Easy and colorful fruit pizza is simple to make and always a hit! It’s the best summer dessert with a soft sugar cookie crust, thick cream cheese frosting and fresh fruit!
I make this dessert recipe all season long! It’s my go-to when I need a recipe to bring to a BBQ or am in need of a 4th of July dessert.
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Easy Fruit Pizza
Fruit pizza, aka fruit cookie pizza, my all-time favorite fruit dessert. The buttery sugar cookie crust topped with tangy cream cheese frosting and fresh fruit is perfection. It’s tastes likes a mix between a fruit tart and a sugar cookie bar and is so, so delicious!
While I love a warm chocolate chip cookie pizza, I have to say that fruit pizza is my absolute favorite. Add your fruits and designs, use homemade dough or pre-made and it’s the perfect dessert for long summer days!
Fruit Pizza Recipe Ingredients
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Sure cookie dough: I used easy premade Pillsbury sugar cookie dough, but any store bought dough works. If you prefer from scratch, try my homemade sugar cookie recipe or a graham cracker crust.
- Frosting: Softened cream cheese, Cool Whip, vanilla extract and granulated sugar.
- Fresh fruit: For the best fruit pizza, I used a combination of berries including strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, mandarin oranges, kiwi and pineapple.
Favorite Fruits for Topping
You can use any type of fruit for this recipe! Drain canned fruit fully in a strainer and pat dry with a paper towel to avoid a soggy crust. If using fruits that brown quickly, such as apples or bananas, toss them with lemon juice.
- Strawberries
- Kiwi
- Mandarin oranges
- Raspberries
- Blueberries
- Blackberries
- Bananas
- Mangoes
- Grapes
- Pineapple
- Peaches or peach pie filling
How to Make Fruit Pizza
Slice or drain fruit and set on paper towels to absorb excess juices. In a large mixer bowl, whip together the softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Fold in Cool Whip then chill.
Press the sugar cookie dough into the pizza pan. Pierce dough a couple times with a fork then bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes, until edges are lightly golden. Cool sugar cookie crust completely.
Using a rubber spatula, spread an even layer of your chilled frosting over the cooled sugar cookie base. Top with fresh fruit!
Decorating Variations
- If you’re looking for a festive Memorial Day or Independence Day dessert, turn this dessert into a patriotic 4th of July fruit pizza!
- For brunch, make a sunrise design by using fresh oranges, strawberries and pineapple. Finish it off with some lemon zest for a refreshing taste.
- Shape into an oval shape for an Easter egg or make a rainbow shape.
- Can also be turned into individual fruit pizza cookies or bars.
Expert Tips
- Tropical: Try adding toasted coconut for a taste of the tropics.
- Fruit pizza glaze: Drizzle with a yummy fruit glaze or honey for extra sweetness.
- Frosting: Try one of my flavored cream cheese frostings, like strawberry cream cheese frosting or lemon cream cheese frosting.
- Double the recipe: When serving a crowd, double the recipe and bake in the shape of a rectangle on a sheet pan.
- Make-ahead: Bake the crust and prepare frosting. Wrap crust in plastic wrap to keep fresh. Store frosting in a container in the fridge. When ready to assemble, spread frosting and add fruit.
- Storage: Store pizza with fruit covered with plastic wrap in the refrigerator for up to two days. After the first day, crust will start to get a little soggy.
Other fresh fruit recipes we love to make include this rainbow fruit platter, fruit kabobs and during the spring this fruit tray for Easter.
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Fruit Pizza Recipe
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Ingredients
- 4 ounces cream cheese , softened
- 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 ounces Cool Whip , softened
- 1 (1-pound) package premade Pillsbury sugar cookie dough , can also use homemade cookie dough
- 1 (15-ounce) can mandarin oranges
- 2 kiwis
- 1 pound strawberries
- 1 pint raspberries
- ½ pint blueberries
- 1 (15-ounce) can pineapple , or use freshly cut pineapple
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and lightly grease a round glass pizza pan.
- In a large bowl, whip together the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Fold in Cool Whip. Chill until ready to use.
- Press the dough into the pan, about 1/8 inch thick. Pierce several times with a fork.
- Bake 10 to 15 minutes, or until edges are lightly golden. Let cool completely.
- While the cookie is cooling, drain the fruit and set on paper towels to absorb excess juices.
- Using a rubber spatula, spread an even layer of frosting over the cooled cookie dough crust. Arrange fruit in fun patterns. Keep chilled until ready to serve.
Notes
- Try adding toasted coconut for a tropical feel.
- Add food coloring to the frosting to make it the desired color you want.
- Drizzle with a yummy fruit glaze or honey for extra sweetness.
- For a thicker frosting that’s more rich, omit the cool whip and make classic cream cheese frosting.
- Can also be turned into individual fruit pizza cookies or bars.
- Preheat oven to 350°F and spray a 9×13- or 15-inch rimmed baking sheet with nonstick spray.
- Press cookie dough into baking sheet, then pierce a couple times with a fork.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, until edges are lightly golden. Let cool.
- Spread frosting on top and decorate with blueberries for the stars and strawberries for the stripes.
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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FAQs
That beautiful thing about dessert pizza is that you can customize it with your favorite fruits and really nothing is off-limits. Keep in mind that fruits like apples, bananas and pears will brown quickly. Also, fruits with a thick skin such as peaches you might want to peel first.
While it is best to serve within 24 hours of assembling it can be tightly covered and stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. The sugar cookie crust will begin to soften and the fruit won’t be as fresh, but it will still taste good.
It will only get soggy as it sits. I recommended serving this recipe after assembling it to avoid any risk of sogginess.
Categorized as: 4th of July, American, Desserts, Fruit Desserts, Kid-Friendly
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
One of my kids favorites! We make it often.
Love to hear that!
I made this with graham cracker crust and no bake cheesecake filling add the fruits in pattern served with drizzling chocolate and whipped cream on side .Everyone at our covered dish loved it .
Sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing!
Loved it!!
I have made this several times for bringing to a party everyone raves about this looks and taste great!
I love making fruit pizza in the summer!! Saving to make for the kiddos soon :)
Fruit pizza is such a fun idea! My girls love to make this. Thanks!
Everyone always enjoys when I serve this fruit pizza! This recipe is a real winner!
This was so yummy! Can you use this frosting on cakes as well?
You probably could! I prefer my buttercream recipe on cakes: https://www.iheartnaptime.net/buttercream-frosting-recipe/
There is one constant at our gathering, Fruit Pizza!!
Loved this fruit pizza!
This sounds delicious! My kids eat a lot of fruit and this would be a fun way to serve it!
I am sure my husband will love this fruit pizza! So fresh and delicious!
That fruit looks so yummy! <3 :*
One of my very favorite treats! This recipe reminds me how much a love fruit pizza!
What if you don’t have a glass pizza pan, Can I use a normal one?
I hope so because this looks soooo good.
Yes, as long as it doesn’t have holes in it. You can also use a 9×13″ pan.
SO good! Fruit pizzas are one of my favorite recipes to make during the summer!
Wow!!
The pic you have put up there makes me want to grab it and have a bite right now!
Sounds good too, and a great way of getting kids to eat more fruits.
Cant wait trying it out this evening. :P
Thanks for the innovative recipe and wonderful share. :D
Keep up the good work.
:)
This does sound yummy. I’ve seen these before but didn’t recall that they’d were on sugar cookies. Your recipe is so easy I may have to whip one up today. Plus by using lighter cream cheese and cool whip you can reduce some of the calories. I’m not sure it would be as satisfying but it could be done. Thanks for sharing this in your weekend update.