Patriotic Fruit Pizza

• Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough
• 8 oz Cream Cheese, softened
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 8 oz Whipped Topping, thawed
• 2/3 Cup Sugar
• 8 oz Raspberries
• 8 oz Blueberries
• 16 oz Strawberries, sliced

This recipe is so simple and easy but you do need to divide into two parts. First, you need to make the crust. And then, you need to make the cream cheese filling. So while the crust bakes, you can make the filling mixture. It really doesn’t take long at all and the longest part is just waiting for the crust to cool. To make the crust, you just need to slice the cookie dough into rounds. Then, spread it around on a greased pizza pan and flatten it out evenly. After you have flattened it out, you can then bake it in a preheated oven at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes. You want it to be a nice golden brown when you take it out of the oven.

After you bake your sugar cookie crust for the patriotic fruit pizza, you need to let it cool completely. While it is doing that, you can then make the cream cheese mixture that goes on top of the pizza. Simply mix together the softened cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Then, add in half of the whipped topping and mix well. Fold in the remaining whipped topping and viola! It is done! Once you have mixed it all together, you can then spread about half of the mixture onto the cooled crust. You can save the rest of it to pipe in white stripes for the flag.

Now you just need to assemble the patriotic fruit pizza! I just did the outline in blueberries and then the corner of the flag too. I used a star cookie cutter to place blueberries around the area. That way, when I took it out, you could see a star shape. I then just alternated between strawberries and raspberries for the stripes. After I added in all the fruit, I went back and piped in more of the cream cheese mixture for the white stripes. And that was it! I placed it in the fridge for a few hours before serving and then we enjoyed it as a wonderful after dinner dessert!

After it is chilled, you can then serve it and enjoy it! I absolutely love fruit pizza and can eat it anytime, but I do think it is the perfect summer dessert. If you’re looking for other summery desserts, then be sure to check out this easy lemon cream pie as well. Do y’all like fruit pizza too? If so, what are some of your favorite fruits to put on top? I would love to hear all about it below!