Posted Mar 05, 2018, Updated May 31, 2024 This rainbow fruit pizza is a fun and beautiful dessert modified from this classic fruit pizza recipe to make it into a rainbow shape for a stunning presentation. The crust and frosting are made completely from scratch, then topped with your favorite fresh summer fruits. What I love about this rainbow fruit pizza recipe is that the fruit really shines. The cookie and frosting aren’t overly sweet or thick, but instead they compliment the fruit in the best, most dreamy way possible.
Rainbow Fruit Pizza: Ingredient Substitutions
All-purpose flour: Use 1:1 all purpose gluten-free flour to make the recipe gluten-free. Salted butter. unsalted butter is a good substitute. Also, vegan butter. Fruit: Ue your favorite fruit! I listed a few suggestions for each color in the recipe card. Cream cheese frosting. If you’d prefer, use vanilla buttercream frosting (made with only butter), or homemade vanilla frosting (made with shortening and butter).
How to Make Rainbow Fruit Pizza
Let’s walk through how to make a rainbow fruit pizza step-by-step. Don’t forget to watch the video.
Make the Sugar Cookie Crust Dough
Since the crust has to chill, it has to be made first. Begin by mixing the dry ingredients together. Then, beat the butter and sugar together in the bowl of a standing mixer or in a large bowl with a handheld mixer. Next, add the egg and vanilla and beat for one minute. Then, beat in the dry ingredients.
Chill the Dough
Once the dough is finished, form it into a disc, wrap it in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
Roll Out Rainbow
To make this fruit pizza recipe into a rainbow shape, form the dough into an arch and place it between two pieces of parchment paper {see below}. Then, roll along the arch to form the rainbow. Rolling it directly on parchment paper also makes it easier to transfer the crust to a baking sheet when it’s time.
Cut out Clouds
Remove the top layer of parchment paper and use an extra-sharp knife and cut the clouds out of both ends of the arch. You may need to use your hands to shape them a bit.
Bake
After you’ve formed a perfect rainbow, simply slide the parchment paper/cookie crust onto your baking sheet and bake. Please note: you will need to watch the cookie carefully. If you over-bake the cookie and it looses it’s shape in the oven, it can be fixed. Simply remove it and immediately re-shape the rainbow/clouds with a metal spoon while it’s still hot. It works very well.
Make the Cream Cheese Frosting
Make the frosting while the sugar cookie crust is baking, and keep it at room temperature until the sugar cookie crust is completely cooled.
Assemble the Rainbow Fruit Pizza
Once the cookie is cooled, frost it with the cream cheese frosting. Then, top with fruit of your choosing. I’ve included a few ideas for each color in the recipe! After you’re done decorating, put the completed rainbow fruit pizza in the refrigerator to chill for at least 2 hours!
Serve
To serve, slice the fruit pizza from the top to the bottom, so that each piece has a little bit of all the colors.
Store
Put the leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days! If you make and love our recipes, it would mean so much to me if you would leave a comment and rating! And don’t forget to follow along with us on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Youtube – be sure to tag @joyfoodsunshine and use the hashtag #joyfoodsunshine so we can see your creations!
