The perfect summery dessert! This Fruit Pizza uses a Snickerdoodle Cookie Crust. Top it with your favorite or in-season fruit!
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Fruit pizzas are a perfect summer dessert. Make one up ahead of time, and serve it at a gathering! They are beautiful, fresh tasting, and fun to make.
I have been making this fruit pizza on a snickerdoodle cookie crust for years. For the photos, I take the time to lay the fruit out perfectly in a design. However, more often I make this cookie and then let my son or niece and nephew help me — the fruit design doesn’t look perfect with little hands helping, but they have so much fun and it tastes just as delicious!
You’ll LOVE this Fruit Pizza Because:
- Snickerdoodles > sugar cookies
- The homemade snickerdoodle cookie dough is made with oat flour and cashew butter — meaning it’s full of nutritious ingredients instead of white flour and sugar.
- The “FROSTING” is a lightly sweetened cream cheese — so high in protein, low in sugar.
- It’s a beautiful dessert to add to a summer table! Use berries, stone fruit, kiwis, mangos, dragon fruit — whatever brightly colored fruit you find in season.
A High Protein “Frosting” for your Fruit Pizza
You can sub whatever frosting you love to use for this fruit pizza recipe.
I prefer not to use sugar-based frostings, so often use cream cheese to make healthy frosting.
This fruit pizza will be plenty sweet with the cinnamon-sugar cookie and the fresh fruit, so a lightly sweetened cream cheese is the perfect high-protein addition!
How to Make a Healthy Fruit Pizza
Step 1: After the snickerdoodle cookie dough has chilled, place the cookie dough ball between two large pieces of parchment, and roll it out into a 10-12 inch circle. Use hands to press the sides into a smooth-ish shape. It doesn’t have to be perfect! Sprinkle the edges with a cinnamon sugar mixture.
If snickerdoodles aren’t your fav cookie, I also have this recipe for a Fruit Pizza on a Gingersnap Cookie.
Step 2: Bake the cookie for 14 minutes. After it’s baked, allow it to fully cool before topping it. If you have time, throw it in the freezer until you’re ready to top it.
Step 3: Make a cream cheese frosting by adding cream cheese, honey, and vanilla to a mixer. This is easiest to get smooth if you’ve allowed the cream cheese to sit out and come to room temperature. A quick tip is to use a whipped cream cheese — you can skip the mixer and just stir the honey and vanilla right into the fluffy cream cheese.
Step 4: Frost the cookie with the cream cheese. This makes a perfect sticky base for the fruit to adhere to.
Step 5: Use a variety of colorful fruit to top your cookie in a pattern. This is a great step for kids to help with! Perfection not necessary.
Step 6: The cookie will be easiest to slice if you have a couple of hours to let it sit refrigerated. The frosting will soften the cookie and it will cut without crumbling. Cover with plastic wrap and make up to a day ahead of time!
This is a fruit pizza I made while living in Malaysia — where I had dragon fruit galore! It made a beautiful topping. If you have an Asian import store nearby, try picking up a red dragon fruit for your pizza.
Tips for Making a Gluten Free Fruit Pizza
- Save Time: Use a store bought cookie dough for this recipe. Pretty much any cookie base will work! Sugar cookie dough is easy to find, both in regular or gluten free options.
- Lower the Carbs: You can make this low carb and sugar free by using a Keto Snickerdoodle Cookie – my favorite comes from ZenSweet! Use powdered ZenSweet monk fruit sweetener for the cream cheese, and then use strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and kiwi for the topping.
- Experiment with Fruit: Use any kind of fruit you have on hand or that’s at the store in season. Berries are perfect for making beautiful designs. Also try: pomegranate, stone fruit, mango, dragonfruit, mandarin oranges, gooseberries, melons, or cherries.
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Fruit Pizza on a Snickerdoodle Crust
Ingredients
Cookie Base
- batch Gluten Free Snickerdoodle dough
"Frosting"
- 1 container whipped cream cheese
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Toppings (sub any seasonal fruit)
- 4 large strawberries sliced
- 2 kiwi thinly sliced
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1/2 mango sliced
Instructions
- After making the Snickerdoodle dough, place it in the fridge to chill for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add honey and vanilla to the whipped cream cheese, and stir to combine. If subbing a non-whipped cream cheese, put in the food processor and whip in the honey and vanilla for about 1-2 minutes, until the mixture is very smooth (when I do this, I let the cream cheese warm up to room temperature first).
- Allow the cream cheese frosting to cool in the fridge while the cookie is baking.
- Once the dough has chilled, it will be easier to work with. Create a ball, and then flatten the ball onto parchment in a circle. My circle was about 10 inches in diameter. Use wet hands, or a wet rolling pin, to roll out evenly, and even out the edges.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes. Turn off the oven, but leave the cookie in the oven for about 15 more minutes. This will allow the cookie to become a bit crispier, and will help it hold up to the toppings better.
- Allow the cookie base to completely cool in the refrigerator or freezer. When ready to top, frost it with the cream cheese mixture, and layer the fruit on in any design you'd like.
- The cookie base will cut the cleanest/nicest when the "pizza" is cold.
- Store refrigerated for up to 5 days (the fruit will begin to look sad after 3 days!).
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Notes
- Save Time: Use a store bought cookie dough for this recipe. Pretty much any cookie base will work! Sugar cookie dough is easy to find, both in regular or gluten free options.
- Lower the Carbs: You can make this low carb and sugar free by using a Keto Snickerdoodle Cookie – my favorite comes from ZenSweet! Use powdered ZenSweet monk fruit sweetener for the cream cheese, and then use strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and kiwi for the topping.
- Experiment with Fruit: Use any kind of fruit you have on hand or that’s at the store in season. Berries are perfect for making beautiful designs. Also try: pomegranate, stone fruit, mango, dragonfruit, mandarin oranges, gooseberries, melons, or cherries.
Hi there little mama! I hope you are doing well. Your fruit pizza is gorgeous, such vibrant colors and yes very symmetrical. Your photos are beautiful! Oh my goodness 20 USD for a 1.5 bag of bing cherries…what is Asia coming to?! Your tropical fruits were a much better selection anyways.We had an equally less patriotic dinner on the 4th, Japanese yakitori but at least I was using the grill… so we had that going for us. Thanks so much for mentioning our Skinny Berry Cheesecake Bar recipe. Take care
I think it would have been hard to take bad photos of that pizza– that colors were so gorgeous. Fruits and veg always make the best pictures. Your Skinny Cheesecake bars too beautiful photos, too.
I try to BBQ and make something American-ish on the 4th every year, but we had company in town and wanted to take her down to the city!
Wow, this looks amazing and something that M would love to help me with! I love the colours of the fruit, it is so appealing. Thank you for sharing and inspiring me! 🙂 #sharewithme x
Thank you Sophie. It did turn out beautiful. Bright summer fruit is stunning all on its own!
That crust! FABULOUS idea to use the dough for this! Yum!
Thanks Rebecca– it turned out great, we love it.
Michelle, I love this fruit pizza!!! and yes, the red dragon fruit is stunning!!! LOVE the color!!!
All about fruit in the summer 🙂
STOP teasing me with this delicious rainbow of sweet and crunchy awesomeness!!!
Fruit… yes! Pizza…yes! Fruit Pizza??? YES YES YES YES. This looks like the perfect summer treat.
Yes, a very fun summer dessert! Really, anytime of year with a change up of the fruit on top.
I love all the colors in your fruit pizza. I can just imagine how yummy it would taste. Wow, that is a lot of money for a bag of cherries.
Yes, the colors of the fruit I picked out this time were stunning! You can’t beat the vibrant purple-red of a dragon fruit 🙂
Such as fantastic idea. Love it 🙂
Thanks Cristie– it turned out great!
What a beautiful fruit pizza! I bet it tastes even more amazing because of the crust!
Yes, the cinnamon crust was great!
I LOVE this idea!! I’ve got a few fun summer events coming up and this is going to be the recipe I make! Thanks so much for posting it!
I’m glad you told me, Chrissie! It sure does make a beautiful dessert to share 🙂
Wow this looks amazing from your styling and food photography to the ingredients that are mouth watering. I am definitely pinning this to test out myself. Great recipe. Thank you so much for linking up to Share With Me. #sharewithme
Thanks Jenny! It turned out more beautiful than expected. It’s always so easy to take good photos of bright fruits and vegetables.
This fruit pizza looks so fun! I don’t think I’ve ever seen dragon fruit with purple flesh before!
The purple/red dragon fruit is gorgeous– surreal looking! Thanks Lisa.
I LOVE this recipe! My kids would totally love to help me with this! It looks so beautiful and SO very tasty! Love dragonfruit 🙂 I have a white flesh plant growing now, and I can’t wait for the fruit!
I actually always have better luck with white dragon fruit when it comes to flavor– they are always sweeter. The red one sure was beautiful though 🙂 Where do you live that you can grow dragon fruit?
This looks so fun and delicious. I bet my grandchildren would love making this. 🙂
It would be so fun to do with kids! There is a link at the bottom of my post to an idea to do it on smaller “mini pizzas.” If you broke up the dough into smaller pieces, your grandchildren could make their own– kids love that!
What a fun recipe to make with the kids. Mine will eat any kind of pizza, as long as it doesn’t have anchovies:) I like that you can use any fresh fruit you like. Cherries are pretty cheap for us right now and I might have to use those because I can’t find a dragonfruit:)
Cherries would be awesome– and I am sure Dragonfruit isn’t easy to find there, just like cherries aren’t easy to get here 🙂 Plus, I am sure it would taste like it traveled 8,000 miles!
This fruit pizza looks gorgeous. I looove the colors! I can’t wait to try this at home.
So beautiful, and so little effort! I hope you enjoy it.
Grilled fish sounds perfect for a Chinese celebration 🙂 I love the beautiful color of the dish! It’s a great way to serve these fresh fruits in summer. The snicker dough is a great idea, so easy!
Yes, it was so easy, for such a pretty dessert.
And grilled fish is our favorite “tourist” thing to do here– we always take out of town guests. So much fun!
Love this! It’s beautiful, and looks delicious. I’m interested to try drangonfruit!
It’s wonderful when you’re in the tropics where it grows– but honestly, don’t bother if you find it for $8 in the States! It’s beautiful, but soft fruit doesn’t travel well 🙂
That is the prettiest looking Fruit pizza I have ever seen. The Dragon fruit just brings so much color and taste to the pizza
Yes, the dragon fruit was a good choice! The color is so vibrant, and it looks so unique.
This sounds so amazing! Yum!!
What a gorgeous dessert, Michelle! Your fruit pizza looks absolutely scrumptious! Sent tons of foodie love your way and featuring you at the #FoodieFriDIY party tonight! 🙂 Happy (almost) Friday!
Thanks for featuring this, Michelle! It did turn out really beautiful– but that was all the fruit! All the colors were so vibrant.
Beautiful and creative, pinning this for later! xo
Thanks Jess– it’s been a fav around here this summer.