Fruit Pizza

A delicious success, indeed!

Cookie Crust Bake Temperature: 350 degrees
Cookie Crust Bake Time: 17-20 minutes

Ingredients:

Sugar Cookie Crust
1 1/2 c. sugar (plus 1-2 tbsp for sprinkling*)
2 1/2 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
14 tbsp. unsalted butter (softened)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 large eggs

Creamy Frosting
12 oz. cream cheese (softened)
7 1/2 tbsp. unsalted butter (softened)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 3/4 c. powdered sugar

Assorted sliced fresh fruits
(i.e. strawberries, kiwi, red grapes, blueberries, mandarin oranges, raspberries)

Directions:

Beat softened butter and sugar together in a large bowl until fluffy.
Add vanilla and eggs and mix until combined.
Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix until just combined.
Chill the dough until it will be workable, yet no sticky to the touch.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit the round baking stone you'll be using. Press and roll the chilled dough into one big cookie (see image below) on the parchment paper covered baking stone. *Sprinkle with 1-2 tablespoons of sugar. Bake for 17 to 20 minutes, until edges are golden. Remove from the oven and let the cookie cool. Cover and chill in fridge.

The baked sugar cookie crust.

Mix frosting ingredients together in a large bowl. Spread on the chilled cookie.
NOTE: I seemed to use only half the frosting on my cookie. I left the ingredient amounts the same, though, because you may prefer to use more...always better to have some left over than to run out!

Chill frosted cookie to set and thicken the frosting.

Multitasking; one spread frosting as the other slices fruit. 

Top with fresh fruits. We started from the outer edge and worked our way in. Call us Perfectionators, but we chose to go with a circular pattern where larger fruits were more prevalent on the outer edge, working our way to smaller fruits in the center. I promise it goes much faster (and is much easier) than it looks! 

Half way there...

Cut into slices and serve! We chose to cut ours into square pieces to serve more (and allow them to choose fruits they enjoyed) rather than cutting them into typical "pizza" slices. 

The final product was a hit at our family reunion..."too beautiful to eat"...except we ate it (ALL) anyways.

Our family loved it and so will yours!

(adapted from a recipe found at http://www.keyingredient.com/recipes/160602273/fruit-pizza/)