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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.
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Last Updated on May 28, 2023
This looks so fresh and amazing! Red velvet is absolutely my favorite, and with that cream cheese and fruit…wow.
Thinking about making these as individual large cookies for 4th of July. Just using cream cheese frosting and little flags on top. It would not be as pretty as your pizza, but would make them portable for the fireworks. Thanks for the great recipe.
I was totally going to do that and once it was in the oven I realized what I’d done, ha! Enjoy!
Fabulous!
xoxo
This is genius! I love the pattern and this will be a total show stopper at a lot of Memorial Day barbecues this weekend! Love it!
This is a perfect kid friendly dessert! So fun!!!
I had to take ballroom dance lessons when I was like, 12, and it was one of the worst memories of my life 😉 Love your pizza!
Haha so adorable! Way to go Jordan and you 🙂 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 🙂
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!
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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