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If you’re looking for an easy dessert, try a cookie pizza made from cake mix! Red Velvet Fruit Pizza has a cream cheese frosting and fresh berries – it’s the perfect dessert for a party!
Easy Cookie Pizza with Cake Mix
We love dessert pizza – there’s nothing better than a giant cookie with frosting and toppings. Everyone loves them and they’re perfect for parties – especially when you make a cookie pizza recipe with cake mix! There are so many variations for this, I know you’ll love it.
Why you’ll love this recipe
- I used red velvet cake mix but you can use any flavor
- Just a few ingredients – you probably have them all on hand!
- Cream cheese frosting on top – with fresh fruit!
- This Red Velvet Fruit Pizza is the perfect way to celebrate any holiday. If you decorate it with strawberries and blueberries it’s perfect for any day you want a red, white, and blue firework on your counter.
Ingredients Needed
- Cake Mix – I used red velvet cake mix but you can make this recipe with any flavor!
- Butter – I always bake with unsalted butter but you can also use salted.
- Cream Cheese – make sure it’s softened so you can make frosting without lumps.
- Fruit – Use your favorite fruit to decorate the top.
How to make Cookie Pizza
- Use a stick of butter and and egg to make a thick dough (like you’re making a gooey bar).
- Then press it into the bottom of a 12-13″ pizza pan. (Mine is 12.5″.)
- Once it’s baked and cooled you top it with a cream cheese whipped cream topping.
- Add your favorite fruit on top!
Tip From Dorothy
Expert Tips
- Now, if you don’t like red velvet, don’t worry. This same method will work with ANY flavor cake mix or brownie mix!
- You’re not limited to strawberries and blueberries. Try raspberries, blackberries, kiwi, mango, grapes, bananas…any combo you like. This is also a great way to use up that almost-ready-to-go-bad fruit in your fridge.
- Turn this into a chocolate chip cookie pizza by using yellow cake mix and add chocolate chips!
FAQs
Yes you can bake this in a rectangular pan but it will take longer to bake.
You can freeze the pizza without the fruit on top.
Red Velvet Fruit Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 (approx 15 ounce) box cake mix (I used red velvet, use your favorite flavor)
- ½ cup (113g) unsalted butter , softened
- 1 large egg
- 2 ounces (57g) cream cheese , softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup (28g) powdered sugar
- 1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a pizza pan (12-13” diameter) with cooking spray. If you don’t have a pizza pan you can use a 9” round pan or a 9×13” pan but baking times will be affected.
- Use a hand or a stand mixer to mix the cake mix, butter, and egg. It takes a few minutes, depending on your mixer, for the ingredients to come together in a thick dough. Press the dough into the bottom of your prepared pan.
- Bake for about 10-15 minutes, or until the cookie loses it’s glossy sheen. Cool completely before continuing.
- To make the topping, mix the softened cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla with a hand mixer until smooth. Fold in whipped topping by hand. Spread on cooled pizza cookie. Top with fruit in desired pattern.
- Once fully assembled, this should be eaten the same day it’s made. You can make the cookie up to 2 days before serving and wrap it well with plastic wrap.
Recipe Notes
- Now, if you don’t like red velvet, don’t worry. This same method will work with ANY flavor cake mix or brownie mix!
- You’re not limited to strawberries and blueberries. Try raspberries, blackberries, kiwi, mango, grapes, bananas…any combo you like. This is also a great way to use up that almost-ready-to-go-bad fruit in your fridge.
I had to take ballroom dance lessons when I was like, 12, and it was one of the worst memories of my life ๐ Love your pizza!
Haha so adorable! Way to go Jordan and you ๐ I love this gorgeous fruit pizza! The berries look perfect and so so festive!
Thanks Kelly!
I totally remember square dancing in high school….my partner had the clammiest hands and I would have done anything to NOT have to touch them! Ewwww! Good thing this pizza is the opposite!
Oh gosh I remember clammy hands!! EWWWW ๐
I had to do square dancing in the 3rd grade, and it was just as traumatic for me as it was for your daughter. I had to hold hands with a boy named Jeremy, and he had WARTS ON HIS HANDS! Thus, the “pinky hold” was invented.
Any kind of fruit pizza is just awesome in my book. And using a cake mix saves so much time. Thanks for this recipe!
OMG warts??? NOOOOOO!!!! That would be horrible.
When I was a kid, we had something called the sadie hawkins dance where we had to ask a boy. It was awkward and awful and I almost blocked it from memory. Lol. This pizza is so gorgeous, I can hardly stand it. I think I love this color combo best of all, too! ย
I am so glad we never had sadie hawkins. Although I think they do have it at the HS here!! Hahaha
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