Fruit Pizza – My Baking Dependancy

A sugar-cookie crust, cream cheese topping, and recent fruit make this fruit pizza a enjoyable and scrumptious dessert to make for any event.

I hadn’t thought of fruit pizza in years earlier than this summer season. However as soon as Stephie and I began speaking about it just a few months in the past, I couldn’t cease serious about it. 

I imply, what’s higher than an enormous ol’ sugar cookie paired with a cream-cheese topping and recent fruit?

If I needed to make an inventory of Finest Summer season Desserts, this might be on the high. However actually, it’s superb any time of yr!

And since it may be lower into huge or small items, you possibly can actually feed a crowd with this one. 

Don’t let summer season wrap up with out making this fruit pizza. Belief me, you’re gonna find it irresistible!

What’s fruit pizza?

In the event you in some way made it by your pals’ highschool commencement events with out having fruit pizza, lemme fill you in on this fan favourite.

Fruit pizza has a thick and chewy sugar-cookie crust that will get topped with a tangy cream cheese combination. The entire thing will get completed with sliced recent fruit earlier than slicing and serving it.

Because it options recent fruit and is served chilly, it’s an incredible summer season dessert. However you possibly can completely make it any time of yr by altering up the fruit you employ based mostly on season.

You’ll be able to even theme the fruit you employ based mostly on the event! Use a combination of strawberries and blueberries for July 4th or Memorial Day. Use a rainbow of fruit for birthdays or Pleasure celebrations. Or just use no matter fruit you want greatest!

My family and friends completely rave about this recipe, and I really feel assured yours will too.

Learn how to make my fruit pizza

In the event you love making my chocolate chip cookie cake or sugar cookie bars, this recipe is simply as easy to make.

Substances you’ll want

Fruit pizza begins with an enormous chewy sugar cookie base. For the cookie crust, you’ll need:

• 1 cup room-temperature unsalted butter 
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 2 giant eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Ensure that the butter is softened to room temperature earlier than you begin baking. In the event you neglect to set it out forward of time, try my ideas for the best way to soften butter shortly.

You’ll additionally wish to be sure to know the best way to measure flour accurately. Getting this step proper will assist your cookie crust to return out excellent each time. 

The cream of tartar creates a softer and chewier sugar cookie crust layer. You’ll be accustomed to this ingredient for those who’ve made snickerdoodle cookies.

In the event you wouldn’t have cream of tartar, or select to not use it, please word that the crust texture could also be barely crunchier.

Subsequent up is the filling, which relies on my cream cheese fruit dip. You’ll want:

• 8 ounces room-temperature cream cheese
• ⅓ cup powdered sugar
• 1 (7-ounce) container marshmallow fluff
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4 ounces thawed whipped topping (Cool Whip or TruWhip)

For the smoothest filling, the cream cheese must be at room temperature. Take a look at my put up on the best way to soften cream cheese for some recommendations on this.

In the event you’re out of powdered sugar, don’t panic. You may make a easy powdered sugar substitute to make use of on this recipe.

For the topping, you’ll need about 3 cups of recent sliced fruit. A few of my favourite fruits to make use of embody:

• Berries (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries)
• Candy cherries
• Kiwi
• Pineapple
• Peaches
• Nectarines
• Grapes

Small fruits, resembling blueberries, might be left entire. Medium-sized fruits, resembling grapes, cherries, and blackberries, might be halved. Slice bigger fruits into bite-size items.

Making this recipe

To make the cookie crust, begin by creaming the butter and sugar collectively with a mixer till mild and fluffy. This can take no less than 3 minutes.

Add the eggs and the vanilla; combine for 1 extra minute, till effectively mixed.

In a separate mixing bowl, whisk collectively the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add the dry substances to the moist substances till simply mixed. The dough can be sticky.

Press the cookie dough into a ten×15-inch jelly roll pan. In case your pan is nonstick, you possibly can skip greasing it. If it’s not, I like to recommend lining it with a layer of parchment paper earlier than including the cookie dough.

Bake the crust at 350°F for about Quarter-hour, or till mild golden and set. Let the crust cool fully; the middle could deflate because it cools. 

As soon as the crust has cooled, make the filling by beating the cream cheese and powdered sugar with a mixer till easy. Use a spatula to fold within the marshmallow fluff, then the vanilla and whipped topping.

Unfold the topping over the crust. You’ll be able to add as a lot or as little as you want—the remaining can be utilized as a fruit dip for those who don’t wish to add all of it to the pizza.

Cowl and refrigerate the pizza for no less than 2 hours. Prepare the recent fruit on high of the pizza simply earlier than serving.

Make-ahead ideas

If you wish to prep the elements of the recipe forward of time, here’s what I recommend:

• Make the sugar cookie base. Cool fully, then wrap the whole pan in plastic wrap. Retailer at room temperature for 2-3 days, or add a layer of foil and freeze for as much as 1 month.
• Make the cream cheese filling 2-3 days forward of time. Retailer it in an hermetic container till you’re prepared to make use of it. Let it come to room temperature earlier than including it to the crust.
• Slice the fruit as much as 12 hours forward of time. Retailer in an hermetic container within the fridge till prepared to make use of.

Continuously requested questions