We love our fresh fruit! While we’re all quite content to eat it as is, I enjoy gathering a rainbow of colors for this fun dessert when summertime ushers in reasonable fruit prices.
photo found at allrecipes.com
Fruit Pizza
Bottom Layer
- your favorite sugar cookie dough (we use homemade)
Second Layer
- 8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 c. sugar
Third Layer
- colorful, fresh fruit: your choice of strawberries, blueberries, kiwi, peaches, pineapple, bananas, red and green grapes, or any of your other favorites
Top Layer
- 1/4 c. pineapple juice
- 1 T. lemon juice
- 1 1/2 c. water
- 1/4 c. sugar
- 1/4 c. corn starch
- Press cookie dough into pizza pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes. Watch this! Oven times and temps vary. Allow to cool completely.
- Beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Spread on cooled cookie crust.
- Get creative! Arrange washed, sliced fruit on top of the cream cheese mixture.
- Combine top layer ingredients in sauce pan. Heat, stirring constantly (love my whisk for this!), until thickened. Allow to cool.
- Pour cooled topping over fruit. Spread lightly.
- Top layer recipe is enough for two pizza pans.
- What a fun recipe to make with children. Let them be creative with the fruit arrangement!
- For a bridal or baby shower, make mini-pizzas using regular-sized sugar cookies.
- Go patriotic – make your pizza in a sheet cake pan. Use Blueberries, bananas, and strawberries to create the American Flag.
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I love these things!! I have never made one cause they always looked complicated, but this doesn’t look so bad. Might have to try it.
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I enjoyed reading your blog tonight….Love it when I have time to do blog hopping…I always enjoy finding new blogs!
This month I am posting on our Disney trip.
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Instead of sugar with the cream cheese on the second layer, it’s REALLY good if you use equal parts of marshmallow creme!
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This is a favorite dessert of mine and I don’t make it near enough! Thanks for this little reminder – it’s going on the menu soon!
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This looks really yummy! Plus its really easy to make. Thanks for sharing.
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Looks soooo yummy!! I made one last week, and of course, they never last long because they are so delicious!
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I LOVE making this – though I haven’t tried your third layer. The first two are good enough to make me want to eat most of a pizza . . . and I don’t think the fruit justifies that! Man, I need to work on my willpower . . . yum, though!
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ooohhh yummy!!!!
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My kids were asking for this just the other day. Note to self: Buy ingredients.
Thanks for the reminder. Love your place here. Will subscribe to your feed.
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This looks to pretty to eat! I love fruit pizzas, and they’re so easy to make too!
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I think I’ve had that, or at least a version of it bought from the grocery store! SOOOOOOOO good, its like eating slices of Heaven!
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Yum! That looks awesome! Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
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This is a really neat recipe! I am definitely going to try this with my boys this summer. This would make for a very fun, and yummy, treat for them. Thank you so much for posting the recipe to this. I am bookmarking it now and plan on making it in the coming week.
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May I just say YUM
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I must have lived a very sheltered life; I’m not sure I’ve come across fruit pizza before. What a fun way to serve it and it looks so yummy!
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That looks amazing!!! And I NEVER cook I mean literally never! But I’m taking down this recipe!! I think this is the thing I need to motivate me!! It looks soo good!
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OOOH thanks so much for reminding me. I have tried this and it looks AND tastes fantastic.
I will be adding it to my “to do list” this week.
TTFN~~Claudia
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This is a new idea to me. I am intrigued with the cookie dough crust!
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Thanks for the great idea: I think these will be a perfect treat at a bridal shower that I will be arranging soon.
All the girls will swoon over these fruit pizzas.
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We love making fruit pizzas here. We haven’t made them in a long time…and I have a ton of fruit to use- I think this will be the perfect way to use them! Thanks for the reminder.
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This sounds sooo good right now! I haven’t had a fruit pizza in years. I remember a friend of mine made one when we were visiting her and it was delicious. I should try making it. Yum!
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We make a similar recipe and it’s delicious! Instead of pineapple and lemon juice, we just use orange juice.
Seeing the picture makes me want to make it now! YUM!
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my kids would love this!
your blog is darling.
cristin
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