This strawberry pizza has a sweet buttery sugar cookie crust topped with cream cheese frosting then finished with fresh glazed strawberries for the sweetest dessert. Strawberry pizza is great for a party or for strawberry season, and is the best cross between a strawberry pie and fruit pizza!

A close up of the corner of a sheet pan full of strawberry pizza dessert with glazed strawberries on top of a frosting and a sugar cookie base on a counter.

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Why We Love Strawberry Pizza

Perfect For Summer Strawberries – This dessert is simply delicious with sweet strawberries and showcases them in the best way! The cream cheese frosting paired with the glazed strawberries is the best part!
Great For Parties– Strawberry fruit pizza is a big hit at a spring or summer party, the pieces will disappear fast! Make this for summer BBQs, pool parties, Fourth of July, baby showers, graduations, summer parties, or just for a delicious dessert.
Semi-Homemade Recipe– We use a few shortcuts to make this an easier semi-homemade recipe. This deliciously sweet strawberry dessert pizza is a little easier to make than strawberry pie or strawberry tart but with a similar taste. If you love a good strawberry flavor, try the rich and chewy strawberry brownies (made with cake mix) too!

Feeling the fruit pizza mood? I’ve accidentally created a whole fruit pizza situation. There’s the Flag Fruit Pizza for your summer bbq, Fruit Pizza Cookies for your cookie-loving side, and the Cheesecake Sugar Cookie Cups for… well, your “I’ll just have one more bite” side of your brain!

Ingredients For Strawberry Pizza

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

For The Sugar Cookie Crust

sugar cookie dough softened, store bought pre-made cookie dough

For The Cream Cheese Frosting

cream cheese softened, I recommend full fat cream cheese
butter softened, salted
powdered sugar also known as confectioners’ sugar
vanilla extract

A container of premade cream cheese frosting can be substituted to save time for the frosting in this recipe if you prefer. You’ll need about a cup and a half of frosting. Most store bought frosting is 16 ounces or two cups. You can use all 16 ounces and add a thicker layer of frosting if you prefer.

For The Strawberry Layer

fresh strawberries divided
water
sugar – white, granulate sugar
strawberry gelatin powdered mix like strawberry JELLO, but a store brand works just fine too
cornstarch

If you love sweet fruit desserts try the fruit pizza mini cookie cups, which is a fruit pizza recipe but in mini bite-size treats. Or try the strawberry shortcake cupcakes or cream cheese fruit dip, both of which are crowd-pleasers!

How To Make Strawberry Pizza

Making The Sugar Cookie Crust

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a 10 x 15 inch baking sheet pan (cookie sheet with a rim) with parchment paper or spray lightly with cooking oil.
Rub a teaspoon of oil onto your hands and spread cookie dough out evenly on the greased pan. This will keep the dough from sticking and make it easier to spread. It will feel like there isn’t quite enough dough, but trust the process and keep working it into the pan until it is spread evenly.

Sugar cookie dough pressed into a sheet pan from overhead.

Bake cookie dough for 17-18 minutes or until the crust just starts to turn a light golden brown around the edges. Let the cookie cool on the pan, about 15 minutes.

Making The Cream Cheese Layer

Add the cream cheese and butter to a mixing bowl. Cream together with an electric mixer until smooth. Add a cup of the powdered sugar and the vanilla, then mix with an electric mixer until the cream cheese mixture is smooth. Add the second cup of powdered sugar to the mixture and again mix until fully smooth.
Spread the cream cheese frosting evenly on the cooled crust once the cookie is cool to the touch.

Cream cheese frosting being spread over baked sugar cookie on a sheet pan.

Making The Berries Layer

Dice up four medium strawberries (about 1/2 cup) diced strawberries) and place them in a large bowl, removing the stems. Smash the strawberries with a large spoon or the back of a measuring cup. Then set to the side.

Strawberries being diced and placed in a bowl on a cutting board form overhead on a counter.

Slice the remaining strawberries the longest direction in slices that about ¼ inch thick. Trim the stems away as you slice. Set the sliced strawberries to the side.
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add gelatin, water, sugar, cornstarch and smashed strawberries. Cook the strawberries stirring continuously for about 5 minutes until a thick glaze forms. Remove the strawberry glaze from the heat and cool for about 15 minutes until it is no longer hot, but still a little warm so it spreads easily.

Diced mashed strawberries being mixed in a pan with sugar and strawberry gelatin.

Thick strawberry sauce being lifted from the pan with a wooden spoon.

Gently add a thin layer of the strawberry glaze to the cream cheese frosting on top of the cookie crust. Add sliced strawberries to the strawberry sauce a few at a time, then layer strawberries on top of the frosting in rows. Spoon any remaining glaze over all the strawberries.

Strawberry glaze spread on top of the cream cheese frosting on sugar cookie filling a sheet pan from overhead.

Glazed strawberries being layered over strawberry glaze, cream cheese frosting and sugar cookie on a sheet pan from overhead.

Place the entire pan in the fridge for 20 minutes to chill or until the sauce fully sets. Then slice and enjoy!

Finished strawberry pizza on a sheet pan topped with glazed strawberries from overhead on a counter after chilled.

Can I Prep Strawberry Pizza Ahead Of Time?

Yes, you can make this strawberry pizza the night before or up to 24 hours in advance and store covered in the refrigerator.

Have extra strawberries? Try these strawberry white chocolate chip cookies, fresh strawberry cobbler or strawberry jello poke cake.

Variation Ideas

Try Other Flavors Of Fruit – I haven’t tried swapping out the fruit, but I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t make another flavor as long as you swap out the gelatin flavor to a flavor that matches or at least tastes good together (like raspberry jello with blueberries would still taste great.)

Keep in mind if the color of the JELL-O may also effect the color of the glaze, though you could of course add food coloring if you prefer. Try raspberry, blackberry, blueberry, peach, or even mix a couple flavors of berries.

Make A Gluten Free Cookie Crust – I have made my cutout sugar cookie recipe using gluten free flour for a friend with a gluten intolerance and they came out delicious. Swap out a high quality gluten free flour cup for cup for regular flour, and you can use it as the base of this recipe. Most Jello is naturally gluten free, though I have found if I am making a recipe for a friend with an intolerance it’s always best just to ask first if their are any allergy concerns.

Can I Use Frozen Strawberries?

Frozen strawberries tend to get way too mushy on this pizza and can make the sugar cookie mushy. Fresh strawberries will have a better texture when you layer the slices, I don’t recommend using frozen strawberries.

A square slice of strawberry pizza cookie angled on a sheet pan covered in glazed strawberries with more pieces on the pan in the background on a counter.

Can I Freeze Strawberry Pizza?

This easy strawberry pizza recipe does not freeze well. The strawberries tend to get too mushy and the liquid can make the cookie crust soggy. I recommend enjoying this dessert fresh.