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Refrigerated sugar cookie dough, icing and candy toppings combine to make this unique Christmas sugar cookie pizza. The green, red and white colours give this holiday cookie pizza a festive look. It’s a super-easy recipe and you can change the kind of icing or the toppings to make this Christmas dessert pizza your own.
Pizza doesn’t have to be savory. This cookie dough pizza boasts a cookie dough crust and sweet toppings, promising so much wonderful sweet flavor in every bite.
Why not also whip up festive butterscotch white Russians and elderflower rum mojitos or try some tiramisu cheesecake mini trifles?
Holiday Cookie Pizza Ingredients
To make this Christmas sugar cookie pizza, you are going to need refrigerated sugar cookie dough (or other store-bought cookie dough such as chocolate chip cookie dough), vanilla icing, M&Ms in red and green, some holiday sprinkles, and starlight peppermints.
You can use any other kind of festive-colored candy toppings and sprinkles if you want, or another type of peppermint on your sweet Christmas pizza. Also, you could sub another flavor of icing for the vanilla or make a homemade cream cheese frosting instead. Homemade cookies like this are easy to customize which makes it the perfect dessert!
Making pizza is always a rewarding experience and there are so many recipes to choose from. I love this heart-shaped pizza for Valentine’s Day and this pizza giana for Easter.
How to Make Cookie Dough Pizza
Cut your refrigerated sugar cookie dough into ¼-inch slices. Arrange them in a greased pizza pan (or baking sheet with parchment paper), pressing them down so they cover the pan with no gaps.
Bake the crust for about 12 minutes or until golden. Let it cool completely before piping the icing on top, else it will partially melt and soak in, and that will look messy. So ensure the crust is totally cool before you begin. An icing spatula is handy to smooth it out evenly.
Now it’s time to get creative, arranging your candy toppings on the holiday cookie pizza. The peppermints make a nice border and then you can sprinkle crushed cookies, sprinkles and M&Ms over the pizza.
Sweet Pizza Recipes
Although purists might disagree about dessert pizzas falling into the category of pizza, there’s no doubt a cookie dough pizza can be delicious. Even if you aren’t a sugar cookie fan, you can make a variety akin to white chocolate chip cookies.
A pizza is technically a crust with a sauce and toppings. Refrigerated sugar cookie dough makes a nice crust for giant cookie dessert pizza, or you could use something else such as brownie batter.
In fact, you don’t even need a traditional (or non-traditional) crust. There are even sweet pizza recipes using a huge slice of watermelon for the ‘crust’ like a giant fruit pizza!
As for the sauce, rather than the typical tomato sauce, pesto, garlic sauce, or other classic pizza sauce, dessert pizzas might have icing, frosting or similar instead.
And finally you have the candy toppings. Anything goes here. With a Christmas dessert pizza, red and green candies are great, as well as peppermints. All the reasons to add this to your list of yummy cookie recipes.
You can sub pretty much any other kinds of candies, chopping bigger ones if needed, or even crushing some. Other ideas for the candy toppings include mini marshmallows, chocolate chips, fruit, or crushed caramels.
Storing this Giant Cookie
Store this cookie in pizza form in an airtight container or seal in plastic wrap after it cools until you want to eat it.
Christmas Sugar Cookie Pizza FAQs
Leftovers will be fine for up to 5 days, meaning you can definitely make your Christmas sugar cookie pizza ahead if you want to. I can’t guarantee you’ll be able to resist snacking on it in the meantime though!
Now the nice thing about this Christmas sugar cookie pizza is you have creative freedom with what you add. Skittles, M&Ms, other kinds of green and red candies – any of those would work.
You can also vary the icing, although something white in colour would work best, since it contrasts with the red and green colour decorations. If you’re making these with the kids, maybe have them pick their own toppings.
Since you don’t have to pipe anything fancy, just cover the pizza crust, you can simply snip the corner off a Ziploc bag and use that. If the icing doesn’t look even, just use a spatula to smooth it out. You don’t need it to look perfect though.
Christmas Sugar Cookie Pizza Recipe
Easy Christmas Sugar Cookie Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 Package refrigerated sugar cookie dough, 16.5 Ounce roll
- 1 Tub icing, white vanilla, 16 Ounce
- ¾ Cup chocolate candy, red and green M&M’s
- 2 Tablespoons sprinkles, holiday colours
- ¼ Cup peppermints, crushed, starlight. Reserve some whole peppermints for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 12-inch pizza pan with cooking spray.
- Cut (1) 16.5-ounce roll of sugar cookie dough using a chef’s knife into ¼-inch slices. Lay each slice on the pizza pan and press them evenly into the 12-inch pizza pan. Be sure to pack each piece into each other, so there are no open areas between the cookie dough pieces.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until the cookie dough is golden brown. Place on a cooling rack and allow to completely cool.
- Once cooled, pipe the icing over the top of the cookie. Use an icing spatula to smooth it out. Finish loading the Christmas cookie pizza with toppings! Use starlight peppermints as a border. Distribute the M&M’s, sprinkles, and crushed peppermint evenly.
Nutrition
Festive and delicious, this Christmas sugar cookie pizza is well worth making. It’s a cookie dough pizza boasting a cookie crust, vanilla icing and a variety of candy toppings. I guarantee that this pizza cookie will be a big hit and you may want to try it with a scoop of ice cream!
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Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
This is one of my go-to recipes of yours. Thank you!!
I love this dessert!