Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza (Gluten free, Paleo, AIP, Healthier)
This sugar cookie fruit pizza is a seriously decadent and delicious treat! It’s perfect for parties, cookouts, and sharing with family and friends. This sugar cookie is allergen friendly, paleo, gluten free, egg free, nut free and AIP.
Literally, anything with “pizza” in the name is delicious. Of course, actual pizza is the actual best, and cookie pizza is a close second. But sugar cookie fruit pizza? Now that’s what’s up.
I thought about making sugar cookie fruit pizza when I was brainstorming what I was going to make for gatherings this season. I love seasonal fresh fruit, but I also love upleveling a bit to make it more decadent. That’s where this sugar cookie fruit pizza comes in!
How to Make Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza
- Combine the ingredients for the sugar cookie (listed below).
- Bake the sugar cookie and remove from the oven, being careful to not break the cookie. Allow to fully cool.
- Add the frosting (or prepare fresh frosting) and add to the cookie.
- Arrange the fruit on top and slice!
Tips & Tricks to Make Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza
Make sure the cookie is completely cooled.
You definitely don’t want melted frosting if you’re using the frosting recipe I’ve listed here.
Take a shortcut with a premade frosting
If you want to keep it healthier, I love to use Simple Mills frosting!
Slice it very carefully!
This isn’t like a typical cookie pizza that you’d buy from the store that’s super soft. It’s got a bit of a crisp to it, so it can more easily break. Slice it very carefully with a pizza roller. However, if it does break at all, it’s still delicious 🙂
The Ingredients for this Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza
Tigernut flour
This is a nut free flour that is paleo and AIP. I have not tried other flours, but almond flour would be the closest swap.
Tapioca starch
You can likely also use arrowroot starch.
Gelatin
This helps to bind the cookie. Collagen cannot be swapped for gelatin.
Palm shortening
This makes the frosting and give the cookie that signature cookie texture!
For the frosting- Palm shortening, coconut cream & honey
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PrintSugar Cookie Fruit Pizza (Gluten free, Paleo, AIP, Healthier)
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
Description
This sugar cookie fruit pizza is a seriously decadent and delicious treat! It’s perfect for parties, cookouts, and sharing with family and friends. This sugar cookie is allergen friendly, paleo, gluten free, egg free, nut free and AIP.
Ingredients
For the cookie
- 3/4 cup tapioca starch
- 1/2 cup tigernut flour
- 1 tbsp gelatin
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup palm shortening
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
For the frosting & topping
- 1/3 cup palm shortening
- 1/4 cup coconut cream
- 2 tsp light-colored honey
- 1/2 cup strawberries, sliced
- 2 kiwis, sliced into half moons
- 1/4 cup grapes, sliced in half
- 1/4 cup blueberries
- 2 tsp lemon zest
Instructions
For the cookie
- Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Very lightly grease with coconut oil or other. Set aside.
- Using a large mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, cream together the palm shortening and maple syrup. Add the mixture into the flour mixture and stir in the vanilla extract until the ingredients are combined and a dough is formed.
- Add the dough to the baking sheet and form it into an 8″ round crust that’s about 1/4″ thick.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 12-13 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely. Don’t touch it before it cools or it may break!
For the toppings
- Combine the ingredients of the frosting in a bowl and mix well.
- Use a spoon or rubber spatula to carefully frost the cookie.
- Arrange the fruit in a circular pattern starting with a strawberry outer ring, then kiwi, then grapes, and finally blueberries in the center. Top with lemon zest.
To serve
- Use a pizza roller to very carefully slice the cookie. Go slowly to avoid breaking, but if any breaking happens, it’s still delicious! 🙂
Notes
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All nutritional facts are estimations and may vary.
- Prep Time: 25
- Cook Time: 15
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 318
- Fat: 22.6g
- Carbohydrates: 28.2g
- Fiber: 3.8g
- Protein: 3g
Keywords: fruit pizza
This is perfect! I was actually going to make cookie cake for my birthday today. Wonderful timing. I can’t wait to dig in.
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I always love your recipes! I grew up eating fruit pizza and this looks YUMMY! In regard to the frosting, do you know of one that is AIP? The Simple Mills one looks like it has sugar in it, but I could be mistaken.
Thank you so much!! The simple mills frosting isn’t AIP, but the recipe I listed here for a homemade frosting is 🙂
Unbelievable! I was skeptical and intimidated having never heard of tigernut flour (and how can this taste good without sugar and flour)?? But it did!! I loved it and even better so did my husband! Jump in and make this, youll be glad you did. Also, I found all the ingredients at Sprouts 🙂
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SO glad that you liked it, Nicole!! Thank you so much!!!
What is coconut cream? I haven’t heard of that variation. Is there a brand you recommend?
Coconut cream is the cream that hardens on top of full fat coconut milk 🙂
This cookie is too legit to quit Made it for the first time last night and loved it. I may or may not have had some from breakfast this morning and it may have tasted even better than being fresh! I used pears and blueberries with a sprinkle of cinnamon!
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YUM!!! Thank you so much, Katie!!
Made this for Mother’s Day, wanted a special AIP “treat” and usually don’t have high expectations for these types of desserts. Well, it was amazing! LOVED it!!! Thank you!!!
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Yay! Thank you so much, Meghan! So glad you liked it! 🙂
Family really enjoyed this, especially the crust!
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Thanks, Michelle, we loved this recipe! The crust was everyone’s favorite part! We recently decided to try AIP for my son, and your website, ebook, and cookbook have been the best resources!
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I can’t wait to try this. Do you have any idea of what I could in place of the coconut cream? My husband hates the coconut taste and I’m
Trying to make a dessert the whole family can enjoy! Thank you!!!
You can’t really replace the coconut cream for anything else in the frosting, but it really won’t taste very coconut-y because of the palm shortening! If it’s still too strong, you could use the Simple Mills Vanilla frosting instead!
Made this last year for Easter and planning to make it for Mother’s Day this weekend to bring to my parents house. So delicious! One question, does it keep well in the fridge? Wanted to try and make it ahead of time, but worried it may not stay crispy and get soggy?
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YAY! So glad you like it!! I would bake the cookie before and then just frost and top it the day to keep it fresh 🙂
So yummy omg I’m making it a second time right now
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Thank you!!
Can’t wait to try this! Do you have a recommendation to swap out the palm shortening?
Thank you!
You can try coconut oil, but the cookie won’t have as cake-y texture!