4th of July Fruit Pizza
This Glazed Fruit Pizza recipe has a light and delicate sugar cookie dough crust that's like a shortbread cookie. We love this fruit dessert pizza because it is so light and refreshing, but it is still sweet enough for summer desserts!
Ingredients
- Easy Fruit Pizza Crust Ingredients:
- 1 cup flour
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- ½ cup 1 stick, butter, cold and cut into cubes
- Easy Fruit Pizza Filling Ingredients:
- 1 brick 8 oz, cream cheese, softened
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 mandarin oranges skins removed and segments separated, OR use 1 small can, mandarin oranges, drained
- 3 kiwifruit skin removed and cut into slices
- 1 small can 8 oz, pineapple slices, juice drained and reserved and slices cut into 8 pieces each
- 1 small jar 12 oz, maraschino cherries, drained
- Easy Fruit Pizza Glaze Ingredients:
- pineapple juice reserved from can
- water
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ¼ cup cornstarch
Instructions
- Easy Fruit Pizza Crust Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Add flour and powdered sugar together in a mixing bowl.
- Add butter and used a pastry blender to cut in the butter. This takes a little time. And will give you an arm workout! Dough will seem like it's not coming together but you can easily press it into the pan.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until just browned. Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Easy Fruit Pizza Filling Directions:
- Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together with a mixer. Spread over crust. Top with fresh fruit.
- Easy Fruit Pizza Glaze Directions:
- Add pineapple juice to a 1 cup measuring cup. Add water to fill to 1 cup of liquid. Add cornstarch, sugar and lemon juice and mix well. Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly until boiling on the edges. Continue to stir for 1 minute. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Drizzle over top of fruit.
- Cut your Easy Fruit Pizza into slices and serve or refrigerate, covered before serving. Store any leftovers covered in the refrigerator.