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 time. However as soon as Stephie and I began speaking about it a couple of months in the past, I couldn’t cease desirous 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 could be on the high. However actually, it’s superb any time of 12 months!

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

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

What’s fruit pizza?

For those who in some way made it by way of your folks’ 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 important summer time dessert. However you may completely make it any time of 12 months by altering up the fruit you employ primarily based on season.

You may even theme the fruit you employ primarily based on the event! Use a mix 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 finest!

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

Methods to make my fruit pizza

For those who love making my chocolate chip cookie cake or sugar cookie bars, this recipe is simply as easy to make.

Elements you’ll want

Fruit pizza begins with an enormous chewy sugar cookie base. For the cookie crust, you have to:

• 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

Make certain the butter is softened to room temperature earlier than you begin baking. For those who overlook to set it out forward of time, try my suggestions for how you can soften butter rapidly.

You’ll additionally wish to be sure you know how you can measure flour appropriately. Getting this step proper will assist your cookie crust to return out good each time. 

The cream of tartar creates a softer and chewier sugar cookie crust layer. You’ll be accustomed to this ingredient in the event you’ve made snickerdoodle cookies.

For those who should not have cream of tartar, or select to not use it, please notice that the crust texture could also be barely crunchier.

Subsequent up is the filling, which is predicated 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 publish on how you can soften cream cheese for some tips about this.

For those who’re out of powdered sugar, don’t panic. You can also make a easy powdered sugar substitute to make use of on this recipe.

For the topping, you have to 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, reminiscent of blueberries, could be left entire. Medium-sized fruits, reminiscent of grapes, cherries, and blackberries, could 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 gentle and fluffy. This can take a minimum of 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 components to the moist components till simply mixed. The dough will probably be sticky.

Press the cookie dough into a ten×15-inch jelly roll pan. In case your pan is nonstick, you may skip greasing it. If it isn’t, 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 gentle golden and set. Let the crust cool utterly; the middle might 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 clean. Use a spatula to fold within the marshmallow fluff, then the vanilla and whipped topping.

Unfold the topping over the crust. You may add as a lot or as little as you want—the remainder can be utilized as a fruit dip in the event you don’t wish to add all of it to the pizza.

Cowl and refrigerate the pizza for a minimum of 2 hours. Organize the recent fruit on high of the pizza simply earlier than serving.

Make-ahead suggestions

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

• Make the sugar cookie base. Cool utterly, then wrap your complete 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.

Incessantly requested questions