Fruit Pizza Cookies (Sugar Cookies)

These fruit pizza cookies are the kind of easy, colorful treat that kids go wild for, and let’s be honest, grown-ups usually grab two. They’re perfect for potlucks, summer bbqs, or any night you want a warm weather dessert to feel a little more fun.

Why We Love Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies

• Perfect Warm Weather Treat – This soft sugar cookie takes advantage of all the ripe fruit you find in the spring and summer and packs it into a fun cookie with sugar cookie crust and a cream cheese frosting.
• Individually Portioned – Single portions like these fruit pizza sugar cookies work great for a potluck, especially when everyone comes and snag a second treat without a napkin or plate!
• Fun To Make With The Kids – If your kids like cream cheese frosting and you’ve got fruit to use up, this mini fruit pizza recipe you need. These fruit pizza cookies are easy to bake, even easier to decorate, and just messy enough to make a good memory. I’ve included a homemade sugar cookie but you could easily use a store bought sugar cookie dough.

Ingredients For Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

Ingredients For The Sugar Cookies

• unsalted butter
• sugar
• large eggs
• vanilla extract
• flour
• salt

Ingredients For The Frosting and Toppings

• unsalted butter (softened)
• cream cheese (softened)
• powdered sugar
• vanilla
• fresh fruit – strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, mandarins, kiwi, or blackberries (cut into smaller pieces as needed, but leave the smaller berries like blueberries whole)

How To Make Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies

Making And Baking The Cookies

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line cookie sheet pans with parchment paper.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and 1 cup of sugar for 2 to 3 minutes with a stand mixer on low-medium. In a small bowl crack the eggs and beat with a fork or a whisk. Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter and sugar mixture, then mix until well blended.

3. To your wet mixture add the flour and scatter the salt around the bowl. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients well for a few minutes with a strong wooden spoon or a stand mixer on low and then medium until a dough forms. (Don’t try mixing this part of the cookie dough with a hand mixer, the dough is very thick and may break your mixer! Instead use a thick wooden spoon for this step if you have a hand mixer.)
4. Lightly flour the counter and a rolling pin, keeping a small pile of flour at the edge of your workspace. Roll out your dough to a thickness of about ⅜ of an inch adding dustings of flour as needed. You can use a chopstick to gauge thickness. Cut with a 3 inch round cookie cutter and place onto baking sheets at least 1 inch apart.

5. Place all cookies on baking sheets and bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Allow cookies to cool completely before frosting.

Making The Frosting And Toppings

1. Place butter and cream cheese in a large mixing bowl. Cream butter on medium speed for 4 to 5 minutes with an electric mixer. Add vanilla and powdered sugar, then mix for one more minute until fully mixed.
2. Spread about 2 tablespoons of frosting on each cookie to frost. Top each cookie with a mix of fruit pieces and enjoy!

Variation Ideas

Vary The Fruit – I’ve made these a bunch of times and I always grab whatever fruit looks best. While a rainbow of colors looks pretty, having fresh fruit matters. Try berries like strawberries, blueberries or blackberries. Cherries are delicious if you remove the pit, and peach can also be tasty. I like adding some kiwi because I like a mix of colorful fruit on top.

I also use mandarin oranges from a fruit cup combined with other fruit, just drain them and dry them well with paper towels. I’ve not tried other canned fruit like peaches and pears.

Try Pie Filling – While I love the fresh fruit, a can of pie filling can also be spooned onto the cookie base. Try cherry or blueberry filling!

Can You Make These Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies Ahead Of Time?

I usually make fruit pizza cookies the day before, but I wait to add the fruit to the top until right before we go. This helps to make sure that if the fruit is watery it doesn’t make the cookies watery. I’ll chop all the fruit ahead of time, and spoon it onto the cookies right before we leave.

Can You Freese Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies?

The base cutout sugar cookie recipe actually freezes beautifully on it’s own, I’ve made those weeks in advance unfrosted and froze them in a freezer zip-top bag with parchment paper in between the layers. Then I pull the cookies out the night before I frost them.

I don’t recommend freezing the individual cookies after adding the fruit. You can frost the cookies and freeze them, but the cookies shouldn’t be topped with fresh fruit until right before serving. The fruit when it defrosts will cause the cookies to become soggy.

How Long Will Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies Last?

Expect these cookies to last for about 2-3 days when stored in the refrigerator in a covered, airtight container. How long they last will depend partially on how watery the fruit you have is.

Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies

Course Baking, Dessert

Cuisine American

This recipe is typically made as one giant round sugar cookie “pizza,” but this version gives a twist of individual cookies that are perfectly pre-portioned treats!

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Ingredients For The Sugar Cookies

Ingredients For The Frosting And Toppings

Making And Baking The Cookies

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line large baking sheet pans with parchment paper.

• In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and 1 cup of sugar for 2 to 3 minutes with a stand mixer on low-medium. In a small bowl crack the eggs and beat with a fork or a whisk. Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter and sugar mixture, then mix until well blended.

• To your wet mixture add the flour and scatter the salt around the bowl. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients well for a few minutes with a strong wooden spoon or a stand mixer on low and then medium until a dough forms. (Don’t try mixing this part of the dough with a hand mixer, the dough is very thick and may break your mixer! Instead use a thick wooden spoon for this step if you have a hand mixer.)

• Lightly flour the counter and a rolling pin, keeping a small pile of flour at the edge of your workspace. Roll out your dough to a thickness of about ⅜ of an inch adding dustings of flour as needed. Use a chopstick to gauge thickness. Cut with a 3 inch round cookie cutter and place onto baking sheets at least 1 inch apart.

• Place all cookies on baking sheets and bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Allow cookies to cool completely before frosting.

Making The Frosting And Toppings

• Place butter and cream cheese in a large mixing bowl. Cream butter on medium speed for 4 to 5 minutes with an electric mixer. Add vanilla and powdered sugar, then mix for one more minute until fully mixed.

• Spread about 2 tablespoons of frosting on each cookie to frost. Top each cookie with a mix of fruit pieces and enjoy!

Fruit pizza is often made with store bought sugar cookies dough, but I’ve included my homemade cutout sugar cookies. You can use store bought sugar cookie dough, just slice and bake according to the directions before letting them cool, frosting and adding the fruit. If using the tube style cookie dough, you will likely want two tubes for the amount of frosting.

Calories: 247kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 40mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 441IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg

Keyword cookies, fruit, summer dessert

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