These fruit pizza cookies are the kind of easy, colorful treat that kids go wild for, and let’s be honest, grown-ups usually grab two. They’re perfect for potlucks, summer BBQs, or any night you want a warm weather dessert to feel a little more fun.

Fruit pizza cookie frosted and topped with diced frest fruit from the side on a wire rack with more cookies in the background.

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Why We Love Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies

Perfect Warm Weather Treat – This soft sugar cookie takes advantage of all the ripe fruit you find in the spring and summer and packs it into a fun cookie with sugar cookie crust and a cream cheese frosting.
Individually Portioned – Single portions like these fruit pizza sugar cookies work great for a potluck, especially when everyone comes and snag a second treat without a napkin or plate!
Fun To Make With The Kids – If your kids like cream cheese frosting and you’ve got fruit to use up, this mini fruit pizza recipe you need. These fruit pizza cookies are easy to bake, even easier to decorate, and just messy enough to make a good memory. I’ve included a homemade sugar cookie, but you could easily use a store bought sugar cookie dough.

Fruit pizza is usually a hit, and I’ve made it a few different ways. This all strawberry fruit pizza is a larger version, but I’ve also make fruit pizza cheesecake sugar cookie cups in mini size. For Fourth of July I’ve also made an American flag fruit pizza that looked so cute on the table! Or try the apple crisp dessert pizza for another twist.

Ingredients For Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

Top-down view of labeled baking ingredients: vanilla extract, butter, fruit, powdered sugar, sugar, cream cheese, flour, salt, and eggs arranged on a white surface.

Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements and directions below in the recipe card.

Ingredients For The Sugar Cookies

unsalted butter
sugar
large eggs
vanilla extract
flour
salt

Ingredients For The Frosting and Toppings

unsalted butter (softened)
cream cheese (softened)
powdered sugar
vanilla
fresh fruit – strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, mandarins, kiwi, or blackberries (cut into smaller pieces as needed, but leave the smaller berries like blueberries whole)

How To Make Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies

Making And Baking The Cookies

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line cookie sheet pans with parchment paper.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and 1 cup of sugar for 2 to 3 minutes with a stand mixer on low-medium. In a small bowl crack the eggs and beat with a fork or a whisk. Add the eggs and vanilla to the butter and sugar mixture, then mix until well blended.

A metal mixing bowl with creamed butter and sugar, next to a small bowl of vanilla extract, and tow eggs for fruit pizza cookies.

A metal mixing bowl with creamed butter and sugar mixed with vanilla and egg with bowls of flour and salt nearby.

To your wet mixture add the flour and scatter the salt around the bowl. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients well for a few minutes with a strong wooden spoon or a stand mixer on low and then medium until a dough forms. (Don’t try mixing this part of the cookie dough with a hand mixer, the dough is very thick and may break your mixer! Instead use a thick wooden spoon for this step if you have a hand mixer.)
Lightly flour the counter and a rolling pin, keeping a small pile of flour at the edge of your workspace. Roll out your dough to a thickness of about ⅜ of an inch adding dustings of flour as needed. You can use a chopstick to gauge thickness. Cut with a 3 inch round cookie cutter and place onto baking sheets at least 1 inch apart.

Rolled out sugar cookie dough cutting into cookies for fruit pizza cookies.

A baking sheet lined with parchment paper holding 12 raw sugar cookies for fruit pizza.

Place all cookies on baking sheets and bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Allow cookies to cool completely before frosting.

Round sugar cookies layered on a wire cooling rack from above for fruit pizza cookies.

Making The Frosting And Toppings

Place butter and cream cheese in a large mixing bowl. Cream butter on medium speed for 4 to 5 minutes with an electric mixer. Add vanilla and powdered sugar, then mix for one more minute until fully mixed.
Spread about 2 tablespoons of frosting on each cookie to frost. Top each cookie with a mix of fruit pieces and enjoy!

A cooling rack with twelve sugar cookies, eight frosted and four plain with a bowl of fruit nearby for fruit pizza cookies.

A cooling rack with fruit pizza sugar cookies, some topped with fruit and some with white frosting, surrounded by bowls of fruit on a marble counter.

Variation Ideas

Vary The Fruit – I’ve made these a bunch of times and I always grab whatever fruit looks best. While a rainbow of colors looks pretty, having fresh fruit matters. Try berries like strawberries, blueberries or blackberries. Cherries are delicious if you remove the pit, and peach can also be tasty. I like adding some kiwi because I like a mix of colorful fruit on top.

I also use mandarin oranges from a fruit cup combined with other fruit, just drain them and dry them well with paper towels. I’ve not tried other canned fruit like peaches and pears.

Try Pie Filling – While I love the fresh fruit, a can of pie filling can also be spooned onto the cookie base. Try cherry or blueberry filling!

Round fruit pizza sugar cookies topped with frosting and fruit from overhead on a counter after decorating with a bowl of fresh fruit nearby.

Can You Make These Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies Ahead Of Time?

I usually make fruit pizza cookies the day before, but I wait to add the fruit to the top until right before we go. This helps to make sure that if the fruit is watery, it doesn’t make the cookies watery. I’ll chop all the fruit ahead of time and spoon it onto the cookies right before we leave.

Can You Freese Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies?

The base cutout sugar cookie recipe actually freezes beautifully on its own, I’ve made those weeks in advance unfrosted and froze them in a freezer zip-top bag with parchment paper in between the layers. Then I pull the cookies out the night before I frost them.

I don’t recommend freezing the individual cookies after adding the fruit. You can frost the cookies and freeze them, but the cookies shouldn’t be topped with fresh fruit until right before serving. When the fruit defrosts it will cause the cookies to become soggy.

How Long Will Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies Last?

Expect these cookies to last for about 2-3 days when stored in the refrigerator in a covered, airtight container. How long they last will depend partially on how watery the fruit you have is.