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Best Pizza Cookies Recipe Ever!

Pizza Cookies are such an easy yet fantastic dessert! Each person gets to decorate their own with a variety of toppings, creating their own masterpiece! We’ve done a Pizza Cookie bar at parties and they are always a hit. Basically, a giant sugar cookie is the base, frosting, and then toppings. I’ve tried out a variety of sugar cookie recipes and have come up with the best recipe for giant sugar cookies.

You have got to try making these, so incredibly fun and tasty!! Everyone gets to custom make their own pizza cookies with this recipe (which is totally the best ever!) Starts with a sugar cookie base and add lots of fun and goodies on top!

Pizza Cookies (aka Sugar Cookies) Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1/2c butter
  • 1/2c shortening
  • 1c white sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2tsp vanilla
  • 3 1/2c flour
  • 1tsp baking soda
  • 2tsp cream of tartar

Directions:

Cream together butter, shortening, and sugar.

Add eggs and vanilla, mix.

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Add cream of tartar, baking soda, and flour, mix.

Roll out dough on a floured surface and cut our with a large cutter (I used a pitcher to create the circles)

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Bake 425 degrees on parchment paper for 6-8 minutes.

Cool completely on a wire rack.

Pizza Cookies Hints & Tricks:

  • If your dough is too sticky and won’t roll out well, either add a little flour until it pulls away from the sides of the bowl, or put it all into the refrigerator for an hour before rolling it out.
  • Don’t wait until your cookies have browned. Pull them out before browning for the softest cookies.
  • These cookies are great stored in the freezer! You can easily make them ahead of time and pull them out whenever you need to.

Delicious! Giant pizza cookies that are quick and easy to make and sure to be a hit at any party! Make a pizza toppings bar and create a variety of cookie pizzas! Best sugar cookie recipe included!

Decorating Your Pizza Cookies

Any frosting works great. I usually use a canned frosting because it is easiest and I can buy it ahead of time and store it for whenever I need it. We love the cream cheese frosting, but we’ve also used plain vanilla, whipped vanilla and dark chocolate (sometimes we’ll tint the frosting pink so that it looks more like pizza sauce)

Delicious! Giant pizza cookies that are quick and easy to make and sure to be a hit at any party! Make a pizza toppings bar and create a variety of cookie pizzas! Best sugar cookie recipe included! pizza cookie toppings

Pizza Cookie Toppings:

  • sprinkles
  • mini m&ms
  • sweedish fish
  • skittles
  • coconut flakes
  • chocolate chips
  • butterscotch chips
  • peanut butter chips
  • blueberries
  • bananas
  • strawberries

Delicious! Giant pizza cookies that are quick and easy to make and sure to be a hit at any party! Make a pizza toppings bar and create a variety of cookie pizzas! Best sugar cookie recipe included!

The possibilities are endless!! Pizza cookies are a fun and delicious dessert anytime!

Want another fun, kid-friendly recipe? Pop over to see our Birthday Cake No Churn Ice Cream recipe!  Birthday Cake Ice Cream Recipe

What toppings would you add to your pizza cookies?

Kailyn

Monday 19th of September 2016

Sounds like fun! Thanks for sharing on Welcome Home Wednesdays. We hope to see you again this week.

Autumn Reo

Thursday 15th of September 2016

What a fun party idea. My kids would love these.

Claudia Krusch

Thursday 15th of September 2016

These cookies look so delicious and easy to make. Great for a party of lesser time! My son is going to love them!!

Sarah

Wednesday 14th of September 2016

This is the cutest idea! I love how the kids can decorate them with the toppings of their choice. Perfect for a family day activity.

Dawn Lopez

Wednesday 14th of September 2016

This is a totally cool idea for a kid's birthday party! I would hit the sprinkles pretty hard myself. ;)

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