Patriotic July 4th Fruit Pizza Recipe (2024)

If you want a fun and easy dessert for the upcoming holiday seasons then you have to try this tasty Flag Fruit Pizza. Minimal ingredients and time makes this a perfect dessert!

Fruit Pizza has always been one of my favorite things ever. You can get so creative when it comes to the recipes for those. Various toppings and frostings!

We decided with Memorial Day and the 4th of July coming up we would do a holiday patriotic-themed one and came up with this Flag Fruit Pizza!

It is so fun and everyone loves it when we bring it to our holiday gatherings, it is usually the first dessert recipe to go! So that means I know for a fact that it is good.

With a simple cream cheese frosting layer you really can’t go wrong with the flavor, add in the berries and you have yourself a double threat when it comes to taste.

Obviously, with the theme, we went with blueberries and raspberries for this, but strawberries will also work for the red in this recipe if you like them more.

Some other favorite berry-flavored desserts we have on our site include Berry Pavlova, Creamy Lemon Berry Tartlets and Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Bars.

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS:

• With ingredients that are easy to find at your local grocer, you can whip this up quickly.
• You can use a premade sugar cookie dough instead of homemade.
• You can also use store-bought cream cheese frosting to make it more simple.

INGREDIENTS NEEDED (FULL RECIPE BELOW):

Unsalted butter
Granulated sugar
Egg
Vanilla extract
All-purpose flour
Baking powder
Salt
Cream cheese
Powdered sugar
Blueberries
Raspberries

HOW TO MAKE A FLAG FRUIT PIZZA:

1. Start off by making the sugar cookie crust. In a medium bowl, add the butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. Beat until well combined.
2. Add in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until just combined. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and pop in the refrigerator. Chill the dough for 30 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, grease a 12-inch tart tin or pizza pan with butter or non-stick spray. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
4. Remove the chilled dough from the refrigerator, drop it onto your tin or pan and use your hands or a spatula to spread it into an even layer. If using your hands, I recommend coating them in oil or non-stick spray to keep the dough from sticking.
5. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden. Remove from the oven and allow to cool down to room temperature before moving onto the next step or the frosting will melt.
6. Meanwhile, prepare the cream cheese frosting. In a medium bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract until smooth and fluffy.
7. Spread 1/2 of the cream cheese frosting onto the sugar cookie crust and use a spatula to spread it all the way to the edges.
8. Decorate with blueberries and raspberries: simply place the blueberries in a square in the left upper corner to create the blue portion of the flag, then use the raspberries to create seven stripes.
9. Place the remaining cream cheese frosting into a piping back fitted with a closed star tip or your favorite tip and pipe on the white stripes.
10. Slice and serve!

See how easy this recipe is?! You can’t go wrong with this one, it is super fun and super patriotic and the perfect party dessert to bring to your gatherings.

DO I HAVE TO USE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING?

Absolutely not! You can use a plain buttercream if you like or even just whipped cream, if you do use whipped cream I recommend my Stabilized Whipped Cream recipe.

If you don’t want to pipe more frosting between the fruit you don’t have to, we do this to make it look more full and we love frosting so the more the better!

Also if you do not want to make this into a flag design you can use any fruit that you like! When we make a regular fruit pizza we like to use:

• Blueberries
• Kiwi
• Strawberries
• Bananas
• Pineapple

You can add any fruit to a Fruit Pizza that you like, all fruits really go with the flavor so you can essentially mix any type and do any design that you like.

HOW TO STORE A FRUIT PIZZA:

This Fruit Pizza Recipe can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3-4 days. The berries might stain the frosting while storing, this is completely normal.

TIPS AND TRICKS FOR MAKING A FRUIT PIZZA:

• Use premade sugar cookie dough if you do not want to make your own.
• You can also use store-bought frosting for this recipe as well.
• If you want a square pizza place it in a smaller rectangle baking pan.
• Whipped cream or buttercream frosting can be substituted for the cream cheese frosting.
• Strawberries can be substituted for the raspberries.

If you want a fun, patriotic, and delicious dessert recipe that is full of flavor, then you have to whip up my Flag Fruit Pizza!

If you like this recipe you might also like:

• Patriotic Bundt Cake
• Patriotic Cupcakes
• Patriotic Trifle

If you’ve tried this FLAG FRUIT PIZZA let me know in the comments how it turned out! You can follow me over on PINTEREST, INSTAGRAM OR FACEBOOK to find some more of our mouthwatering recipes!