Patriotic Fruit Pizza is made with a simple sugar cookie crust and spread with a sweet cream cheese frosting. It’s then topped with sliced strawberries and fresh blueberries. You can then cut it into squares or small rectangles and there is plenty to feed a crowd. Perfect for any celebratory event or summer get together!
Fourth of July Desserts
Do you make festive holiday desserts?
July 4th is a fun day to bring out all the red, white and blue ingredients, and recipes!
Every year I say I’m going to make a fun holiday dessert for Independence Day and every year I fall short. I either get too busy or I wait too long and don’t have the time to whip something festive up.
I was determined to not miss out this year and came up with the best Patriotic Fruit Pizza!
To be honest, I was craving regular fruit pizza after I saw Pinch of Yum‘s version of it.
Fruit Pizza Crust
The best fruit pizzas always start with a sugar cookie crust. Most recipes call for the premade dough from your dairy section at the grocery store.
It’s totally fine when you are in a pinch.
I’m a huge fan of homemade and with this recipe, you can even feed a crowd with no rolling out, no chilling or no cutting out shapes.
This sugar cookie crust is baked in about 15 minutes! So super quick and I love that it’s baked in cookie sheet.
Fruit Pizza With Cream Cheese
Typically, fruit pizza have a sweetened cream cheese frosting spread between the sugar cookie crust and the fruit placed on top.
This recipe does not include cream cheese. However, it does include sour cream.
If that sounds unusual you to to include that in a frosting, I couldn’t agree with you more. It wasn’t until a few years ago when I first discovered this recipe that I became hooked to the slight tanginess along with the sweetness of the powdered sugar.
But believe me.
It’s divine.
And then don’t forget about the fruit. You really can use pretty much anything.
For this holiday version I used fresh strawberries and fresh blueberries. I sliced each strawberry into 3 slices.
There are the three proponents to this amazing recipe! Keep scrolling to see how I put it all together.
How To Make A Flag Dessert
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a standing mixer or large bowl, cream together butter, oil, granulated sugar and powdered sugar for 2 minutes on medium speed.
- Add in milk and eggs and mix until well combined.
- In a separate medium bowl whisk together baking powder, cream of tartar salt and flour.
- Slowly add in a little flour mixture while beating and mix until just combined. Do not over beat.
- Lightly spray a standard baking sheet with oil.
- Pour batter into the baking sheet and evenly spread out.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool 20 minutes before frosting.
- In a standing mixer or large bowl cream together butter and sour cream until smooth.
- Slowly add in the powdered sugar until completely incorporated.
- Pour in 1 TBSP at a time of milk until consistency is about the same as thick cake batter.
- Evenly spread frosting over sugar cookie crust.
- Slice strawberries into 3-4 slices, depending on the size of the strawberry.
- Starting on the long edge of the pizza, layer the sliced of strawberry making sure they are all in the same direction.
- Do the same along the opposite side.
- Evenly space out two more strips of sliced strawberries in between the two lines on the outside crust.
- Fill in between the strawberry rows with blueberries.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes before cutting into 30 squares.
- This can be chilled for up to 2 days before serving. Cover with plastic wrap if you chill it longer than 30 minutes.
Give these other recipes a try for your summer parties!
- Classic Potato Salad
- Summer Fruit Salad
- Artichoke Pasta Salad
- Patriotic Sugar Cookie Bars
- Chick-fil-a Copy Cat Frosted Key Lime
Patriotic Fruit Pizza Recipe
Patriotic Fruit Pizza
Ingredients
FOR CRUST
- 1 Cup Butter Softened
- 3/4 Cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Cup Powdered Sugar
- 2 TBSP Milk
- 2 Large Eggs
- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar
- 1/2 tsp Kosher Salt
- 4 Cups All Purpose Flour
FOR FROSTING
- 1/2 Cup Butter Softened
- 1/2 Cup Sour Cream
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- 5 Cups Powdered Sugar
- 4 TBSP Milk
- 12 oz Fresh Strawberries Washed and Hulled
- 16 oz Fresh Blueberries
Instructions
FOR CRUST
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a standing mixer or large bowl, cream together butter, oil,
granulated sugar and powdered sugar for 2 minutes on medium speed. - Add in milk and eggs and mix until well combined.
- In a separate medium bowl whisk together baking powder, cream of tartar salt and flour.
- Slowly add in a little flour mixture while beating and mix until just combined. Do not over beat.
- Lightly spray a standard baking sheet with oil.
- Pour batter into the baking sheet and evenly spread out.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes and an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool 20 minutes before frosting.
FOR FROSTING
- In a standing mixer or large bowl cream together butter and sour cream until smooth.
- Slowly add in the powdered sugar until completely incorporated.
- Pour in 1 TBSP at a time of milk until consistency is about the same as thick cake batter.
- Evenly spread frosting over sugar cookie crust.
- Slice strawberries into 3-4 slices, depending on the size of the strawberry.
- Starting on the long edge of the pizza, layer the sliced of strawberry making sure they are all in the same direction.
- Do the same along the opposite side.
- Evenly space out two more strips of sliced strawberries in between the two lines on the outside crust.
- Fill in between the strawberry rows with blueberries.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes before cutting into 30 squares.
- This can be chilled for up to 2 days before serving. Cover with plastic wrap if you chill it longer than 30 minutes.
