Fruit Pizza For Easter
Your kids will love making this easy fruit pizza recipe with a sugar cookie base and cream cheese frosting, decorated with colourful fresh fruit to look like an Easter egg.
This recipe was sponsored by Countdown Supermarkets, they stock everything you will need to make this Easter Fruit Pizza. I always stock my pantry with their own brand products as they provide great quality and excellent value!
I've used some of my favourite Countdown brand products in this recipe including, cream cheese, maple syrup, butter and plain flour.
Why This Recipe Works
- Bright and colourful with fresh fruit decorations
- A great recipe to make with kids
- Memorable, your family will always remember the gorgeous fruit pizza you made at Easter!
Ingredients you will need
To make my Fruit Pizza you will start with a sugar cookie base for this you will need pantry basics:
Sugar cookie base
- butter
- caster sugar
- egg
- vanilla extract
- lemon juice
- baking powder
- plain flour
Cream cheese frosting
- cream cheese
- maple syrup
- lemon juice and lemon zest
Fruit decorations
- apple
- kiwifruit
- mandarins
- banana
- blueberries
- raspberries
- blackberries
Ingredient Notes and Substitutes
- Butter: This sugar cookie base will work with a full-fat margarine or softened coconut oil
- Plain flour: I have a gluten-free sugar cookie recipe on my website that you could use for the pizza base
- Caster sugar: This recipe will work with regular white sugar.. although I find you get a better texture with caster sugar.
- Maple syrup: You can use honey or icing sugar or stevia as an alternative to maple syrup
- Fruit: You can use any seasonal fresh fruit, canned or frozen fruit will also work well
Step-by-step instructions
Below are illustrated step-by-step instructions to make my Fruit Pizza Recipe, if you prefer just the written instructions then head straight to the printable recipe card below.
Prep:
- Heat your oven to 160 degrees celsius.
- Take your cream cheese out of the fridge so it can soften and come to room temperature
Step one: Cream the butter and sugar until as white as possible.
Step two: Add vanilla, lemon juice and egg, beat.
Step three: In a separate bowl whisk the flour and baking powder so that it is well combined
Step four: Add half the flour to the creamed ingredients, mix on low speed until combined, add the second half of the flour and mix on low speed until combined. Cover the dough in the mixing bowl with cling wrap or beeswax paper/wrap, chill for 30 mins.
Step five: Place a ball of dough between 2 sheets of baking powder, or on a floured board. Roll the dough to approximately 6mm thick. I find that half of the dough makes a great sized pizza base.
Step six: Shape the cookie base into an egg shape with your hands.
Bake your sugar cookie pizza base at 160 degrees celsis for 15 minutes, it should be lightly golden on the underside and edges when it is ready.
Cream cheese frosting
- Use a stand beater or electric beater to beat your cream cheese until it is soft and lump free
- Add the maple syrup, lemon juice and zest, beat until well combined
- Spread the frosting over your cooled pizza base.
Fresh fruit decorations
Slice your fresh fruit and arrange over the cream cheese frosting to create a gorgeous easter themed fruit pizza.
Enjoy!
Top Tips
Here is how you can make these fruit pizza perfectly every time!
The real secret for making this Easter themed fruit pizza look spectacular is to use a variety of fruit in as many colours as you can!
More Easter Themed Recipes For your Family
- Easter Bunny Buns - the cutest dinner rolls
- Healthy easter eggs -fruit based
- Easter bunny cookies
- Bunny footprint cookies
Easter Fruit Pizza
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Ingredients
Sugar Cookie Base
- 225 g butter
- 225 g caster sugar 1 cup
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 450 g flour 3 cups
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 225 grams cream cheese
- ¼ cup maple syrup 60 mls
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 Tablespoon lemon zest (zest from 1 lemon)
Fresh Fruit Decorations
- 1 apple
- 2 kiwifruit
- 1 banana
- ½ cup blueberries
- ½ cup raspberries
- ½ cup blackberries
Instructions
- Heat your oven to 160 degrees celsius.
- Take your cream cheese out of the fridge so it can soften and come to room temperature
Sugar Cookie Base
- Cream the butter and sugar until as white as possible.
- Add vanilla, lemon juice and egg, beat.
- In a separate bowl whisk the flour and baking powder so that it is well combined
- Add half the flour to the creamed ingredients, mix on low speed until combined, add the second half of the flour and mix on low speed until combined.
- Cover the dough in the mixing bowl with cling wrap or beeswax paper/wrap, chill for 30 mins.
- Place a ball of dough between 2 sheets of baking powder, or on a floured board. Roll the dough to approximately 6mm thick. I find that half of the dough makes a great sized pizza base.
- Shape the cookie base into an egg shape with your hands.
- Bake your sugar cookie pizza base at 160 degrees celsis for 15 minutes, it should be lightly golden on the underside and edges when it is ready.
- Cool completelty before icing, and decorating with fruit
Cream Cheese Frosting
- Use a stand beater or electric beater to beat your cream cheese until it is soft and lump free
- Add the maple syrup, lemon juice and zest, beat until well combined
- Spread the frosting over your cooled pizza base.
Fresh fruit decorations
- Slice your fresh fruit and arrange over the cream cheese frosting to create a gorgeous easter themed fruit pizza.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Tips
- If you are having any issues rolling out the dough or moving the cut cookies, it may mean your dough has become too warm, chill it in the fridge and it will be easier to deal with.
- The lemon juice in the recipe doesn't add flavour to the cookies, but the acid helps stop the cookies from spreading while baking.
- Store your sugar cookies in an air-tight container in your pantry for up to 7 days, or freeze the cookies for up to 6 months.
- If you have unbaked sugar cookie dough it will last up to 7 days in the refrigerator, or it can be frozen for up to 6 months.
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