Butterfly Fruit Pizza

Cover a butterfly-shaped cookie with flavored cream cheese and a colorful assortment of fresh fruit to create this fun Butterfly Fruit Pizza. This sweet summer dessert tastes as amazing as it looks.

A large cookie makes a wonderful canvas for frosted art or a bright arrangement of fruit.

Over the years I’ve had so much fun making and decorating fruit pizzas to share with you including:

• Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Pizza Watermelon – my most popular fruit pizza that looks like watermelon slices
• Fruit Pizza Beach Ball – the perfect dessert for a beach or pool party
• Fruit Pizza Flowers – daisy cookies look so colorful topped with raspberries and blueberries
• Fruit Pizza Strawberries – giant strawberry-shaped cookies topped with strawberries and a drizzle of chocolate
• Playing Card Fruit Pizza – makes a fun gameday dessert
• Uncle Sam Hat Fruit Pizza – red, white, and blue fruit pizza perfect for any patriotic party
• Swirly Pop Fruit Pizza – fun lollipop cookies topped with colorful fruit

Butterflies come in so many beautiful colors and have countless types of patterns on their wings and I knew that I could make a beautiful fruit pizza butterfly.

I started by finding a simple butterfly coloring page (here) as a guide then cut out sugar cookie dough using the template, baked it, topped it with flavored cream cheese and fruit.

Using strawberry-flavored cream cheese was easy but I have to admit that I prefer the no-bake cheesecake fluff topping that I used to make my Strawberry Kiwi Fruit Pizza Watermelon.

Butterfly Fruit Pizza (serves 8-12)

Sugar Cookie Crust Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour, plus more to dust cutting board
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Toppings:

• 6 ounces strawberry cream cheese*
• diced fruit (pineapple, green grapes, strawberries, peaches, kiwi, or any other fruits you like)
• 2 banana slices
• black food gel

*If you prefer a sweeter flavored topping stir 1/4 cup sugar into the fruit-flavored cream cheese.

Or mix 4 ounces cream cheese, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1/2 cup whipped topping, and 1 teaspoon vanilla together for a sweet cream cheese fluff topping.

Supplies:

• parchment paper
• cutting board
• rolling pin
• knife or pizza wheel
• butterfly coloring page – use this one or any you like

Instructions:

• In a mixing bowl cream together butter and sugar.
• Add the egg and mix until well combined.
• Add the vanilla and almond extract and mix until combined.
• Mix flour and salt together and add it to the mixing bowl.
• Mix just until combined.

• Increase the size of your coloring page so that it is 8″ tall and about 16″ wide.
• You’ll need to print it out on two pieces of paper, then cut it out and past the two pieces together.
• Place a piece of parchment paper on top of your cutting board.
• Roll your dough out to 3/8″ thickness.
• Lay the butterfly template over the dough and cut out around it.

• Remove excess dough and save for another use.
• Refrigerate butterfly cookie for at least 30 minutes.
• Bake in a preheated 375-degree oven for 16-22 minutes until golden brown around the edges and baked all the way through in the center.
• Cool completely.

• Spread your choice of cheesecake or cream cheese filling over the cookie.

• Top with fruit to create a beautiful butterfly wing pattern.
• I used green grapes to create it’s the body, bananas for its eyes, pineapple, strawberries, peaches, for the wings.

• I added two kiwi slices to create large spots on my butterfly wings, then I piped some black food gel to make pupils and a smile.
• Serve or refrigerate up to 8 hours for the best flavor.
• This pizza can be kept for two days in the refrigerator but tastes best the day it’s made.

RECIPE

Originally published April 12, 2012.

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Butterfly Fruit Pizza

Prep Time

45 mins

 

Butterfly-shaped sugar cookie topped with strawberry cream cheese and decorated with colorful fruit.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cookie, fruit, fruit pizza

Servings: 12

Author: Beth

Ingredients

Sugar Cookie Crust Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
• 2 1/2 cups flour plus more to dust cutting board
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Toppings:

• 6 ounces strawberry cream cheese
• 3-4 cups diced fruit pineapple, green grapes, strawberries, peaches, kiwi, or any other fruits you like
• 2 banana slices
• black food gel

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl cream together butter and sugar.
2. Add the egg and mix until well combined.
3. Add the vanilla and almond extract and mix until combined.
4. Mix flour and salt together and add it to the mixing bowl.
5. Mix just until combined.
6. Place a piece of parchment paper on top of your cutting board.
7. Roll your dough out to 3/8" thickness.
8. Lay the butterfly template over the dough and cut out around it.
9. Remove excess dough and save for another use.
10. Refrigerate butterfly cookie for at least 30 minutes.
11. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
12. Bake for 16-22 minutes until golden brown around the edges.
13. Cool completely.
14. Spread strawberry cream cheese over the cookie.
15. Top the cookie with diced fruit using green grapes
16. for the body, bananas for its eyes, pineapple, strawberries, peaches, and kiwi slices for the wings.

Recipe Notes

This pizza can be kept for two days in the refrigerator but tastes best the day it's made. 

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