We love fruit pizza around here and if you've never made it before it is the perfect summer dessert! You can use certain fruits to make it festive (4th of July anyone?) or you can use all of your favorite fruits to make it simply decadent. We just posted our favorite sugar cookie recipe, with all the tips to make it perfect, and that same recipe is the one we use for fruit pizza. This is a great recipe to have your kiddos help with...they can help mix the dough and even help decorate the pizza!
Cookie Crust
Prepare your dough as described in our previous post or use your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe.
Filling
1/2 cup flavored yogurt*
1/2 cup whipped cream*
4 oz cream cheese, softened*
Fruit
Choose 2-5 fruits and slice approximately 1/8" thick
Black/rasp/blue berries do not need to be sliced
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat. Roll out your cookie dough on a cookie sheet in whatever shape you desire, dough should be approx 1/4" thick. The cookie dough will need extra baking time since it is so large, but make sure you keep an eye on it.
While dough is baking mix together your filling and prep your fruits.
After dough is golden brown, remove from oven and let it cool completely. Your filling will fall flat and melt if you put it on too soon. Spoon on filling once cool, leaving a "crust" around the perimeter.
Add the fruit. Sometimes I do a single layer (as shown) but alternate rows of fruit. Or you can also stack the fruit so that every bite has every fruit (i.e. strawberry layer, then a banana layer, then a berry layer).
If you used a Silpat, remember not to use a sharp knife to cut the pizza! You will ruin your mat! Use a butter knife instead, or simple remove the pizza from the Silpat (I don't have a serving tray that is large enough to hold this size of pizza, hence its home on the Silpat). Slice and enjoy!
*For a healthier spread, use 1 cup plain greek yogurt, add a few drops of orange/lemon essential oil, and sweeten with Stevia or honey.
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