Make this easy fruit pizza for a festive, summery dessert. It’s an attractive and memorable centerpiece for BBQs, Fourth of July parties, and warm-weather gatherings.
This colorful fruit pizza features a soft sugar-cookie base, a light whipped mascarpone cream (a fresher alternative to cream cheese frosting), and an assortment of fresh fruit. It’s simple to assemble and you can decorate it with whatever fruit you have available.
Recipe Tip
Fruit pizzas make a lovely birthday “cake” — you can spell ages or messages using colorful fruit.
If you enjoy fruit with chocolate, try topping this pizza with chocolate-covered grapes or chocolate-covered blueberries for a decadent twist.
Fruit Pizza Ingredients
See the recipe card below for exact measurements and full details.
- Fresh fruit: I used strawberries, mango, blueberries, kiwi, and green grapes. Other good options include blackberries, clementines, peaches, pears, apples, and physalis.
- Cookie base: cane sugar, flour, room temperature butter, egg, baking powder, and sea salt for a simple sugar-cookie dough.
- Mascarpone cream: mascarpone, whipping cream, vanilla paste, and maple syrup for a light, fluffy topping that complements the fruit.
How to Make a Fruit Pizza
- Prepare the cookie dough: Mix sugar, egg, and softened butter until combined. Stir in flour, baking powder, and sea salt. Cover and chill the dough for 20–30 minutes so it firms up.
- Make the mascarpone cream: In a chilled bowl, whip mascarpone and vanilla for about 60 seconds. Add cold whipping cream and whip to soft peaks, then fold in the maple syrup.
- Bake the crust: Press the chilled dough into a lined baking tin or pizza pan. Bake at 170°C (340°F) for about 20 minutes, until light golden. Let cool completely.
- Assemble: Spread a 1–2 cm layer of mascarpone cream on the cooled cookie (leaving a small border). Arrange the dried, sliced fruit on top in your desired pattern and garnish with fresh basil.
Tips for Success
Cream
- Keep the mixing bowl and whipping cream cold for maximum volume.
- Stop whipping when the cream forms soft peaks to avoid a grainy texture.
Cookie base
- Wet your hands lightly to spread the sticky dough evenly in the pan.
- Bake the sugar cookie just until lightly golden so it remains soft and not crumbly.
- Avoid piling on too much cream or fruit, which can overwhelm the base.
Fruit
- Pat sliced fruit dry on paper towels before arranging to prevent juices from seeping into the cream.
- Slice strawberries and mango thinly so they sit lightly on the cream.
Possible Variations
- Fruit: Use any fresh fruit for the best flavor. If using canned fruit, rinse off syrup and dry before using.
- Base: Swap the cookie crust for a store-bought pie crust, graham-cracker crust, brownie, or cookie crust.
- Filling: Try whipped cream, melted chocolate, jam, lemon curd, cream cheese frosting, or buttercream instead of mascarpone cream.
FAQs
Yes—store-bought cookie dough works fine. Puff pastry also makes a tasty alternative: shape into a round disc, bake according to package directions, dust with powdered sugar, then top with cream and fruit.
You can prepare the mascarpone cream and cookie base 4–5 hours ahead. Store the cream in the fridge and keep the cooled cookie wrapped. Slice the fruit and assemble the pizza 1–2 hours before serving for best results.
Brush the fruit with a light glaze made from 2 heaped tablespoons of apricot, strawberry, or peach jam mixed with 2 tablespoons of water. Warm until melted, strain, and gently brush over the fruit to seal and preserve it.
Yes. Center the pizza with a berry, place fruit around the outer edge and work inward in concentric rings, or arrange fruit randomly for a rustic look. Decorating is flexible and fun—great for involving kids or creating a birthday design using fruit.
Serve the extra mascarpone cream in a bowl alongside the pizza for guests to add more, or use it as a dip for a fruit platter or to top hot chocolate.
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Fruit Pizza
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Equipment
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lined baking tin
Ingredients
Cookie crust
- 100 grams cane sugar
- 1 egg
- 115 grams butter, softened
- 150 grams flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
Mascarpone cream
- 250 ml whipping cream 1 cup
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 125 grams mascarpone
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
Fruit topping
- 6 strawberries, large, thinly sliced
- 1/2 mango, peeled, sliced
- 2 kiwis, peeled, sliced
- 3 green grapes, halved
- 7 blueberries
- basil, fresh, to garnish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (340°F).
- Make the sugar-cookie crust: combine sugar, egg, and softened butter until combined.
- Add flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix until the dough comes together; it will be slightly sticky.
- Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 20–25 minutes to firm up.
- While the dough chills, prepare the mascarpone cream: whip mascarpone and vanilla in a chilled bowl for about 60 seconds.
- Add cold whipping cream and beat until soft peaks form, then fold in maple syrup.
- Remove the dough from the fridge, press it into a lined round baking tin, wetting your hands slightly to prevent sticking.
- Bake for about 20 minutes, until light golden. Allow the base to cool completely.
- Spread the mascarpone cream over the cooled cookie base to about 1–2 cm (0.5–1 inch) thick, leaving a small border.
- Dry sliced fruit on paper towels so excess juice doesn’t seep into the cream, then arrange the fruit decoratively on top.
- For the arrangement shown: place a blueberry in the center, arrange halved grapes like a flower, add kiwi slices between grapes, place strawberry slices around the outer edge, then layer mango slices in a rose pattern between strawberries and kiwi. Finish with extra blueberries and basil leaves.
- Serve and enjoy.
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Nutrition
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Carbohydrates: 36g
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Protein: 5g
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Fat: 31g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated and should be used as an approximation.
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