If you are a fan of traditional fruit pizza, you will be delighted with these little fruit pizza cupcakes! I made these for Prince Charming’s 30th birthday party that we had with both of our families. To my great satisfaction, there were some leftover that I have been sneaking for my “breakfast” several mornings this week. Hey… It has fruit in it, so it must be healthy, right?!?! ;)
And there is an extra layer that you may not have had in other fruit pizzas…Cool Whip sandwiched between 2 layers of fruit!
Download and print the entire recipe here.
To save time and effort, I just used Pillsbury Refrigerated Sugar Cookie Dough. I don’t normally like this type of sugar cookie by itself or with icing (I would much rather have our World’s Best Sugar Cookies), but it tastes SUPERB as the shell for our Fruit Pizza Cupcakes and is sturdy enough to hold everything together!
1. Slice off 1/2 inch of dough from the refrigerated cookie dough. Place each dough slice on a cupcake pan turned upside down. (Tip: I actually found the dough to “run” more evenly if you make a ball with the dough first and then put the ball on top of the upside down cookie sheet.)
2. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-16 minutes (or until golden and firm to the touch). This is longer than the instructions on the dough packaging tells you because you’ll want the cookie cupcake shell to be somewhat hard to keep its shape.
3. Carefully, ever so carefully, remove the cookie from the upside down cupcake pan (I had 3 out of the 26 that ended up falling apart during this step).
Beautiful cookie shells!
4. Mix 1 8oz. package of softened cream cheese with 1/2 cup of powdered sugar and 1 tsp. vanilla.
5. Use a spoon or spatula to spread the mixture into the shells.
6. Wash and cut up your fruit–we used fresh strawberries, pineapple, and blueberries.
7. Place your first row of fruit on top of the cream cheese mixture.
8. Add a dollop of cool whip to each cupcake, spread evenly, and then top with another layer of fruit!
Yum!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I think one of these babies is calling my name for an afternoon snack!
You are making me very hungry! :)
Yum! These look delicious!
These look and sound delicious. I do love fruit pizza.
These sound VERY tasty and I’m looking forward to trying them. Just a helpful tip from another similar recipe I make… You can just roll small balls of dough from the tube sugar cookies and put them in the mini muffin pan “right side up.” Don’t flatten the balls, they will bake down on their own. Then use a Pampered Chef mini tart shaper to “stamp” the dough down IMMEDIATELY when you take it out of the oven. (After they cool I usually fill them with frosting and the taste is similar to those Mrs. Field’s cookie cake/pie things.) They will turn out very uniformly and aren’t difficult to get out of the pan at all.
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I was very excited to try this but when I did it was a disaster for me! All my cookies got stuck to the cupcake tray :( any tips for getting these off the tray? Should I remove them fresh out of the oven. I did wait a few minutes.