Rainbow Fruit Pizza Recipe

5 from 4 votes

This rainbow fruit pizza is a beautiful dessert. In this recipe, the most delicious cream cheese frosting is spread over a chewy sugar cookie crust and piled high with fruits in every color of the rainbow!

Prep Time30

Cook Time10

Chilling time1 30

Total Time40

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegetarian

Servings: Servings

Author: Laura

Cost: $8

Equipment

Ingredients

Crust:

½ cup salted butter softened
⅔ cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon fine sea salt

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
¼ cup butter softened
2 cups powdered sugar
½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
⅛ teaspoon sea salt

Fruit

1 cup each of your favorite rainbow colored fruits.
Red: Strawberries raspberries, cherries, red grapes
Orange: oranges/cuties mango, peaches, cantaloupe
Yellow: pineapple banana
Green: Kiwi green grapes, honeydew
Blue/purple: Blackberries blueberries, purple grapes
Unsweetened shredded coconut for the clouds

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Instructions

Make the Sugar Cookie Dough

Cream together butter and granulated sugar in the bowl of your standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until smooth (1 minute)
Add egg & vanilla and beat until combined.
In a small bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda & salt.
Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in your standing mixer and beat until evenly combined.
Remove dough from the bowl and shape it into a circle. Cover with plastic wrap and let chill for 1-2 hours, or overnight.

Roll & Bake the Crust

After the dough has chilled, preheat oven to 350 degrees F and set out a large baking sheet.
Roll out dough between two sheets paper or parchment paper into the shape of an arch.
Remove the top sheet of parchment and cut cloud shapes out by hand.
Transfer the rainbow-shaped cookie on the bottom sheet of parchment paper onto the baking sheet.
Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes, or until the edges are lightly browned and the cookie looks a little puffy.*
Let the cookie cool on the baking pan until it has reached room temperature. To speed up this process you can put it in the freezer, refrigerator or outside on a cold day. Once the cookie is cooled, transfer it to a serving tray/dish before decorating.

Make the Cream Cheese Frosting

While the cookie is baking, make the frosting.
Add room-temperature cream cheese and butter to the bowl of your standing mixer and beat until combined (about 1-2 minutes).
Add vanilla, salt and powdered sugar and beat until combined and smooth. Set aside but do not chill.

Assemble

Spread the cream cheese frosting on top of the cooled cookie until it is evenly covered.
Add the chopped fruit of your choosing in a rainbow design.
Sprinkle coconut on the clouds for a white/textured look.

Chill & Serve

Chill for at least 2 hours before serving.
Cut in long pieces so that each piece has all of the rainbow-colored fruits on it!

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Notes

* Do not over-bake: If you over-bake the cookie and it looses it's shape in the oven, it can be fixed. Simply remove it and immediately re-shape the rainbow/clouds with a metal spoon while it's still hot. It works very well.

Ingredient Substitutions

All-purpose flour: Use 1:1 all purpose gluten-free flour to make the recipe gluten-free.
Salted butter. unsalted butter is a good substitute. Also, vegan butter.
Fruit: Ue your favorite fruit!
Cream cheese frosting. If you'd prefer, use vanilla buttercream frosting (made with only butter), or homemade vanilla frosting (made with shortening and butter).

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