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The Absolute Best 4th of July Fruit Pizza

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  • Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
  • Yield: 16 slices 1x

Description

This festive fruit pizza is a perfect dessert for any summer gathering. Sweet sugar cookie balances the tartness of some of the fruit and cream cheese.

Ingredients

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Sugar Cookie Crust

  • 3/4 cup butter ((1 1/2 sticks of butter))
  • 1 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract
  • 2 1/2 cup flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • tsp salt

Cream Cheese Icing

  • 8 oz cream cheese ((I used low fat for this recipe))
  • 3/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tsp orange zest

Toppings

  • Fresh strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 and prepare baking dish. Grease a pie dish with a little butter, making sure to the whole pan is greased, even the edges.  *
  2.  In a medium bowl, mix together your dry ingredients – flour, baking powder and salt. Set dry ingredients aside to be added later.
  3. In an electric stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy, about 3-5 minutes.
  4. Add eggs, vanilla and almond extract to the creamed butter and blend until combined.
  5. Add in dry ingredients until just combined.Scrape edges and blend to make sure everything is incorporated. It is important to not overmix.
  6. Once you have formed the dough, evenly press the dough into the pan and place in the preheated oven. Cook for 15-20 minutes. The sugar cookie crust should be a light golden color.
  7. Remove from oven and let cool. This could take 30-40 minutes to cool completely.
  8. While the cookie crust is cooling, make your cream cheese icing.
  9. In the stand mixer with the whisk attachment, combine cream cheese, powdered sugar. Mix until combined icing is light and fluffy. Mix in orange zest at the end.
  10. Decorate your pizza. Spread a layer of cream cheese icing over the top of the pizza.
  11. Assemble the toppings. This is where you can get creative with decorating. **
  12. Slice, serve and enjoy!

Notes

Notes:

*You can make this in a sheet pan as well.

**Toppings: You can swap out fruit toppings with your favorite fruits. We recommend berries, mandarin orange slices, kiwi, grapes, bananas, peach slices, mango.

 

  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: American

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