A Sugar Cookie Pizza is a great way to make and easy and fantastic dessert using fresh summer berries. Completely customizable, this is one your family will love!
Try my Patriotic Fruit Kabobs, or my S’mores Dip, too!
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It’s berry season! I absolutely love berries and how versatile they are. Adding them to salads is fine, making sweet dressings is great too. But where berries really shine is when you let THEM be the star of the show.
This beautiful fruit pizza recipe is budget-friendly and ready in under 30 minutes. It is the best summer dessert, and holds up well without being refrigerated. And it’s pretty. It’s a big hit any time I bring it to a pot luck or gathering, and super easy. Everyone loves a crowd pleaser, right?
I particularly love this dessert pizza because not only does it look SO good, it tastes amazing. Berries combined with creamy dreamy cream cheese frosting, on top of a soft sugar cookie crust? Sign me up!
I use store bought sugar cookie dough, but you could easily make your own using your favorite homemade sugar cookie recipe.
If you’re into easy summer desserts, try this Classic Banana Split or these No Bake Banana Cream Parfaits or this crazy good Blueberry Fluff Salad!
Why you’ll love this recipe
- Easy – the recipe is separated into 3 easy steps below. This can be made the day you want to eat it, or partially made ahead. For best results, wait until the last possible minute before decorating with the berries.
- Customizable – you don’t have to decorate like I do! You could VERY easily make a flag design using this exact recipe (great for 4th July, Flag Day and Memorial Day! You can even make these as fruit pizza cookies for single serving purposes.
- Budget Friendly – using in-season fresh fruit makes this yummy dessert easy on the wallet. Any type of fruit works though! Mandarin oranges, grapes, kiwi and cantaloupe are also great on this!
Kylee’s Notes
Let the cookie base cool COMPLETELY before attempting the next step. If the base is warm, the frosting will melt and be a mess!
Use parchment paper or cooking spray on your baking sheet if you are worried about your cookie sticking.
Choose any kind of berries that you like – make it pretty, however you prefer!
Add a little vanilla extract to the frosting place of the lemon if you wish.
Use a pizza cutter to make it easy to slice and serve.
MAKING AHEAD
If you are making ahead – wait until the day of serving to add the berries. They “bleed” juice into the frosting if you make it too far ahead!
Keep cookie base at room temperature, but refrigerate the frosting.
Serving Suggestion
Sprinkle mint leaves over the top to add a touch of “hey this is fancy”.
Key Recipe Ingredients
The full list of ingredients and amounts is found in the printable recipe card below.
- Sugar Cookie Dough. I grab this premade, but you can use your favorite homemade sugar cookie dough recipe.
- Cream cheese. you can use full fat or low fat cream cheese.
- Butter. I use salted butter.
- Powdered Sugar. Also known as icing sugar or confectioners sugar.
- Lemon. We use both the zest and the juice!
- Fruit. I use fresh strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. Choose any of your favorite fruits. I love fresh berries in summer, but use kiwi, pineapple, mandarin oranges as well. Any type of colorful fruit, including canned, will work.
How to make a sugar cookie fruit pizza:
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This next part is only a photo tutorial of the recipe steps. The full list of ingredients, quantities and instructions can be found in the printable recipe card below.
Make the Base
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
On a baking sheet or pizza stone, roll or press the dough out evenly as shown, leaving space for it to spread as it cooks.
Bake in oven for 16-18 minutes. It’s done when it goes golden brown around the edges. Cool completely
Make the cream cheese frosting
While the crust cools, add the cream cheese and butter to the bowl of stand mixer, or a large bowl (use an electric mixer unless you are training as a body builder) and beat together until light and fluffy.
Add the powdered sugar and salt and beat until all is incorporated.
Grate lemon zest into frosting, then squeeze lemon juice in (about 1 Tbs).
Check for consistency – it should be thick, but easily spreadable.
Frost and Decorate
Dump the frosting out onto the cooled crust.
Spread the frosting in an even layer (well, as evenly as possible), going right to the edges.
Add fruit on top in a pattern (or not!) until your pizza is all filled in with fruit slices.
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Sugar Cookie Pizza (with Summer Berries)
Ingredients
Sugar Cookie Base
- 16.5 ounces store bought sugar cookie dough
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese (softened)
- 4 ounces butter (softened)
- pinch of salt
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoons lemon zest
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Topping
- 4 ounces strawberries (washed and sliced)
- 6 ounces raspberries (washed)
- 4 ounces blueberries (washed)
- 6 ounces blackberries (washed)
Directions
MAKE THE BASE
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- On a baking sheet or pizza stone, roll or press 16.5 ounces store bought sugar cookie dough out evenly as shown, leaving space for it to spread as it cooks.
- Bake in oven for 16-18 minutes. It’s done when it goes golden brown around the edges. Cool completely
MAKE THE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- Beat together 4 ounces cream cheese and 4 ounces butter until well combined.
- Add the 2 cups powdered sugar and pinch of salt and beat until all is incorporated.
- Grate ½ teaspoons lemon zest into frosting.
- Squeeze 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
- Check for consistency – it should be thick, but easily spreadable.
FROST AND DECORATE
- Dump the frosting out onto the cooled cookie base.
- Spread the frosting as evenly as possible, going right to the edges.
- Add 4 ounces strawberries, 6 ounces raspberries, 4 ounces blueberries, and 6 ounces blackberries on top in a pattern (or not!) until your pizza is all filled in with fruit.
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Notes
- Let the cookie base cool COMPLETELY before attempting the next step. If the base is warm, the frosting will melt and be a mess!
- Use parchment paper or cooking spray on your baking sheet if you are worried about your cookie sticking.
- Choose any kind of berries that you like – make it pretty, however you prefer!
- Add a little vanilla extract to the frosting place of the lemon if you wish.
- Use a pizza cutter to make it easy to slice and serve.
If you are making ahead – wait until the day of serving to add the berries. They “bleed” juice into the frosting if you make it too far ahead! Keep cookie base at room temperature, but refrigerate the frosting. SERVING SUGGESTION
Sprinkle mint leaves over the top to add a touch of “hey this is fancy”.
Nutrition Facts
Disclaimer
Nutritional information is an estimate and provided to you as a courtesy. You should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.
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