients to make a fruit pizza at home:
Softened butter: we’re using butter in both the cookie dough as well as the cream cheese frosting. It’s crucial for a sugar cookie recipe that the butter be softened to room temperature. I also prefer to use salted butter so that we can skip the salt altogether. If you have unsalted butter on hand, add ¼ teaspoon of kosher salt to the cookie dough.Granulated sugar: the sugar gives the cookies a slight crispness to the edges. I use a 1:1 ratio of softened butter and granulated sugar for my sugar cookie fruit pizza base.An egg: the egg adds structure and stability to the baked goodsExtracts: I use both vanilla and almond extract for this recipe. I know that almond extract isn’t something that everyone loves, so you’re welcome to omit it if you’d like. But this is my favorite extract, and it’s made with almond oil instead of an artificial almond flavor, and it makes this and my sugar cookies taste delicious.All-purpose flour: a pretty standard ingredient for cookie baking.Baking powder: aids in giving the cookie crust the tiniest rise so that it’s soft and chewy in the middle and not hard like a cracker.Lemon juice: my secret frosting ingredient that gives it the BEST flavor. I use it in my 1-hour cinnamon rolls, my spice cake, and my overnight breakfast bake too. Cream cheese: softened cream cheese is the base of the frosting.Powdered Sugar: powdered sugar is added to the cream cheese frosting for sweetness.Fresh fruit: You can use anything from fresh berries (make a flag fruit pizza for the 4th of July!) to mandarin orange slices, mangoes, kiwis, grapes, and even apples or bananas!
Let’s make the best fruit pizza:
Tips for making fruit pizza:
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Cookie Doneness: 11-12 minutes yields a softer, underbaked sugar cookie crust while baking for 13-15 mins will yield a golden cookie with more of a snap. We prefer it slightly underbaked!
