Fruit pizza cookies combine the sweet cream cheese and fruit topping of fruit pizza with a delicious sugar cookie to create a deliciously sweet and fruity dessert mashup that will have everyone coming back for more.
We love making frosted cookies of all kinds. Whether it's buttercream frosting, cream cheese frosting, or icing, topping a cookie with even more sweetness is always a good thing. We took that to the next level with these cookies, adding a sweet cream cheese frosting and fresh fruit for a sweet, summery cookie recipe perfect for parties or just a weeknight dessert.
This recipe was inspired by our popular fruit pizza. We turned its fresh flavors and textures into cookie form. This smaller version makes it easier to share with friends and family.
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Why You’ll Love Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizzas
- Simple Ingredients: Both the cookies and the frosting are made with basic kitchen staples, so there's no need to scour the store or the internet for specialty ingredients.
- Sweet and Tangy: The sweet sugar cookies and fresh fruit pair perfectly with the sweet and tangy cream cheese frosting.
- The Perfect Summer Dessert: Fresh fruit is a huge part of summer, and adding it to these cookies makes them the perfect sweet treat for hot summer days.
- Easy: Both cookie dough and frosting are quick and easy recipes that even beginners can easily make.
Ingredients
- Vanilla: Vanilla gives them their slightly sweet, aromatic flavor.
- Milk and Heavy Cream: Adding milk and heavy cream makes the extra tender and soft.
- Cream Cheese: Cream cheese creates a tangy frosting that balances with the sweetness of the cookies and fruit.
- Fresh Fruit: Adds a bright, naturally sweet flavor synonymous with summer. Whole small berries like blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, sliced strawberries, and sliced kiwi are all commonly found on fruit pizza. But you can use any of your favorite fruits for these fruit pizza cookies.
See the recipe card at the end of the post for a full list of ingredients and their exact quantities.
Flavor Variations
- Lemon Flavor: Add lemon extract to your cookie dough for a refreshing citrus kick. This will infuse the cookies with a bright, tangy flavor that pairs beautifully with their sweetness, making them irresistibly delicious. The lemon extract enhances the overall taste, giving them a delightful zesty twist.
- Super Soft Cookies: Use cake flour for super soft and fluffy cookies. Its lower protein content creates a tender and airy texture, perfect for melt-in-your-mouth treat.
How To Make Fruit Pizza Cookies
1: Cream the butter, eggs, and vanilla. Then, add the salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Alternate adding flour and the milk and cream until the dough sticks to the whisk, forming clumps.
2: Chill the dough until cold but not hard. Then, roll out half of it to about ½-inch thickness. Cut the cookies out with a cookie cutter and place them on a prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
3: Bake the cookies until the bottoms are slightly golden brown. Immediately place them on a cooling rack to cool completely.
4: Beat the cream cheese frosting ingredients in a bowl until smooth and creamy.
5: Spread the topping evenly over each cookie, top with fresh fruit, and enjoy!
Hint
After about 8 minutes, check the bottoms of the cookies for doneness. If the bottoms are slightly golden, they're done. They should not be golden on top or the outside, or they will not be as soft.
Storage
Refrigerate them for up to 4 days in an air-tight container. You can freeze them for up to a month WITHOUT fresh fruit on top. Wrap chilled cookies without fruit in plastic wrap and freeze them in an air-tight container.
Defrost overnight in the refrigerator, top with fresh fruit, and enjoy.
What To Serve With Mini Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies
The cookies' have a sweet and tangy flavor, combined with the cream cheese and fruit, makes them a great choice for a light, sweet snack after a hearty meal like meatloaf or sheet-pan chicken and vegetables.
Garlic butter chicken bites or our puff pastry chicken pot pie also make an excellent pairing with the bright, fruity flavor of these cookies.
Of course, you can also make these part of a larger dessert spread with other summery desserts like these raspberry lemonade cupcakes or strawberry shortcake biscuits.
Tips
- Mixing: For the softest cookies possible, mix your ingredients until just combined and no further. This limits excess gluten, which can make them tougher.
- Cool Them Off: Be sure your cookies are fully cooled before adding the frosting or it will slide right off.
- Prep the Fruit: If using sliced berries or fruit, slice it and place it on a paper towel first to absorb any excess liquid that might come out of it after slicing.
- Fluff That Frosting: The easiest way to make light, fluffy frosting for cookies is to use an electric mixer or stand mixer.
- Get Creative with Designs: Once you've frosted your cookies, unleash your inner artist! Arrange the fruit slices in a fun and colorful design. You can even use cookie cutters to create different shapes and sizes.
Frequently Asked Questions
A fruit pizza is a dessert made with a cookie "crust" topped with cream cheese frosting and fresh fruit.
Cookies that are less soft than expected are generally the result of using too much flour or overbaking. Scoop your flour out loosely with a spoon, fill your measuring cup with it, and level it off with a knife to avoid compacting. Remove your cookies when the bottoms are golden. If the tops are golden, they're overbaked.
If you don't soften your cream cheese, the mixture can be grainy. This is because the cream cheese is too hard and cold to thoroughly cream when beaten, resulting in little bits of raw cream cheese in the mixture.
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Fruit Pizza Cookies
Ingredients
- 1½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 4½-5 cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup heavy cream
Topping
- 8 oz cream cheese room temperature
- 3 tbsp butter room temperature
- 1⅓ cup powdered sugar
- 3 cups desired fresh fruit
Instructions
- Cream together butter, eggs, sugar, and vanilla extract in the bowl of a stand mixer.
- Next, add salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Mix until well combined.
- Add flour, milk, and heavy cream alternately. Mix until the dough sticks to the whisk, forming clumps.
- Cover the bowl with a tight layer of plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat over to 350℉—line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Evenly sprinkle a layer of four over a clean, flat surface. Roll half the dough out until it is about ½ an inch thick. Cut the dough into the desired shape and place it on the prepared baking sheet, leaving 2 inches between each cookie. (This dough is very soft, so I recommend using shapes that don't have a lot of detail).
- Bake the cookies for 8-10 mins. The best way to tell if these cookies are done is to carefully lift the corner of one with a spatula to see if the bottoms are slightly golden brown. If you start to see a golden brown color on the outside/top of the cookies, they will not be as soft
- Immediately remove the cookies from the baking sheet and place them on a cooling rack. Cool completely before adding toppings
Topping
- Whip cream cheese, butter, and vanilla extract together using a stand or a hand-held mixer. Add in the powdered sugar and mix until smooth and creamy.
- Evenly spread the cream cheese topping over each cookie.
- Top with your desired fruit, Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
*All nutrition information provided is automatically calculated and is an estimate and will vary based on ingredients, brands, and changes in cooking methods listed in the recipe. If you need exact numbers on your ingredients, I would recommend calculating them with your prefered nutrition calculator.
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