Rainbow Fruit Pizza

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This easy fruit pizza recipe is a fun family kitchen adventure! Just top a sugar cookie base with cream cheese frosting and decorate with rows of your favorite fruits.

Prep Time:
25 mins
Chill Time:
30 mins
Bake Time:
15 mins
Decorate Time:
20 mins
Total Time:
1 hrs 30 mins
Servings:
16

Ingredients

  • cup butter, softened

  • ¾ cup sugar

  • 1 teaspoon baking powder

  • ¼ teaspoon salt

  • 1 egg

  • 1 tablespoon milk

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

  • 2 cup all-purpose flour

  • ½ of an 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened

  • 1 8 ounce container whipped dessert topping, thawed

  • 1 cup sliced fresh strawberries

  • 1 11 ounce can mandarin orange sections, drained

  • 3 - 4 canned pineapple rings, cut into fourths

  • 2 kiwifruit, peeled, halved, and thinly sliced

  • 1 cup fresh blueberries

  • ½ cup red seedless grapes, each cut in half

  • 2 small bananas, peeled and thinly sliced

Directions

  1. Put the butter in the large bowl. Beat with the electric mixer on medium speed about 30 seconds or until light and fluffy. Add sugar, baking powder, and salt to butter. Beat with the electric mixer on medium speed until well mixed, stopping the mixer a few times to scrape the bowl with a rubber spatula. Add egg, milk, and vanilla. Beat on medium speed until mixed. Add flour. Beat on low speed until mixed.

  2. Put a sheet of parchment paper on the cookie sheet. Draw the shape of a rainbow with a cloud at each end on the parchment paper, making it 12 inches tall in the center and 5 1/2 inches wide, and leaving a 5 1/2-inch gap between the two "legs" of the rainbow. Flip parchment paper over so you're working on the side without pencil markings. Press and shape the dough onto the rainbow shape (the dough should be about 1/4-inch thick on the rainbow shape). Cover with plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

  3. Turn on the oven to 375°F. Bake about 15 minutes or until edges are light brown and center is set. Turn off oven. Use hot pads to remove cookie sheet from oven. Set cookie sheet on wire rack and cool completely.

  4. Wash the mixer beaters with warm, soapy water. Dry well. Put the cream cheese in the medium bowl. Beat with the electric mixer on medium speed until cream cheese is smooth. Add about half of the whipped topping to the cream cheese. Stir gently until mixed. Use a rubber spatula to gently fold in the remaining whipped topping. Use the offset spatula to spread the cream cheese mixture over the cooled cookie crust.

  5. Arrange strawberry halves in a line along the top edge of the cookie crust, not going down into the clouds. Arrange orange sections under the strawberries. Arrange pineapple pieces under the orange sections. Arrange kiwifruit pieces under the pineapple pieces. Arrange blueberries under the kiwifruit pieces. Arrange grape halves, flat sides down, under the blueberries. Arrange banana slices in the clouds.

    Rainbow Fruit Pizza
    Matthew Clark

Tips

Store pizza in the refrigerator up to 3 days.

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