This summertime fruit pizza is my very favorite dessert for any and all summer gatherings! This has been a classic, along with my Oreo Ice Cream Cake, and has been served at every big summer event for as long as I can remember.
I’ve learned over the years that this is through and through a midwestern dish. My East coast friends thought that fruit pizza meant a Hawaiian pizza- ya know, Canadian bacon and pineapple. This was a wildly new concept to them, but I think it deserves to be a favorite from coast to coast.
This perfect little dessert has all the best summer fruits on it, and is a crowd favorite 110% of the time. I always always use strawberries, blueberries, kiwi, and cherries. Any other small berries, grapes, or mandarin oranges would work too. I would recommend staying away from apples though.
If I were an over achiever, I would make my own cookie dough to use for this recipe. Sally’s Baking Addiction is my #1 place to find the best cookie recipes. Her sugar cookies are, no surprise, top notch.
Like always, this is completely customizable to your liking. Use the fruit you like to make it your favorite!
Summertime Fruit Pizza
Equipment
- parchment paper
- baking sheet
Ingredients
- 16 oz roll of sugar cookie dough let this sit out of the refrigerator for about 10 minutes before working with it
- 8 oz cream cheese at room temp
- 1/4 c powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- sliced strawberries
- sliced kiwis
- sliced grapes in half
- sliced cherries pitted and sliced in half
- blueberries
Instructions
- Roll out the roll of cookie dough into one large cookie onto parchment paper. This can be rectangular or round, or any shape desired, depending on the shape baking sheet
- Bake the cookie at 350 for 10-12 minutes, or until the middle appears cooked through. Be sure to not let it cook until the edges get very golden, or the cookie will become crunchy. Let it cool completely
- In a bowl, combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar, and lemon juice. Spread this evenly across the cookie
- Decorate the cookie with sliced fruit as desired
- Keep the fruit pizza refrigerated until it is time to be served
This summertime fruit pizza should be kept refrigerated until it’s ready to be devoured. Unfortunately, this is not a recipe you should make up ahead of time- serve it the day you make it.
