Easy Fruit Pizza

This Easy Fruit Pizza is your new go to crowd-pleaser when you want something effortless and delicious. A delightful blend of a buttery sugar cookie crust with a lemon kissed cream cheese layer, all crowned by a rainbow of fresh fruit. It’s a simple, beautiful, and downright irresistible treat.

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This post was originally posted on 6/18/2020 and updated on 7/30/2025.

Fruit Pizza Recipe Ingredients

• Salted Butter
• White Sugar
• Large Eggs
• Pure Vanilla Extract
• Baking Powder
• Baking Soda
• Unbleached All Purpose Flour
• Cream Cheese
• Powdered Sugar
• Milk
• Lemon
• Fresh Fruit: kiwi, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, grapes, cherries, etc...

How To Make Fruit Pizza

1. First, preheat the oven to 350°F and line a 15x10 baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease it.
2. Next, in the bowl of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or with a large bowl and hand beater, cream the softened butter and granulated sugar together until light and fluffy. This will take about 2-3 minutes.
3. Then add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
4. Now add the vanilla extract and beat well.
5. Lastly add the dry ingredients: baking powder, baking soda and one cup of flour. Mix until just incorporated and then continue to add the remaining flour, one cup at a time until it is all fully combined.

6. Once the dough is completely mixed, evenly pat and spread the dough out with your hands onto the prepared pan. Using your hands is much easier and faster than a spatula.
7. Bake the cookie crust in preheated oven on center rack for 15-20 minutes, just until the top is starting to turn golden brown. Let the cookie crust cool completely.
8. While the crust is cooling, wash and slice your fruit and set it aside to air dry.
9. Then prepare the cream cheese spread. In a clean bowl for your stand mixer or your hand beater, cream together the cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth.
10. Now add the milk and lemon zest and beat until silky and creamy.

11. Once the crust is completely cooled, evenly spread the lemon cream cheese over it.
12. Finally, place your fruit all over the spread. I don't use any specific pattern, I like the rustic look. You can place it in a pattern or just start laying it on top. I start with the bigger pieces of fruit and then fill in with the smaller berries. Make it look pretty!
13. Once the fruit is all on, cover and chill in the fridge until ready to serve!

Optional: you can slice the pizza before placing any fruit on. Once sliced you can arrange the fruit on each slice so there is a piece of every fruit on each piece of dessert pizza. I've done both ways, they both work like a charm!

Make it Ahead

This is a great make ahead recipe! Prepare, bake and cool the crust then cover and set it aside. Make the cream cheese spread and prep any sliced fruit you want, and keep in fridge until ready to assemble. Shortly before you need to serve it, assemble the pizza and then slice and serve.

Best Fruit for Easy Fruit Pizza

There are so many options of fruit to use for this easy recipe! Slice the fruit into thin bite size pieces. It slices better and is easier to bite into.

• Stone fruit: peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries or apricots.
• Berries: Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, or blackberries.
• Cantaloupe or Honeydew melons.
• Kiwi
• Pineapple
• Mangos
• Oranges or Clementines.
• Apples or Pears: brush slices with a little lemon juice to prevent browning.
• Canned fruit: peaches, pears, mandarin oranges or pineapple. Drain them well and pat dry with a towel.
• Bananas: slice and put the bananas on right before serving so they don't turn brown before enjoying.

Fruit to avoid: Avoid watermelon. It has too much water in it and it will seep into the cheese spread and create a soggy pizza. Serve it on the side!

Don't miss my recipe for simple Sugar Cookie Bars! It uses the same cookie crust but is covered in a creamy buttercream frosting. Also a perfect crowd pleasing dessert!

Storing Easy Fruit Pizza

Store the fruit pizza in the fridge until ready to serve. Best served within a few hours before the fruit starts to weep too much.

If there are any leftovers, store them covered in the fridge. It will only keep fresh in the fridge for a day or two before the fruit starts to get weepy.

Tips for Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

• Use room temperature ingredients for the cookie crust. This helps the dough come together better and helps ensure even baking.
• Always fluff your flour and then spoon and level to measure it. Doing this will prevent you from adding too much flour to your recipe and ultimately making the bars dry and crumbly.
• Do not overbake the bars. They are done when the edges are just barely browned and the center is no longer glossy.
• Let the cream cheese soften before creaming it. This will help eliminate any lumps.
• This fruit pizza can be customized for any holiday, party, or event. Use the fruit to make it a pretty decoration.
• You can make the pizza round too! Use a 14-16 inch pizza pan, spread the crust out leaving an inch between the crust and pan.
• If you would like a smaller pizza, divide the recipe in half and bake in a 9x13 inch baking pan or a 10-12 inch pizza pan.

More Fruit Dessert Recipes:

• Easy Strawberry Cake
• Creamy Fruit Salad
• Cherry Bars Recipe
• Easy Apple Crisp
• Lemon Bars
• Cherry Crisp
• Strawberry Crumble
• Homemade Peach Cobbler
• Triple Berry Crisp
• Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting