Fruit Pizza

5 from 3 votes

This Fruit Pizza recipe has the best, fluffy cream cheese frosting and an easy sugar cookie base. You can make fun, beautiful fruit designs into Easter eggs, a patriotic flag for Memorial Day or Canada Day, or any holiday.

Prep Time20

Cook Time12

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Fruit Pizza, Fruit Pizza with Cream Cheese Frosting

Servings:

Author: Jennifer Pallian BSc, RD

Ingredients

For cookie base:

1 ¼ cup flour
¾ cup granulated sugar
¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp kosher salt
3.5 oz unsalted butter room temperature, cut in 1” chunks (7 tbsp)
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract

For cream topping:

⅓ cup whipping cream
1 8-oz brick cream cheese room temperature
⅓ cup granulated sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon juice optional, but nice

To assemble

2 cups mixed fresh fruit sliced, chopped or left whole if small

Instructions

In stand mixer, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Beat on low speed to combine.
Add butter directly to dry ingredients and continue beating on low speed until incorporated, about 2 minutes (mixture will resemble coarse crumbs). Beat in egg and vanilla until a smooth dough forms. Transfer dough to parchment paper and form into a disc. *See notes below for tips.
Chill for 30 minutes. Roll out into a 10” circle and transfer to a large baking sheet. Chill again while you preheat the oven to 350ºF, then bake for about 12 minutes or until golden at edges and the surface appears dry.
Let cool completely. While crust cools, prepare cream topping.
Whip the cream to firm peaks and set aside.
Beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until light, fluffy and shiny (it should be airy like buttercream frosting -- if cream cheese is too cold to whip up smoothly, warm the bowl with a hot, damp towel). It could take several minutes.
Fold in the whipped cream gently to preserve the air bubbles. Spread over cooled crust.*See notes below on how to fold.
At this point, you may top with the fruit or chill the pizza base. Arrange fruit over the filling just before serving.

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Notes

See article for suggestions on kinds of fruit to use (or avoid).

NOTES ON THE DOUGH:

The dough is very sticky at first. Use the parchment paper to form it into a rough disk shape.
Place a second sheet of parchment on top and roll out the dough while it's soft.
Don't worry about rolling it into a perfect circle, you can tidy it up before baking with a pizza cutter or a paring knife, and/or you can trim it to perfection after baking.
Pop the rolled out dough in the freezer while you preheat the oven.

HOW TO FOLD: Fold ingredients together by adding the whipped cream to the cream cheese mixture and using a large spatula to scoop under the mixture and fold it back on top. Repeat, cutting through the middle of the bowl between strokes, until combined.

It's just a gentler way of stirring than going at 'er with a big wooden spoon like a witch at a cauldron, but don't sweat it too much.

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