Strawberry Pizza Recipe {the best!}

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This Strawberry Pizza Recipe is so flavorful and easy to make. With fresh strawberries, this dessert is sweet and refreshing. It’s an old fashioned recipe that is the perfect summer dessert or a great Valentine’s Day dessert.

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Strawberry Pizza Recipe

easy to make Strawberry Pizza

A lot of strawberry pizza recipes have you use store-bought sugar dough. This one is homemade, but don’t worry it’s super easy.

Strawberry Pizza with cream cheese

Once you bite into this dessert, I think you’ll appreciate that it’s all homemade.

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How long can you store Strawberry Pizza?

  • Fruit pizza can be stored covered and in the refrigerator for up to three days
strawberry pizza with cream cheese

How far in advance can you make Strawberry Pizza?

  • You can make strawberry pizza a day in advance
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Ingredients for Homemade Strawberry Pizza

  • all-purpose flour
  • baking powder
  • salt
  • melted butter
  • cream cheese
  • powdered sugar
  • Cool Whip
  • sugar
  • water
  • cornstarch
  • strawberry Jell-O
  • fresh strawberries
Slice of strawberry pizza

Strawberry Pizza Recipe {the best!}

Melissa
Delicious and refreshing strawberry pizza – fruit pizza
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 12 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 10 -12 servings

Equipment

  • 1 9-inch round pan deep sides

Ingredients
  

Crust

  • 2 cups of all-purpose flour
  • 3 tsp. of baking powder
  • ½ tsp. of salt
  • 1 cup 2 sticks of butter – unsalted
  • *optional – nuts – crushed or chopped into small bits

First Layer

  • 8 oz. of cream cheese
  • 3 cups of powdered sugar
  • 12 oz. of Cool Whip

Top Layer

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup water
  • 3 Tbsp. cornstarch
  • 1 small box of strawberry Jell-O
  • 2 pt. of fresh strawberries – sliced

Instructions
 

  • Mix flour, baking powder, and salt
  • Melt butter and mix with flour mixture
  • press into a deep round baking pan or pizza pan
  • Bake at 350 for about 12 minutes or until done
  • blend cheese and sugar until smooth
  • fold in Cool Whip
  • Spread cream cheese layer over baked crust
  • *If using a shallow pan, pull the cheese up on the sides so the filling will not run out
  • in a saucepan over med/high heat, mix water, sugar, and cornstarch
  • bring to a boil
  • cook until clear
  • add Jell-O and mix
  • cool completely – for at least 30 minutes
  • add strawberries and spread mixture over the top of cream cheese
  • Chill in the refrigerator for an hour or more before cutting

Notes

  • you can use self-rising flour, but omit baking powder and salt in the crust
Store covered in the fridge for up to 3 days
Keyword Holiday, summer
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This Post Has 4 Comments

  1. Gaby

    Hello! How much butter do you use for thw crust?? Thank you!

    1. Melissa

      I hope I caught you in time…Thank you so, so much for catching that. You’ll need 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter. I’ll go correct the recipe card right now. Thank you so much.

  2. Vanessa

    How many inches for the pan?

    1. Melissa Haines

      The pan is a 9 inch round pan