4th of July Fruit Pizza

This patriotic 4th of July Fruit Pizza resembles the American Flag with a brownie on bottom and whipped cream cheese frosting on top, using blueberries, raspberries, and extra frosting for the stars and stripes. It’s a festive and delicious red white and blue dessert.

Festive 4th of July Fruit Pizza

This brownie fruit pizza is easy to make with a boxed brownie mix, but you can grab my recipe for homemade fudgy brownies if you’d rather make them from scratch.

You can also make this patriotic dessert into a sugar cookie fruit pizza if you prefer. (Also a great choice.)

The quick whipped cream cheese frosting on top beats out any kind of store-bought frosting or whipped topping from a tub and is super easy to make. Creating plenty for spreading on top of the brownies and piping the white stripes. This fluffy frosting is super creamy, lightly sweet, and extremely satisfying.

Last, but not least, these 4th of July brownies are finished with fresh blueberries for the stars and raspberries for the stripes. The tart fruit adds a nice contrast to the rich, chocolatey brownie underneath and balances well with the creamy frosting.

This stunning American flag fruit pizza might produce more oohs and ahhs than the fireworks show.

Why We Love this Recipe

• Easy: Because this recipe starts with a boxed brownie mix, you’re only really making the frosting and assembling the fruit to look like a flag. Talk about easy! (Yet it will look like you spent hours making it.)
• Fresh Fruit: Everyone loves fresh fruit, especially in the summertime for potlucks, picnics, and parties. You could swap the raspberries for strawberries and even use bananas instead of frosting for the white stripes. It’s totally customizable.
• Serves a Crowd: Because this 4th of July Fruit Pizza is made in a 9×13 (or quarter sheet pan), this recipe can serve 15 people! (Or more if you cut them into smaller pieces.) You can easily double the recipe for a half sheet pan too.
• Visual Appeal: The best part of these 4th of July brownies is that they are a show-stopper. Everyone’s eyes will be drawn to this patriotic dessert at the cookout, and their tastebuds will be happy.

Ingredients You’ll Need

*NOTE: Full ingredient amounts and instructions are in the printable recipe card at the end of the post.

• Brownie Mix – For a 13×9-inch pan. I used Duncan Hines Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix.
• Egg(s) – Use the amount listed on box mix.
• Water – Use the amount listed on box mix.
• Oil – Use the amount listed on box mix.
• Cream Cheese – The block not the tub.
• Powdered Sugar
• Salt
• Vanilla Extract
• Heavy Whipping Cream
• Raspberries – Buy the bigger 12oz container.
• Blueberries – The smaller 1 pint (11oz) container will be plenty.

How to Make 4th of July Fruit Pizza

This recipe is super simple. Essentially 3 main steps.

1. Make the brownie batter. Spread it into the pan and bake. Cool completely.
2. Make the whipped cream cheese frosting. Spread it evenly on top of the cooled brownies.
3. Top with fruit. Make it look like the American flag with a rectangle of blueberries in the top left corner, and rows of raspberries and extra frosting, if desired.

Let me show you step-by-step how to make it!

Make the Brownie Crust

*Be sure to scroll to the recipe card for full printable instructions.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a 9×13-inch or quarter sheet pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
2. In a large bowl stir together the brownie mix, egg(s), water, and oil as directed on box. Spread into prepared pan.
3. Bake at 350˚F for 20 minutes (check doneness with a toothpick). Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

Make the Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting

1. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the cream cheese for 10-15 seconds. Scrape bowl. Then add the powdered sugar, salt, and vanilla and mix until combined. Scrape bowl.
2. Switch to the whisk attachment and whip frosting on medium-high speed while slowly adding the heavy cream until light, fluffy, and thick. Scraping the bowl as needed.
3. Dollop then spread two-thirds of the frosting over the cooled brownies. Save the remaining frosting for piping.

Decorate the 4th of July Brownies

1. Rinse, then dry the fruit on paper towels. Use blueberries to create a rectangle in the top left corner.
2. Create the red stripes with rows of raspberries leaving space in-between the rows for the white stripes.
3. Create the white stripes by piping frosting between the rows of raspberries. I used a Wilton 2D tip and piped a drop flower, but you could also do shells. You could even just cut off the corner of a zip-top bag and pipe it straight across. (This makes the white layer 3D like the stars and red stripes.)

Serving and Storing

• Use a sharp knife to cut the brownie fruit pizza into 15 pieces (3 rows by 5 rows).
• Rinse and dry the knife between cuts for clean slices.
• Then use a serving spatula to lift the bars out of the pan. Serve immediately. (I recommend waiting to cut the dessert until just before serving to preserve the visual appeal.)
• This 4th of July Fruit Pizza needs to be refrigerated due to the whipped cream cheese frosting.
• Cover the pan lightly with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for up to 5 days. The type of fruit you use will determine how long this will last. Especially if it’s cut fruit and not whole fruit like the blueberries and raspberries.

Alternatives

• Make it in a 12-inch round pizza pan. If you don’t have a pizza pan or only have the kind with holes, there are cheap foil pizza pans at the dollar store that work great for this brownie fruit pizza. Bake time should be about the same. Of course you will have to decorate it slightly different.
• Sugar cookie crust instead of brownies. My sugar cookie fruit pizza recipe will work in place of the brownies if you’d rather have a cookie crust.
• Use bananas for the white stripes. If you desire all fruit on top, sliced bananas will work for the white stripes. You will want to lightly toss the slices of banana in lemon juice to prevent browning and serve immediately for best results.
• Use strawberries for the red stripes. Replace the raspberries with slices of strawberries. You can overlap them slightly or lay them flat.

Helpful Tools

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• Quarter Sheet Pan or 9×13-inch Pan – To bake the rectangle crust.
• Electric Stand Mixer – To whip the frosting.
• Silicone Spatulas – For scraping and spreading.
• Serving Spatula – To scoop bars out of the pan.

If You Make This Recipe, Please Rate and Review it in the Comments Below. THANKS!

*Originally published 6/16/2013. Post updated April 2024.