In today’s post: This American flag fruit pizza is an easy, delicious recipe for the Fourth of July that you can make in about an hour.
This is one of those desserts that looks pretty fancy, but is actually really easy to make! And it’s absolutely delicious. The base, or “pizza crust”, is a great big sugar cookie made from refrigerated cookie dough (easy!). The creamy filling is a super simple no bake cheesecake mousse (yum!) and then the flag is created with fresh blueberries and raspberries.
Piping the Stripes
You’ll spread half of the cheesecake mousse on the baked cookie crust, then pipe the other half in between rows of raspberries to create stripes. Don’t be intimidated! This is actually really easy to do. Just pick up a Wilton cupcake decorating kit at Walmart for about $4 and use the star tip to make the stripes. You can see how I piped them in the video below.
Flag Fruit Pizza Video
Watch the video below to see how to make this fun patriotic dessert. Written instructions follow the video, and a recipe card is at the end of the post.
Make the Crust
The first step is to make the sugar cookie crust. You are welcome to use your favorite sugar cookie recipe here, but when I’m making desserts like this one I like to keep things easy when I can without sacrificing flavor. I’m not usually a huge fan or refrigerated cookie dough, but it works GREAT for making a crust! Slice a tube of sugar cookie dough into 1/4 inch slices and place them on a lightly greased 12-inch pizza pan. Press the pieces into an even layer.
NOTE: If you’d like to have a cookie star to place on top of the blueberries, make sure to reserve one slice and cook it separately (I just stuck it in the oven on a piece of aluminum foil next to the pizza pan – it cooked a few minutes faster than the cookie crust). I used a star cookie cutter on it AFTER it was cooked to cut out the shape.
Bake the crust at 375 degrees until it’s nicely golden brown. Now, while it’s baking it will puff up and look like it’s going to explode. But it won’t. And once it’s out of the oven and begins to cool it will settle back down and flatten out. Set the crust aside to cool completely. If you’re in a rush, put it in the fridge or freezer to speed cooling. ***While the crust is baking, wash the blueberries and raspberries and dry them thoroughly!***
Make the Cream Cheese Mousse
The cream cheese mousse is so delicious and so easy to make! It’s like a cream cheese frosting but lighter and creamier. Place a block of softened cream cheese in a bowl and use a mixer to beat in 2/3 cup of sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla. When that is smooth, beat in half of a tub of thawed Cool Whip (frozen whipped topping). You’ll end up with a smooth, light mousse that tastes absolutely amazing. You will spread HALF the mousse on the cooled crust, spreading it all the way to the edge.
Create the Flag
First, place the blueberries on the pizza. Begin by outlining the entire circle with blueberries. Then fill in the top left area of the circle with blueberries (not quite a quarter of the pizza).
Next, use raspberries to create seven red stripes across the fruit pizza.
Finally, pipe on the rest of the cheesecake mousse in between the raspberries to create the white stripes.
Storage
Be sure to keep the flag fruit pizza in the fridge until you’re ready to serve. I kept it in my fridge uncovered because I couldn’t figure out how to cover it without smooshing the piped cream. It looked and tasted great the next day as well, but I wouldn’t keep it much longer than that because raspberries have a pretty short shelf life. Happy Fourth of July!
American Flag Fruit Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 tube Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough 16.5 oz
- 8 oz Cream Cheese softened
- 2/3 cup Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 8 oz Whipped Topping thawed
- 12 oz Fresh Raspberries 3 to 4 cups
- 1 dry pint Fresh Blueberries about 2 cups
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Open tube of cookie dough and slice into 1/4 inch pieces.
- Place cookie dough slices on a lightly greased 12 inch pizza pan and press into an even layer. (If desired, reserve one slice of dough and bake it separately, using a cookie cutter to cut a star).
- Bake cookie crust 11-12 minutes until lightly browned. Cool. Meanwhile, wash and dry the berries.
- Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla together until smooth. Beat in half the whipped topping. Fold in the remaining whipped topping.
- Scoop a little less than half of the cream cheese mixture onto the cookie crust and spread it all the way to the edges of the crust.
- Use blueberries to outline the pizza and create the blue portion of the flag, and top with the star cookie.
- Use raspberries to create seven red stripes.
- Use the rest of the cream cheese mixture to pipe the white stripes.
- Keep in fridge until ready to serve.
WVmountainmomma says
Absolutely delicious!