Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza
This sugar cookie fruit pizza is a delicious dessert layered with whipped cream cheese frosting, fresh fruit, and an apricot jelly glaze. It's sweet, refreshing, and an absolute crowd-pleaser!
Equipment
- Hand Mixer
- Baking Sheet
- Round Baking Sheet Pan
Ingredients
Soft Chewy Sugar Cookie
- 1 cup Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1 Egg Yolk
- 1 cup White Sugar
- ⅓ cup Brown Sugar
- 1 tbsp Vanilla
- ½ teaspoon Almond Extract
- ½ teaspoon Lemon Juice
- 2 ½ cups All Purpose Flour
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ¼ teaspoon Corn Starch
- ½ tsp Salt
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 oz Cream Cheese room temperature
- 8 oz Whipped Cream
Fruit Toppings
- 2 cups Strawberries
- 1 ½ Kiwi
- 1 cup Blueberries
- 1 cup Mandarins
- ¼ cup Raspberries
Orange Apricot Mint Glaze
- 3 tablespoon Apricot Jelly
- 1 tbsp Honey
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
- ⅓ cup Orange Juice
- 1 sprig Fresh Mint optional
Instructions
Soft Chewy Sugar Cookie
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, add butter, white sugar and brown sugar. Cream with hand mixer until thoroughly combined.
- Add in egg, egg yolk, vanilla and almond extract, lemon juice and mix for an additional 30 seconds or until ingredients are thoroughly combined.
- Add in dry ingredients and mix until thoroughly combined. Use a spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl to ensure ingredients are mixed well.
- Line a round baking sheet pan with parchment paper and place dough in the center of the pan.
- Using a spatula or your hands, spread dough evenly onto the baking sheet to fit the circumference of the pan. The dough will become sticky, use 1 teaspoon of flour or 1 teaspoon water to assist.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until cookie is slightly brown and almost firm to touch.
- As cookie crust cools, the cookie will harden more.
- Set aside until ready for use.
Fruit Toppings
- Slice strawberries into ½ in slices removing the stem.
- Peel kiwi and slice into ½ inch circles.
- Rinse blueberries and set aside to dry.
- Drain mandarins and set aside to dry.
- Rinse raspberries and set aside to dry.
Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting
- In a large mixing bowl, mix whipped cream and cream cheese using a hand mixer until thoroughly combined and smooth.
- Set aside until assembly.
Orange Apricot Mint Glaze
- In a medium sized pot on low to medium heat, add glaze ingredients.
- Stir consistently until well combined and glaze begins to thicken.
- Set aside until assembly.
Fruit Pizza Assembly
- Once cookie crust has cooled, add whipped cream cheese frosting to the center of crust adding about ½ cup at a time.
- Begin spreading the frosting evenly over crust as if you're making a real pizza.
- Add more frosting as needed until entire crust is covered with frosting leaving 1-2 inches of crust without frosting.
- Begin layering your fruit around the pizza alternating toppings based on the pattern you'd like to use until you reach the center of the pizza. (your pizza should be filled with fruit)
- Once your glaze has slightly cooled. Take a pastry brush and brush glaze over fruit being careful not to drench fruit with glaze.
- Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to be used.