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Easy American Flag Fruit Pizza

June 29, 2021 by Lisa Park + Leave a Comment

American Flag Fruit Pizza

This American Flag Fruit Pizza is an easy fruit pizza dessert that is made from a sugar cookie mix topped with a sweet frosting and fresh berries.

With the Fourth of July coming up, this American Flag Fruit Pizza is sure to be a crowd pleaser during your patriotic celebration.

I made this for my family and they loved how the berries were made to look like a flag. They also loved the taste of the sugar cookie and asked for seconds and thirds to eat.

I’m all about making easy desserts and saving time when I make desserts. And this is an easy dessert to make. The thing that take the longest to do is hull and slice the strawberries. Since there are about 20-25 strawberries to hull and cut for this fruit pizza dessert, this strawberry huller and fruit slicer set is a kitchen tool accessory that is handy to have in the kitchen. It will make putting together this easy fruit pizza recipe even easier.

As people make Fourth of July dessert recipes and come across fruit pizza desserts, here are a few questions people ask.

What is fruit pizza?

Fruit pizza is a fruit dessert which is made like a pizza. It doesn’t have any of the ingredients of a traditional pizza you would make or purchase from a pizza place or restaurant. Instead, it’s a large sugar cookie with sweet frosting and fresh berries on top.

Sugar cookie dough tends to be used best for fruit pizza desserts. It makes a large pan and is great to serve at large holiday gatherings or parties. And it tastes best when served the day it’s made because the fresh fruit isn’t as fresh the next day.

Flag fruit pizza

What is the recipe for fruit pizza?

To make the American flag fruit pizza, first preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Use cooking spray to lightly coat a 12 x 17 baking sheet. And prepare the sugar cookie mix according to the directions on the package.

Easy fruit pizza recipe

Press the sugar cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly golden. Remove from the oven and allow to fully cool.

Patriotic fruit pizza

In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until creamed. Add in the whipped topping, vanilla extract and powdered sugar and mix until creamy. Spread the frosting evenly over the cooled sugar cookie crust.

Fruit pizza dessert

Place blueberries in the top left corner of the sugar cookie crust. I used 48 blueberries (6 rows of 8 blueberries each). Place them close together but leave some space so the white frosting shows through.

Remove the hulls from the strawberries, and cut the strawberries into vertical slices about 1/8 inch thick. This strawberry huller fruit slicer set makes it easy to hull and slice strawberries.

Slice similar-sized strawberries to make the stripes look more uniform. Place the strawberries in the fridge until you are ready to assemble the flag fruit pizza.

Before adding the strawberries to the flag fruit pizza, dab them with a paper towel to remove extra moisture.

Make the red stripes on the pizza by starting at the top and laying strawberries in a row with the slices going in the same direction. Leave about an inch in between each row of strawberries. I made 5 rows on the flag fruit pizza.

Cover the patriotic fruit pizza with plastic wrap and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

How do you make fruit pizza frosting?

The fruit pizza frosting is very easy to make and only takes a few ingredients, which are cream cheese, whipped topping, vanilla extract and powdered sugar.

Start by beating the softened cream cheese in a mixing bowl until creamed. Add in the whipped topping, vanilla extract and powdered sugar and mix until creamy. It’s then ready to spread on the sugar cookie crust.

Fourth of July dessert recipes

Here is the American Flag Fruit Pizza directions below that you can print. Enjoy!

American Flag Fruit Pizza
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Prep time: 30 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 20-25
This American Flag Fruit Pizza is an easy dessert that is made from a sugar cookie mix topped with a sweet frosting and fresh berries.
Ingredients
  • 1 bag (17.5 oz) sugar cookie mix
  • 1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
  • 1 container (8 oz) whipped topping
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup powdered sugar
  • Blueberries, rinsed and dried (I used 48)
  • Strawberries, rinsed and dried (I used 20-25)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use cooking spray to lightly coat a 12 x 17 baking sheet.
  2. Prepare the sugar cookie mix according to the directions on the package.
  3. Press the sugar cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly golden. Remove from oven and allow to fully cool.
  4. Remove the hulls from the strawberries, and cut the strawberries into vertical slices about ⅛ inch thick. Use similar-sized strawberries to make the stripes look more uniform. Place the strawberries in the fridge until you are ready to assemble the flag fruit pizza.
  5. In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until creamed. Add in the whipped topping, vanilla extract and powdered sugar and mix until creamy. Spread the frosting evenly over the cooled sugar cookie crust.
  6. Place blueberries in the top left corner of the sugar cookie crust. I used 48 blueberries (6 rows of 8 blueberries each). Place them close together but leave some space so the white frosting shows through.
  7. Before adding the strawberries to the flag fruit pizza, dab them with a paper towel to remove extra moisture. Make the red stripes on the pizza by starting at the top and laying strawberries in a row with the slices going in the same direction. Leave about an inch in between each row of strawberries. I made 5 rows on the flag fruit pizza.
  8. Cover the flag fruit pizza with plastic wrap and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
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