This is the time of year that I love to make fruit pizza. Fresh fruit is in season and you can get it for fantastic prices. My local grocer had blackberries, strawberries, and blueberries for a great price. I also decided to add some canned mandarin oranges and pineapple along with some bananas and kiwi. Think color when choosing your fruit. This dessert always looks so fresh and impressive. It would be perfect for your Memorial Day barbecue. You could even go with a patriotic theme with your fruit similar to this, this, or even this.
A good friend of mine originally shared this recipe with me. It has a sugar cookie crust that is soft and tender but not too sweet. You can also make regular sugar cookies (even Betty Crockers sugar cookie mix will do) and make mini fruit pizzas or even have a mini fruit pizza bar. You have the cookies spread with the topping and then have assorted fruits that your guests can top their own pizza with. These really are fun and so delicious.
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Congrats! I hope you enjoy it!
Fruit Pizza
Crust:
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup milk
Glaze: (optional)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- dash of salt
- 2 Tbsp. cornstarch
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup water
Topping:
- 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese
- 1 (8 oz. ) container Cool Whip
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Also need assorted fruits to top the pizza. Be creative – strawberries, grapes, kiwi, mandarin oranges, raspberries, blackberries, pineapple, peaches, apples, blueberries
For the crust: Blend sugar, shortening, and vanilla well. Add egg and beat until smooth. Add dry ingredients alternately with the milk until dough is formed. Chill dough for 1 hour. Spray an 13-14 inch pizza pan with cooking spray. Press dough into pizza pan. Use a round glass to help even and flatten out the dough. Bake at 350 degress for 10-12 minutes or until the edges get light golden in color. Allow crust to cool.
For the glaze: Prepare this while the crust cools. Mix ingredients in a sauce pan and cook for about 4 minutes, just until it begins to thicken. Allow to cool.
For the topping: In a large bowl, blend ingredients with a mixer until nice and smooth.
To assemble the pizza: Spread the topping onto the cooled crust, leaving 1/2-1 inch of the edge of the crust uncovered. Arrange fruit over pizza in desired pattern. This is the fun part. If using the glaze: take a pastry brush and gently brush glaze over fruit. This helps to preserve the fruit. Make sure none of it gets on the exposed crust or it will make the crust soggy. Depending on the fruit you use, you can do this the night before. I do know the bananas and apples don’t work to make it the night before.
Variations: Instead of the glaze, drizzle fruit with melted chocolate.
Instead of fruit topping you can use canned pie filling.
I use crescent rolls as my crust, it’s not as sweet and it always goes fast, faster then the cookie dough crust.
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I’ve done a Fruit Pizza before – but used refrigerated sugar cookie dough from the store as a crust. Otherwise it’s pretty much the same!! I’m loving all the recipes on your blog!! Will probably never get through them all
This is delicious! I add 1/2 c of coconut to the topping. Was a hit!
thank you
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Yeah, it’s good, very useful, thanks
tried this over the holiday weekend( really great )the kids loved it nice and lite on a hot florida afternoon—-thanks
Also, for a quick topping ‘cheat’, you can use Litehouse Fruit Dip in the Cream Cheese flavor. By the fruit in the produce section.
It’s been years since I made a fruit pizza – and we were actually just talking about that this weekend. I said I needed to try to find my recipe! Now I don’t need to! Can’t wait.
YUMMY! I want to make that right now!!
I would have never thought to put fruit on a pizza! It looks great though!