A few months dorsum I was in Colorado and I had dinner with some girlfriends one night.  Information technology was a potluck style dinner – those are my favorite – and one of the girls was serving upwardly Fruit Pizza for her dessert.  I was pretty sure I had Fruit Pizza before, only I recalled that I wasn't a big fan of it – mostly because I'm non a crust daughter.  I only don't typically like crusts – which is quite weird since I am DEFINITELY a breadstuff girl.  Alas, I digress.

Being the practiced dinner invitee I am, all the same, I served a slice of the Fruit Pizza to myself and took a bite.  It literally melted in my mouth!  I immediately knew at that place was something unlike about this Fruit Pizza than the ones I had eaten earlier.  What was it?

The crust! Information technology wasn't a typical crust! I gently inquired…and establish out it was a sugar cookie dough, rolled into a large rectangle to create a crust. Genius!  Inspired by the succulent concoction, I ventured out to recreate it for myself.

Final night I decided to make Bootleg Individual Fruit Pizzas, so in lieu of making ane large crust, I made a batch of sugar cookies and decided they would be the perfect size for individual servings.

sugar cookie

I cooked the cookies all at once and then immune them to cool for a couple of hours.  Ordinarily I practice Not have the necessary restraint to permit for proper cooling time, but this fourth dimension I made them right before I ran an errand, then I had no choice but to exit them at dwelling house to absurd while I was gone. The added bonus to this was that when I returned dwelling the whole house welcomed me with sugary smells.

Having the "crusts" done, I and then fabricated the icing.  To make the icing I recommend you lot utilise i 8ounce package of foam cheese (softened) and ane cup confectioners (powdered) carbohydrate.

cream cheese and powdered sugar icing

Mix well until both ingredients are well combined and your icing is dainty and smooth.  And then I prepared the fruit.  You lot tin use any kind of fruit, but I personally think the following fruits are very costless to this recipe and are easy to piece of work with:

  • Standard mandarin Oranges
  • Strawberries
  • Raspberries
  • Kiwi
  • Pineapple Chunks

Line up the cookies on a platter and gear up to assemble the Individual Fruit Pizzas.

sugar cookie fruit pizza crust

Spread as much, or as little, of the icing as you prefer onto the surface of the cookies.  And then, tiptop with fruit, being careful to have nice presentation equally you become.  Once completed, set up the platter out and let everyone to take hold of their ain.  make sure you grab 1 too, because they'll  get snatched upward rapidly!

Individual Fruit Pizzas

If yous don't take many guests (or children) to serve the pizzas to, then I suggest y'all simply assemble as many as needed. The icing and fruit will unremarkably keep in the fridge upwards to a calendar week and even if yous run out of these, the sugar cookies are tasty plenty on their own as an after dinner care for, or a midnight snack!

Close Up of Fruit Pizzas

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