4th of July Fruit Pizza

This 4th of July fruit pizza is a patriotic showstopper! With a sugar cookie crust, fluffy topping, and juicy berries arranged like the American flag, this red, white and blue dessert is perfect for your holiday celebration.

This post may contain affiliate links. Read disclosure policy.

4th of July Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

This fruit pizza flag is a fun patriotic version of my favorite fruit pizza recipe making it on my list of delicious and easy 4th of July desserts.

A patriotic dessert beaming with pride is sure to garner oohs and ahhs from your holiday crowd from Memorial Day to 4th of July. It looks stunning and intricate but couldn’t be easier to make. Especially when the crispy buttery sugar cookie crust is made from store-bought dough!

It’s then topped with a creamy Cool whip frosting and adorned with rows of raspberries to represent the stripes and fresh blueberries to represent the stars. The sweet and tart flavors combined with a cookie crust are irresistible. 

Make this Fourth of July that much more fun with this adorable American flag fruit pizza!

Why I Love This Recipe

• Simple. When looking for a red, white, and blue dessert, this 4th of July fruit pizza is at the top of my mind every year. It’s so easy to pull together and everyone loves it!
• Customizable. You can easily swap the raspberries and blueberries for other berries. You can also make a homemade crust, or use a different kind of frosting. Get creative!
• Serves a crowd. You can make this flag fruit pizza as big as you’d like! Double the amount of crust and use a big baking sheet pan to be able to fit the stars and stripes.

Ingredients Needed

Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.

• Sugar cookie dough: A fantastic shortcut is to use a premade Pillsbury sugar cookie dough as I do! If you want to use homemade, then a half batch of my soft sugar cookie dough or sugar cookie bar recipe would be great.  
• Cream cheese frosting: Made from a combination of room-temperature cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Then my homemade Cool Whip recipe (or thawed frozen topping) gets folded in. Here’s how to soften cream cheese if you happen to have forgotten earlier!
• Fruit topping: I use fresh raspberries and blueberries but you can swap to other berries like strawberries if you prefer.

How to Make 4th of July Fruit Pizza

1. Sugar cookie crust. Press cookie dough down into a lightly greased 9 x 13″ pan. I like to use a lining of parchment paper so that it’s easy to remove. Press the dough to about 1/8″ thick and pierce it several times with a fork. This allows the steam to escape so it won’t puff up.
2. Bake. Transfer to a preheated 350-degree oven and bake for 10-15 minutes, until the edges are slightly golden.
3. Make the creamy frosting. Beat together the cream cheese, vanilla, and sugar with an electric mixer until creamy. Gently fold the cool whip into the cream cheese mixture with a spatula until fully combined. 
4. Spread across the crust. Add half the frosting to the baked and cooled crust and use a rubber spatula to spread it evenly across the surface of the crust. 
5. Decorate the flag pizza with fruit. I like to make a blueberry border to begin, then a rectangle in the top left corner, filled with rows of blueberries for the stars. I use the raspberries to make stripes all the way down, leaving space in between for frosting.
6. Pipe extra frosting. Use a 1M piping tip to pipe the remaining frosting in between the stripes. It gives it a fuller 3D effect.

Recipe Tips

Here are a few tips to make your American flag fruit pizza look even better and easier!

• Make it easier. If you don’t have a piping bag or tip, leave the extra frosting off and just use the underlying frosting as the white part of the flag or use sliced bananas (add right before serving). You could also make these individual fruit pizza cookies!
• Substitute the fruit. Use strawberries, grapes, blackberries, you name it.
• More than enough fruit. Sometimes you’ll run into berries that aren’t so appealing or mushy. Having more than you need helps to avoid running low when you’ve had to discard a few of them.
• Line your baking dish with parchment paper so you can easily pull it out to decorate it once it has cooled. At the very least, use cooking spray to grease it so that the slices come out intact.
• A different frosting. You could also use a classic buttercream or cream cheese frosting on top.
• Cool the crust. Make sure to cool it completely before adding any frosting. This way it won’t be runny.
• Don’t let the crust brown. Sugar cookie dough is not meant to turn brown. It can easily start to taste burnt this way. You want the edges to be ever so slightly golden brown and removed from the oven immediately.

Make-Ahead

Plan ahead and make this 4th of July fruit pizza ahead of time. Bake it and allow it to cool completely. Store it in an airtight container at room temperature overnight. 

Make the frosting and keep it in an airtight container in the fridge overnight. The next day assemble the red white and blue fruit pizza just before serving!

How to Store Patriotic Fruit Pizza

Store leftover flag fruit pizza in an airtight container for up to three days in the fridge. When ready to enjoy, simply eat it chilled or let sit for a few minutes at room temperature.