Fruit Pizza Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Fruit Pizza Cookies are a great dessert idea for groups of people. Each person has a blast customizing their sugar cookie topped with their pick of fresh fruit. Use our cream cheese frosting to make it extra decadent. Such a fun, delightful twist on a fruit pizza!

 

Fruit Pizza with a Twist!

Most of us have had the pleasure of chowing down on a fruit pizza. Our Fruit Pizza Cookies are a fun twist on this classic dessert. I even prefer Fruit Pizza Cookies more than the big ol’ fruit pizza because they can be customized.

Fruit Pizza Cookies: Perfect Recipe for Large Groups of People

I’ve been feeding large groups of people for 15+ years. High school groups, college students, and adult small groups have been in a regular rotation around my dinner table. In fact, I’ve narrowed down 20+ Dinner Ideas that work great for groups of people to help out those who also find themselves hosting regularly.

While I don’t have a roundup of dessert ideas for groups of people, if I did, these fruit pizza cookies would be a top choice. Here’s why:

• First of all, Fruit Pizza Cookies feed A LOT of people. I recently had them out at our Super Bowl party of 20+ people and we still had leftovers.
• Secondly, the are customizable. Each person can pick and choose what goes on their fruit pizza cookie. Some even chose to forego the fruit and just have the cookie with frosting!
• Thirdly, it’s an easy dessert to prep ahead of time. That way you won’t find yourself bogged down with prepping these while people are in your home.

What Ingredients Do You Need for Fruit Pizza Cookies?

There are three primary ingredients you need for a fruit pizza cookie.

1. The Sugar Cookie

While you can make your own from scratch using the recipe below (or try our Cream Cheese Sugar Cookie), you can also just buy pre-baked sugar cookies from your store. This will cost a bit more money but is a huge time saver! You could also prep your sugar cookie dough ahead of time and freeze it using this method.

2. The Cream Cheese Frosting

Using plain vanilla frosting on top of a sugar cookie topped with fruit is just a bit too much sweetness going on. Cream cheese frosting is the perfect ingredient to balance all of that out. It comes together SO easily with just a few ingredients:

• Cream cheese
• Butter
• Powdered Sugar
• Vanilla

You can prep this ahead of time and store in the fridge until you are ready to serve your fruit pizza cookies.

3. Chopped Fruit

Perhaps the most important ingredient in fruit pizza cookies: the fruit! You’ll want to make sure the fruit you choose is chopped up small enough to sprinkle onto a cookie. This is probably the most time-consuming part of making fruit pizza cookies but you can also do this way in advance so it doesn’t feel like such a task. Here are some fruits that work well:

• Kiwi
• Blueberries
• Raspberries
• Strawberries
• Peaches
• Blackberries
• Clementines

If you end up with extra fruit, bonus! Simply freeze it and use it in any of our delicious smoothie recipes.

Need More Meal Ideas for Groups of People?

Here is a great roundup of 20+ Inexpensive Recipe Ideas for Large Groups. Hope you can find something you love!