Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza is an easy fruit pizza that tastes amazing and will be your favorite Fourth of July dessert. Made with a Pillsbury sugar cookie crust, fresh fruit, powdered sugar, lime and cream cheese, this Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza is the perfect patriotic dessert to show off your Ameican pride!
One of my favorite go-to comfort foods in this life has to be an extra cheese pizza from my neighborhood pizza joint. Unfortunently, pizza is not exactly figure friendly.. or so my jeans tell me. Imagine my (ridiculous!) level of happiness to find that there are actually healthy pizza options that do not taste like cardboard or the floor of your car. Let’s take a minute to talk about fruit pizzas and more specifically, Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza.
Wh….? Wait, what??? Fruit pizza? What the heck is a fruit pizza and since the word ‘fruit’ is in the title…. um …. does this make it a healthy fruit pizza???
Word.
Fruit pizza are apparently not a new thing and I was completely inspired when I found Pillsburys Easy Fruit Pizza recipe. How pretty and easy to make and what a great healthy summer snack to nosh on or serve up at summer parties and barbeques. Surprisingly, there is a pretty broad range from healthy fruit pizzas to maybe not so healthy but still so very tasty fruit pizzas. Some of these delicious fruit pizzas are decorated with every fresh fruit under the rainbow and some are very specific with their intention, such as this Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza. Summer is hot and nasty down here in Florida and when it’s time to get together with friends and family for Memorial Day BBQs and Fourth of July celebrations, no one wants to be loading up and shoving heavy foods down their gullets in 106 degree weather. Trust me when I say this is going to be your new favorite Memorial Day and Fourth of July dessert. When it comes to red, white and blue foods you really can never go wrong with a Fourth of July dessert staring fresh fruit. Fresh fruit is always a safe summer picnic food to bring so what better way to serve up that delicious fresh red, white and blue fruit than on a chewy Pillsbury sugar cookie crust with a little powdered sugar, cream cheese and the secret ingredient … lime zest!!!
Lime zest? Oh yes… lime zest, my friends. We all know the flavor profile of fresh fruit and cream cheese, am I right? Delicious, tasty but no surprizes there and not overly exciting, is it? Yeah … throw some lime zest into the mix and now we have a party. Lime juice and honey is how my hubby likes to indulge when I bring home fresh fruit for munching and adding a bit of lime zest to the cream cheese really takes this Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza to the ultimate level of fruit pizza-ness. Seriously!! Believe me when I tell you that from now until the end of time, every year when summer rolls around you will be asked … demanded … to bring everyones favorite red, white and blue dessert to every July 4th party, every Memorial Day BBQ, every time someone just wants to lay out by their pool. EVERY. TIME.
Am I over-exagerating when I say this is the greatest patriotic dessert the world has ever seen?… meh … maybe? OR MAYBE NOT!!!! When I say you are bringing the very best summer party dessert every time with that lime cream cheese slathered all over that chewy sugar cookie crust and then topped with blueberries, strawberries and raspberries, I am not even joking!!!
This is the part where I have to say that I think fresh raspberries are jerks (#assholes) and that is why I only have a tiny little circle of them on this Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza. I don’t care when I buy them, where I buy them, how carefully I inspect the carton, how fast I drive home from buying them… every time I buy fresh raspberries, I get like 9 of them that are not icky and gross. I really don’t like fresh raspberries for that reason and I just can’t understand why we can’t be friends.
Moving on ….
HOW DO YOU MAKE RED WHITE AND BLUE FRUIT PIZZA?
This one moves fast so keep up 🙂 To make this Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza, pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees and then let’s start with your Pillsbury sugar cookie crust. Spray a bit of non-stick spray on a 12″ pizza pan and then add a sheet of parchment paper traced to fit the pizza pan shape and then spray the parchement paper with more of the non-stick spray. The spray on the bottom keeps your parchment paper from sliding around too much while you prepare the crust and the spray on top keeps the sugar cookie crust from sticking.
Open up your roll of sugar cookie dough and start tearing off chunks of the raw cookie dough (don’t eat any!) and dropping them on the pan until you have it all broken up. Using your hands, lightly and evenly press the cookie dough into the pan to make the crust.
Bake for 12-14 minutes until lightly browned, remove and set aside to cool completely. While your crust is cooling, make your cream cheese frosting. Add cream cheese in a large mixing bowl with the room temperature butter and cream until smooth and fluffy. Add in sifted powdered sugar, a dash of salt, vanilla extract and the zest of one lime. Mix together until well incorporated and then move the refrigerator while your crust continues to cool.
Once your sugar cookie crust has cooled completely, spread your cream cheese frosting over your crust and then decorate with fresh blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. Serve immediatly and refrigerate any leftovers.
This Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza is also super easy to prepare a day in advance. The day before you need it, cook the crust, let it cool and then keep it covered at room temperature and then mix up the cream cheese frosting and keep that covered in the refrigerator. The next day you have most of your work already done for you 🙂
Looking for more red, white and blue desserts and drinks? Check out a few of my favorites below.
- Red White and Blue Patriotic Cupcakes
- 4th of July Cake Mix Whoopie Pies
- Bomb Pop Cocktail
- Red White and Blue Cheesecake Bars
Enjoy!
RED WHITE AND BLUE FRUIT PIZZA
Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza
Ingredients
- 16.5 ounce roll of refrigerated Pillsbury sugar cookie dough
- 6 ounces cream cheese .. room temperature
- 2 tablespoons butter .. room temperature
- 1-1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 1-2 tablespoons whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 lime .. zest only
- dash of salt
- 1 pint fresh blueberries
- 1 flat fresh strawberries
- 1/2 pint fresh raspberries
Instructions
- To make this Red White and Blue Fruit Pizza, pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees and then let's start with your Pillsbury sugar cookie crust. Spray a bit of non-stick spray on a 12" pizza pan and then add a sheet of parchment paper traced to fit the pizza pan shape and then spray the parchement paper with more of the non-stick spray. The spray on the bottom keeps your parchment paper from sliding around too much while you prepare the crust and the spray on top keeps the sugar cookie crust from sticking. Open up your roll of sugar cookie dough and start tearing off chunks of the raw cookie dough and dropping them on the pan until you have it all broken up. Using your hands, lightly and evenly press the cookie dough into the pan to make the crust. Bake for 12-14 minutes until lightly browned, remove and set aside to cool completely.
- While your crust is cooling, make your cream cheese frosting. Add cream cheese in a large mixing bowl with the room temperature butter and cream until smooth and fluffy. Add in sifted powdered sugar, a dash of salt, milk, vanilla extract and the zest of one lime. Mix together until well incorporated and then move the refrigerator while your crust continues to cool.
- Once your sugar cookie crust has cooled completely, spread your cream cheese frosting over your crust and then decorate with fresh blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. Serve immediatly and refrigerate any leftovers.
Notes
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