Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza (2024)

Thissugar cookie fruit pizzafeatures sweet sugar cookies topped withmarshmallow cream cheese icing and fresh fruit for a decadent treat! Mini sugar cookie fruit pizzas are great for a weeknight dessert or party celebration. You get the chewy cookie paired with fresh summer fruits of your choice. Make your fruit pizza with store-bought cookie dough or homemade sugar cookie dough.

Are you heading to a potluck or barbecue and want to “wow” your friends and family? These sweet and easy fruit pizzas are perfection! This is a fantastic birthday party dessert, Memorial Day event, Independence Day, or a treat for little kids to help decorate. The sugar cookie crust is the perfect base for the mini fruit pizza cookies. Adding marshmallow cream to the frosting enhances the flavor and pairs well with the fruit flavors.

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Why You’ll Love Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

• Perfect for entertaining! Whip them up, place them on a serving platter, cover them with plastic wrap, and store them in the fridge until ready to serve.
• Sweet and delicious cookies that have the perfect fruit topping.
• Bright, vibrant fruit in every bite for a refreshing twist to an easy recipe.
• Easy to make and simple ingredients for a fun way to serve up dessert.
• It can be customized with all types of fruit, sprinkles, etc. Pick colorful freshfruit and blend your favorite fruits for a delicious treat.

Ingredients

• Sugar cookie dough– You can buy pre-made sugar cookie dough or make homemade sugar cookies. Feel free to reach for your favorite sugar cookie recipe. You can also purchase roll dough for easy mini pizzas.
• Cream cheese—The cream cheese layer helps to add a tangy flavor to the sweet cookies, balancing out all the flavors. Make sure to reach for softened cream cheese.
• Butter– Real butter is recommended for making the frosting topping the cookies.
• Powdered sugar—If your powdered sugar has clumps, you can sift it to make it extra velvety.
• Marshmallow cream– The marshmallow cream is what makes this pizza dessert a considerable success.
• Heavy cream– It helps thin the frosting to make it perfectly spreadable.
• ​Vanilla– A splash of vanilla brightens up the frosting.
• Fruit of your choice– Do berry toppings, mandarin oranges, strawberries, kiwi, or other fruit types. This is the perfect summer dessert recipe where you can buy juicy berries and fruit in season.

How to Make

1. Bake the cookies according to the packaging directions and let them cool completely.
2. Combine the powdered sugar, whipping cream, cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and marshmallow cream in a stand mixer until smooth and creamy.
3. Chop fruit and ice the cooled cookies with the fruit pizza frosting. Add pieces of fruit as desired and serve. Enjoy!

Variations To Recipe

• For a citrus flavor, add fresh lemon, lime, or orange juice to the frosting or zest the citrus fruit.
• Mix some food coloring into the frosting for different themes and color combinations.
• Choose any fruit you like! Do a red, white, and blue theme for a happy 4th of July, pinks or blues for a baby shower, etc.
• Add 1/2 – 1 teaspoon of almond extract to the icing for a fun flavor!
• Make a large pizza instead of mini pizzas. Just spread out the Pillsbury sugar cookie dough like a large pizza. The cookie will act like a pizza crust.
• Use any shape of cookie cutter o create fun shaped pizzas.
• To lighten it up, use Cool Whip instead of frosting to top the chewy sugar cookie base.
• Top with white chocolate shavings or chocolate chips.

What other kinds of fruit can I add?

• Pineapple
• Pomegranate
• Blackberries
• Apples
• Bananas
• Peaches
• Grapefruit
• Grapes
• Or anything else you like!

Storing

Refrigerate any cookies you do not eat immediately—place them in a sealed container in the fridge. Make sure the cookies are in a single row. They will last for 2-5 days.

You can freeze it, but leave off the fruit. If you add the fruit, it will become soggy once it thaws.

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More Fruit Desserts

• Slow Cooker Hot Fruit Salad
• Cheesecake Stuffed Apples
• Fruit Salad
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