Fruit Pizza
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Fruit Pizza
Description
The Fruit Pizza features a sugar cookie crust baked until just golden, offering a soft yet sturdy base. This crust is topped with a cream cheese-based frosting sweetened with powdered sugar and lightly flavored with pineapple juice, giving it a subtle fruity tang. The topping involves an assortment of fresh fruits such as bananas, strawberries, kiwi, blackberries, pineapple, and blueberries, arranged decoratively just before serving to maintain freshness and visual appeal. The cookie base provides chewiness, while the frosting adds creaminess, and the fresh fruit contributes a juicy, refreshing contrast.
The dessert is best served chilled shortly after assembly to preserve the texture of the fruit and the frosting. The interplay between the creamy frosting and fresh fruit makes it well-suited as a light dessert or a celebratory treat during warmer months. Serving soon after preparation helps maintain the cookie crust's texture and the fruits' brightness. The recipe suggests dipping bananas in pineapple juice to prevent browning, helping keep the fruit topping visually appealing.
Time can be saved by preparing the crust, frosting, and fruit components separately in advance, but assembly should be done within a few hours of serving to avoid sogginess. Leftovers can be refrigerated but may lose their crispness and fresh texture within a day or two. A ready-made sugar cookie dough can also be substituted for the crust to reduce preparation time.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup sugar
- ½ cup butter unsalted
- 1 egg
- 1¼ cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Toppings
- banana
- strawberry
- kiwi
- blackberry
- pineapple
- Blueberry
Frosting
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese softened
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons pineapple juice or vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- In a medium bowl, cream sugar, butter, and egg with a hand mixer.
- In another bowl, mix flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt.
- Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture and mix until well combined.
- Dip hands in flour and spread dough onto a lightly greased pizza pan until it is approximately ¼ inch thick. Leave 1–2 inches around the edges of the pan for dough to expand.
- Bake for 10 minutes, then let cool.
- While crust cools, make the frosting. In a medium bowl, cream together cream cheese, sugar, and pineapple juice with the hand mixer. Spread over cooled cookie crust.
- Right before serving, add desired fruit in the pattern you prefer. Dip bananas in pineapple juice to keep them from getting dark fast.
- Keep refrigerated for up to 3 hours until ready to serve.
Notes
- Prepare crust, frosting, and fruit separately ahead but assemble fruit pizza within 2-3 hours for best texture.
- Store cooled crust at room temperature; keep frosting and sliced fruit refrigerated separately.
- Dip bananas in pineapple juice before assembling to prevent browning.
- Leftover fruit pizza can be refrigerated for 1-2 days but crust and fruit may become soggy over time.
- If short on time, store-bought sugar cookie dough can be used for the crust, baked at 375°F for about 13 minutes.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 8slices
Amount Per Serving
Calories 362 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1slice | |
| Calories | 362kcal | 18% |
| Carbohydrates | 58g | 19% |
| Protein | 5g | 10% |
| Fat | 13g | 20% |
| Saturated Fat | 8g | 40% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 3g | 15% |
| Trans Fat | 0.5g | 25% |
| Cholesterol | 51mg | 17% |
| Sodium | 116mg | 5% |
| Potassium | 122mg | 3% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 27g | 54% |
| Vitamin A | 386IU | 8% |
| Vitamin C | 0.4mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 14mg | 1% |
| Iron | 2mg | 11% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
User Reviews
Overall Rating
5
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