A few weeks ago on a Sunday night, my family and I had the privilege of eating with some missionaries that were reporting at our church. They had five young adult children compared to our five young children, so we had a ready-made group of 14 people, plus we invited another couple to eat with us. I also just made this dessert pizza this past Sunday night when we had 30+ people come to our house after the evening service. My first pictures of the finished pizza were nowhere to be found, so I made the dessert again–and I was finally able to finish this post!
I love this dessert in the summertime as it is so colorful and because of the availability of different kinds of fruit. As you can see, on the cookie pizza, I put strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, kiwi, peach, and grapes. You could also do just strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries and do a red, white, and blue dessert pizza for the Fourth of July.
On Sunday, I just used Aldi’s refrigerated sugar cookie dough. The only problem with the cookie dough from Aldis is that it comes in a 16 ounce size, and the recipe called for a 20 ounce tube of dough for a 12″ pizza pan. So I bought 2 packages and used both on a 16″ pan. I knew we had a lot of people, so it was fine for me to make a bigger cookie pizza. If you run into the same problem, and you want to make a 12″ cookie pizza; just use one-fourth of the second package for the cookie pizzas, and either freeze or bake as cookies the rest.
I used two 16 ounce packages for a 16″ pan.
Since my pizza pan has holes in the bottom of the pan, I lined it with parchment paper. I spread the dough over the entire pan, leaving 1″ empty around the edge. This would also work for any pizza pan if you want to transfer the big cookie to a prettier platter. Since I have no 16″ platter, I left it on the pizza pan and cut off the excess parchment paper after the cookie had been baked.
Press the dough down on the pan.
Sugar cookie crust is done!
Once the cookie was done, I allowed it to cool and then spread it with cool whip (one 8 ounce container was sufficient for the 16″ pan).
Let cool, and spread cool whip on the top.
The last step is putting the fruit on top! The only fruit that I did not cut were the blueberries and raspberries. I cut even the grapes in half. I placed the fruit on at 5:00 p.m., and we ate it round 7:45 p.m. The fruit still looked great, but I did not use any fruit that changed colors when exposed to air.
When it was time to eat, I just took my pizza cutter and cut the dessert pizza into triangle shapes of “pizza!”
It is really simple to make, and it goes over very well with guests as there is probably at least one kind of fruit that they like on the dessert pizza! A couple variations that you could try is to use chocolate chip cookie dough instead of sugar cookie dough, or you could try a cream cheese light topping instead of cool whip. Here is the recipe I used!
- 1 pkg. 20 ounces refrigerated cookie dough, any flavor
- 3 cups thawed cool whip
- 2 cups assorted fruit grapes, bananas, kiwi, strawberries, peach slices, pineapple--crushed or use assorted candies or chopped candy bars
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Press dough evenly into a 12" pizza pan. I left an inch around the outside edge so that the dough would have room to spread.
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Bake 12-15 minutes at 350° or until golden brown.
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Cool in pan on wire rack. Place cookie crust on serving plate. Spread whipped topping on cookie crust. Garnish with fruit. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready to serve.
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Serves 12.
Oh YUM! This looks so delicious. You’re right-it looks so colorful with all the different fruits. I’d have a hard time not trying some of each one!
It’s a perfect summertime dessert that’s a little healthy too! And not too hard to make.
This looks so good! I would probably need to buy extra fruit though, because I would be snacking while making this.
Well, when you get about 6 different kinds of fruit to put on it, there’s plenty for snacking! The extra fruit goes fast in our house!
This looks so yummy. I will have to make it sometime. I will probably use a make ahead cookie dough. Have you ever tried one of those? They are super easy!
I had thought about making my own dough, but usually my sugar cookie dough I have to add flour to when I roll it out, so I didn’t know if it would be the right consistency. Do you have a recipe for make ahead cookie dough? I have never tried it, but I would love to! I was at a time crunch when I made the pizza, but anything that is homemade and cheaper, I would love to try!
Sugar cookie dough? Cool whip? Fruit so I can pretend it’s healthy? Yes, yes, yes!
We say anything that has fruit is healthy in this house! (Ha!)
I am definitely going to try this. It looks yummy.
I hope you like it!
I. Love. Dessert. Pizza!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you make yours the same way or is it different? Always love hearing about new desserts!
I love how visually appealing this is! Now I desperately want a slice or five…
I think that’s one reason I like it so much–it’s pretty and summery!
I am in love with this recipe. For some reason gram cracker crust sounds awesome for this too.
Hmm–I’m sure it would taste good, but it would be more crumbly. With the cookie crust, you can actually hold it in your hand if you want to.
Oh my goodness, that looks really really good. Wish I had some right now!
I do enjoy it! It’s a dessert you don’t want sitting around for a couple of days though as the fruit starts go go bad.
That dessert looks absolutely delicious, and it seems relatively easy to make. I’ll be making it soon for my kids!
Great! It is easy to make–the most time consuming part is putting the fruit on. I hope your kids enjoy it!
Very Yummy! Thanks for sharing this awesome idea. I know what I will do this arvo 🙂 BTW: I like the format in which you are presenting your recipes!
Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate you stopping by and looking at this dessert pizza.
Looks really amazing!
Thanks! This is an easy dessert to get a good presentation with every time!
Looks so delicious! I Love dessert pizza.
I only have a couple recipes–this is my only one with fruit. I’ll have to look for more as they really do look nice, are rather simple, and feed a crowd!