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.
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.
Instead of sugar with the cream cheese on the second layer, it’s REALLY good if you use equal parts of marshmallow creme!
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!
This looks really yummy! Plus its really easy to make. Thanks for sharing.
Looks soooo yummy!! I made one last week, and of course, they never last long because they are so delicious!
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!
ooohhh yummy!!!!
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.
This looks to pretty to eat! I love fruit pizzas, and they’re so easy to make too!
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!
Yum! That looks awesome! Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
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.
May I just say YUM
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!
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!
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
This is a new idea to me. I am intrigued with the cookie dough crust!
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.
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.
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!
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!
my kids would love this!
your blog is darling.
cristin