Fresh Fruit Pie
Fruit Pizza made into a pie topped with a delicious citrus syrup. Heavenly. @mostdeliciouslife.com
Equipment
- 1 9 inch pie dish
Ingredients
- 14-16 ounces sugar cookie dough
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 8 ounces Cool Whip *or any frozen whipped topping, thawed
Fruit Options
- strawberries, rinsed and sliced
- blueberries, rinsed
- kiwi, peeled and sliced
- berries, rinsed
- bananas, sliced **dipped in lemon juice or preservative
- peaches, peeled and sliced **dipped in lemon juice or preservative
- grapes, rinsed
- canned mandarin oranges, drained
- canned pineapple, drained
Citrus Syrup
- ½ cup white sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 Tbsp corn starch
- ½ cup orange juice
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- ¼ cup water
- ½ tsp grated orange rind *optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Prepare pie pan: Spray generously with cooking spray or rub with shortening.
- Place cookie dough into pie pan and press into pie crust using fingers.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes in center of oven until crust begins to brown and is no longer doughy in the center.
- Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Using beaters, whip the cream cheese and cool whip together.
- Spread in cooled pie crust.
- Decorate with prepared fruit.
Citrus Syrup
- In a saucepan combine sugar, salt, corn starch, orange juice, lemon juice and water. Whisk over medium-high heat until it comes to a boil. Continue whisking for around 2 minutes until it thickens into a syrup, about the consistency of pancake syrup. Add orange rind if desired.
- Allow to cool for 30 minutes. Spoon the syrup over the pie coating all the fruit and covering the cream cheese mixture. (*there may be some leftover)
- Chill for an hour if you can stand it.Cut into wedges to serve.