This glazed fruit pizza has a simple-to-make crust and cream cheese filling with fruit sprinkled on top. A tasty red jell-o glaze is poured over the top for a special treat!
Simple recipe and versatile!
This is made from a simple 3 ingredient crust which makes the recipe a little more handy to make (and likely cheaper) than having sugar cookie dough on hand like many fruit pizza recipes call for. You can basically use any fruit you have on-hand to make this recipe (except pineapple!). Pineapple has an enzyme in it that will not allow jell-o to set. I can thank my college organic chemistry class for teaching me this (and I always thought I would never use any of the information from that class!!).
To lighten the recipe up a bit, feel free to use light cream cheese. I also want to experiment using sugar free jell-o, but have not tried it yet to see how it would effect the setting of the glaze.
Perfect for your next potluck, Thanksgiving, grill-out or just for a snack!
What I love about fruit pizza is it is something you can incorporate year-round and use a variety of seasonal fruits. I just made it last weekend for deer hunting, but it would also fit right in at a summer BBQ or for Christmas post luck.
Looking for more dessert ideas? Check out these Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars..they are the best!
Glazed Fruit Pizza
Equipment
- 1 Mixer
- 1 9×13 air bake pan
- measuring utensils
Ingredients
Crust
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 cup butter softened
Filling
- 1 8 oz package of cream cheese can use light
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups fruit kiwi, blueberries, cut grapes, strawberries
- 1 can mandarin oranges drained, but keep juice
The Glaze
- 2 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1 cup fruit juice from mandarin oranges if not enough juice, add water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp red jello mix (any kind) strawberry, cherry, etc.
Instructions
The Crust
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease pan.
- Mix the butter, powdered sugar and flour together with mixer. Spread on pan evenly, crust will be thin.
- Bake 350 F for 10-15 minutes. Cool.
The Filling
- Blend together the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Spread onto the cooled crust.
- Add fruit of choice. Be sure to save the juice from the mandarin oranges for the glaze.
The Glaze
- Cook on medium heat the cornstarch, mandarin orange fruit juice (add water to make 1 cup if needed), sugar, lemon juice and 2 Tbsp red jell-o mix. Cook mixture until thick.
- Pour the thickened glaze over the fruit pizza. Enjoy! Must keep refrigerated.
Notes
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I brought this to an outing over Labor Day weekend, and it was a smash hit everyone everyone loved it and commented on how good it tasted! Honestly, I’m not much of a cook, so it really put a smile on my face to get that many comments and a cleaned dish from repeat eaters! 😎🙂
Thanks for the comment Nikki!! I’m so glad it was a hit.