Easy American Flag Fruit Pizza Dessert
Fruit pizza is such a fun festive dessert and also super delicious. With a sugar cookie crust, cheesecake frosting and fresh fruit on top, this Easy American Flag Fruit Pizza dessert is perfection. Serve it for Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day or any patriotic holidays for a festive treat.
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What is a Dessert Pizza
A dessert pizza is a sweet treat that mimics a traditional pizza in shape and the way you stack ingredients on a crust.
The crust of a sweet pizza is a cookie and the sauce is frosting. For the toppings you can go with anything sweet but fresh fruit is a delicious and beautiful option.
What goes into this Recipe
- Sugar Cookie Dough- Using store-bought sugar cookie dough allows you to make this dessert quickly.
- Whipped Topping- Adding Cool Whip to the frosting gives the texture of a no bake cheesecake.
See recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Substitutions/Variations
Cookie: Use refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough, sugar cookie mix or your favorite cookie recipe. This sugar cookie or this chocolate chip cookie recipe would both be wonderful.
Frosting: If you don’t want to make your own frosting, use a store bought cream cheese frosting. You could also make this marshmallow buttercream for this flag fruit pizza recipe.
Fruit: Fresh berries work best on this patriotic fruit pizza but other types of fruit work too. I suggest using fruits that are red and blue in color. Blackberries and raspberries are great options.
How to make an easy American Flag Dessert Pizza
1. To make this patriotic dessert, cut the sugar cookie dough into 20 rounds.
2. Place the rounds of cookie dough onto a pizza pan in a circle.
3. Press the cookie rounds together with your fingers. Make sure that there are no holes in the crust.
4. Take the ends of the sugar cookie crust and roll out into a circle that is about a 1/4 inch thick. Cut out using a star cookie cutter or stencil.
5. Bake the cookie crust in a 350 degree oven for 18-22 minutes or until the cookie is baked through and golden brown.
6. For the frosting, combine the cream cheese and powdered sugar in a medium bowl. Add the whipped topping to the mixture and mix. Top the cookie with a thin even layer of the cheesecake frosting.
7. Next, top the frosting with sliced fresh strawberries and fresh blueberries in an American flag pattern.
8. To finish the sweet pizza, use the rest of the cream cheese mixture to make the white stripes in between rows of sliced strawberries and around the border {using a pastry bag or zipper bag}. Finally, add the cookie star on top of the blueberries. Cut with a pizza cutter and serve.
Expert Tips
- Make sure that the sugar cookie dough is cold. The chill in the dough will ensure that it doesn’t spread too much while baking.
- While the cookie is baking, prepare the fruit. Wash the fruit and slice strawberries before decorating so the process goes quickly when creating the flag design.
- If you don’t have a piping bag and star tip using a zipper bag. Cut a triangle from the corner of one side of the bottom of the bag and fill with frosting.
- Use your favorite fruit to decorate the top of the cookie pizza. Fresh raspberries, blackberries, watermelon or grapes would all be delicious.
- Allow a cookie from the fridge to come to room temperature before serving. Doing so will give you a soft cookie.
Storage and Freezing
Store: To store this flag fruit pizza, place the cookie onto a large tray and cover tightly with plastic wrap. It will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
Freeze: The cookie {or crust} part of this recipe can easily be frozen for up to 3 months. I do not suggest freezing it with the fresh fruit or frosting.
Recipe FAQs
Absolutely! If you have a good sugar cookie dough recipe go ahead and a homemade sugar cookie crust.
This cream cheese sugar cookie would be a great choice!
Sweet dessert pizzas are wonderful because any type of fresh and ripe fruit works wonderfully on top.
To create an American flag, blue and red fruits should be used. Strawberries and raspberries, along with blueberries and blackberries are great choices.
Do you love Red, White and Blue desserts? Try these recipes…
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Ingredients
- 1 tube sugar cookie dough {16.5 ounces}
Cheesecake Frosting
- 8 ounces cream cheese {softened}
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup whipped topping
Fruit
- sliced strawberries
- blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven for 350°. Spray a pizza pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Slice the sugar cookie dough into 20 rounds {keep ends for the star}. Place the rounds on the prepared baking sheet in a circle. Press the cookies together to create a crust.
- Bake crust for 18-22 minutes or until the middle is baked through and it is golden brown. Remove from the oven and allow the cookie crust to cool completely.
- While the cookie is cooling, take the ends of the sugar cookie dough and add a teaspoon {or two} of flour. Combine and roll out into a circle. Cut out a star using a cookie cutter or a knife. Place onto a baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes. If the cookie spreads too much, reuse the star cookie cutter to get a nice star shape.
Cheesecake Frosting and Assembly
- Once the crust is cool, add the cream cheese to a medium bowl and mix until creamy using a hand held {or stand} mixer. Add the powdered sugar and mix until smooth. Finally, add the whipped topping and gently mix into the cream cheese.
- Add a thin layer of cream cheese frosting over the top of the cookie {keep remaining frosting for the stripes and border}. Add blueberries to the upper left hand corner of the pizza. Then add stripes of sliced strawberries to create an American flag.
- Add the remaining frosting to a piping bag with a star tip {or a zipper bag}. Pipe in between the strawberry lines and around the border of the cookie. Top the blueberries with the star cookie. Serve or store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
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Notes
- Make sure that the sugar cookie dough is cold. The chill in the dough will ensure that it doesn’t spread too much while baking.
- While the cookie is baking, prepare the fruit. Wash the fruit and slice strawberries before decorating so the process goes quickly when creating the flag design.
- If you don’t have a piping bag and star tip using a zipper bag. Cut a triangle from the corner of one side of the bottom of the bag and fill it with frosting.
- Use your favorite fruit to decorate the top of the cookie pizza. Fresh raspberries, blackberries, watermelon or grapes would all be delicious.
- To store this flag fruit pizza, place the cookie onto a large tray and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
- The cookie {or crust} part of this recipe can easily be frozen for up to 3 months. I do not suggest freezing it with the fresh fruit or frosting.
- Allow a cookie from the fridge to come to room temperature before serving. Doing so will give you a soft cookie.
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