Fruit Pizza Cookies

Summer is officially here… and that means fruit pizza is in full swing! I don’t know why I haven’t blogged this recipe on here before today, because fruit pizza is my childhood favorite. The fresh fruit over a cream cheese frosting and a soft cookie crust suddenly becomes the perfect combination when you bite into it.

My girls and I made this recipe this past weekend and it was so fun.

And in case anyone wants a timeline of what baking looks like in my house, here you go…

It usually starts about a week out when I come up with an idea to bake something and start talking about it with my daughters and get them excited to bake it. Then, I realize I don’t have a lot of the ingredients, so we have to wait until we get the ingredients at the store. Then, we have to wait until the perfect day when George is napping and we are all home during the late morning, which is usually about a week or so after the initial idea. That is when finally comes the day we bake the item we have just talked about for a week. It’s well worth the wait!

We did this fruit pizza using a homemade sugar cookie, but you could also just use a store-bought sugar cookie dough!!! Trust me, both are delicious and I am all about easy. You can make this on a pizza pan as one big pizza, or as individual cookies pictured here!

Fruit Pizza Cookies

Homemade Sugar Cookie Base

  • 2 3/4 cups flour

  • 1 tsp. baking soda

  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder

  • 1 cup softened unsalted butter

  • 1 1/2 cup white sugar

  • 1 egg

  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract

  • 4 tablespoons milk

Instructions:

  1. Whisk the dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.

  2. In a mixer, cream the butter and sugar until combined. Add in the egg and vanilla and milk. Slowly add in the flour mixture and mix until combine.

  3. To make a pizza: press on a pizza pan sprayed with nonstick spray or lined with parchment paper and bake at 375 for about 15-18 minutes (keep checking on it after 15 minutes), and remove when the edges are golden brown and the middle appears done. You may have some dough left over, so just make some cookies with it. To make cookies: Scoop tablespoon sized dough balls on a cookie sheet and bake at 375 for about 9-10 minutes or until edges are just turning golden slightly.

  4. Take out and let cool before topping with the frosting and fresh fruit, recipe below!...

Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 8 oz block-style cream cheese, softened (I use full-fat)

  • 3 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

  • 1 and 1/4 cups powdered sugar

  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

  • Fresh fruit to decorate (I use strawberries, sliced, and blueberries)

Instructions:

  1. Beat the cream cheese frosting ingredients in a mixer until light and fluffy and all creamed together.

  2. Spread on the cooled pizza or individual cookies.

  3. Decorate with fresh fruit (I used sliced strawberries and blueberries)

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