Fruit pizza is a fun and vibrant dessert that’s like a giant sugar cookie topped with a smooth cream cheese frosting and loaded with fresh, colorful fruit. It's the perfect sweet treat for Spring and Summer gatherings and parties!
Fruit pizza is the only pizza you need this summer!
Who needs regular pizza when you can have a dessert pizza topped with all your favorite fruits? Meet your new go-to Summer treat—guaranteed to wow even the pickiest eaters! It's like a giant, sweet, fruit salad on a cookie crust—basically a party on a plate! I love making this fruit pizza (along with a reader-favorite raspberry lemon cake and my strawberry muffins) for Easter and Summer parties. You can get really creative with the toppings and make your own edible masterpiece! Classic options include sliced strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. For a tropical twist, I love adding mango, pineapple, and mandarin oranges. And for a wow factor, top it off with sliced grapes, pomegranate arils, star fruit, or even dragon fruit.
The Ingredients for Fruit Pizza
For a soft sugar cookie crust, you'll need butter, granulated and brown sugar, an egg, vanilla extract, milk, flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix everything to form a dough, roll it out onto a pizza pan, and bake until golden brown. Once cooled, it creates the perfect base for a creamy, tangy topping.
For the topping, you'll need cream cheese, Greek yogurt, vanilla extract, and powdered sugar, which you'll cream together until smooth and fluffy. Then comes the fun part—decorating! I used sliced kiwi, strawberries, mandarin oranges, blueberries, grapes, and pineapple chunks, arranging them in a colorful pattern over the rich, tangy topping. The photo below depicts every single ingredient you need, take a screenshot and go shopping:
How To Make Fruit Pizza
I start by making a simple sugar cookie dough, creaming butter and sugars before mixing in eggs, vanilla, and milk.
After adding the dry ingredients, I roll out the dough onto a pizza pan and bake until golden brown. While the crust cools, I whip up a luscious cream cheese topping by blending cream cheese, Greek yogurt, vanilla, and powdered sugar until smooth and fluffy.
Once the cookie crust has cooled completely, I spread the creamy topping evenly, leaving a small border around the edges. Then comes the fun part—arranging fresh fruit! I love using a mix of sliced kiwi, strawberries, mandarin oranges, blueberries, pineapple, and grapes to create a beautiful, colorful pattern. After decorating, I slice it like a traditional pizza and serve.
Tips for Success
- Line a pizza pan with parchment paper before rolling out the cookie dough on a pan.
- To help prevent the dough from sticking to the rolling pin, you can place another piece of parchment paper over the dough.
- The cookie dough should be about a ½- ¼ thick when rolled out on the pizza pan.
- You can place the cooked cookie dough in the freezer if you need it to cool quickly after baking.
Substitutions & Variations
You'll love experimenting with different fruits and berries to make fresh and brand new fruit pizza variations each time you make this recipe!
- Swap strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, and grapes for cherries, figs, or cranberries.
- For a tropical twist, use mango, pineapple, bananas, or mandarin oranges, or try passion fruit, papaya, or lychee.
- Instead of traditional cream cheese frosting, use Greek yogurt, mascarpone, or whipped coconut cream.
- For the crust, replace sugar cookie dough with a graham cracker crust, puff pastry, or even a brownie base for a chocolatey spin.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is fruit pizza? Fruit pizza is a fun dessert or snack, made with a sugar cookie crust, cream cheese topping, and assorted fruits, it is made to be the dessert version of savory pizzas.
- What supplies will I need to complete this recipe? You will need a stand mixer, a pizza pan, and a medium mixing bowl.
- How should I store the fruit pizza? Store leftover fruit pizza in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
- Can I make this ahead of time? While I do not recommend making the whole fruit pizza ahead of time, you can make the cookie dough crust and cream cheese topping ahead of time and assemble the pizza at a later date, just store the ingredients and components in the refrigerator.
Other Fruity Summer Desserts
- Blueberry Peach Greek Yogurt Cake
- No-Bake Ricotta Cheesecake (topped with fresh berries!)
- Raspberry Brownies
- Peach and Blueberry Crisp
- Strawberry Blueberry Cake
Fruit Pizza
Ingredients
For Sugar Cookie Crust:
- ½ cup butter softened
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¼ cup milk
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
For Cream Cheese Topping:
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups powdered sugar
For Fruit Topping:
- 3 kiwi fruit sliced
- ½ cup strawberries sliced
- ½ cup mandarin orange slices
- ½ cup blueberries
- ¼ cup pineapple chunks
- ½ cup grapes sliced in half
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a pizza pan with parchment paper.
- Using a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter and sugars, once combined, add in the egg, vanilla extract, and milk, stir until evenly combined.
- In a separate medium mixing bowl, use a fork to combine the flour, salt, and baking powder until all the ingredients are evenly distributed.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the mixer with the butter and sugar until a dough forms.
- Shape the dough into a ball and transfer it from the mixing bowl to the lined pizza pan. Use a rolling pin to roll the dough out to fit the pan, making sure that the dough reaches the edges and there are no gaps.
- Bake the cookie dough in the pizza pan at 350 F for 10-15 minutes until it is a light golden-brown. Once it is done baking, let it sit to cool.
- While the cookie dough is cooling, make the cream cheese topping. First cream the cream cheese in the mixer until it is fluffy, then add in the vanilla extract and Greek yogurt, mix until combined.
- With the mixer on low, slowly add the powdered sugar to the cream cheese mixture, ½ cup at a time. Once all the powdered sugar is combined, turn the mixer up to medium/high to cream the mixture until it is fluffy.
- Once the cookie crust is cooled, use a spoon or spatula to spread the cream cheese topping over the cookie, leaving ¼ inch crust.
- Decorate the frosted cookie crust with the assorted fruits in a spiral, ring pattern, until the whole pizza is covered with fruit. (I provide helpful step-by-step photos above the recipe card)
- Use a pizza cutter to slice the fruit pizza and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition Disclaimer:
The nutritional information on this website is only an estimate and is provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed. It should not be used as a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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