Fruit Pizza Sugar Cookies
This recipe is typically made as one giant round sugar cookie "pizza," but this version gives a twist of individual cookies that are perfectly pre-portioned treats!
Ingredients
Ingredients For The Sugar Cookies
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
Ingredients For The Frosting And Toppings
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- 6 ounces cream cheese softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups fresh fruit strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, mandarins, kiwi or blackberries cut into smaller pieces as needed but leave smaller berries whole
Instructions
Making And Baking The Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line large baking 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.
- 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 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. Use a chopstick to gauge thickness. Cut with a 3 inch round cookie cutter and place onto baking sheets at least 1 inch apart.
- Place all cookies on baking sheets and bake for 9 to 11 minutes. Allow cookies to cool completely before frosting.
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!
Notes
Fruit pizza is often made with store bought sugar cookies dough, but I've included my homemade cutout sugar cookies. You can use store bought sugar cookie dough, just slice and bake according to the directions before letting them cool, frosting and adding the fruit. If you use the tube style cookie dough, you will likely want two tubes for the amount of frosting.
Nutrition
Calories: 247kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 49mg | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 40mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 441IU | Vitamin C: 0.3mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 1mg
Found on: onmykidsplate.com/fruit-pizza-cookies/