Sugar- Free 4th of July Cookie Dessert Pizza
Red, White and Blue Dessert pizza perfect for the 4th of July made sugar-free with a gluten free cookie crust!
Did you ever make something you’ve been wanting to try for a long time but when you finally did you were like, “why in the world did I wait so long?” Making a dessert pizza has been on my mind forever, but just never got around to making one. I finally had the perfect occasion this past week to share this 4th of July dessert! We were attending a cook out for the beginning of our summer program for the cub scouts. What better way to have some taste testers than a ton of kids and parents right? I prepared the dough in the morning. Let it cool, decorated it, took some pics in the afternoon and plopped it in the fridge with plastic wrap over it until the evening. Easy peasy!
I’m pleased to report making it ahead and storing it in the fridge already prepared worked out just fine. The dough was perfect as were the berries and cream. The taste testers loved it! Even the parents who many are not gluten free or sugar free raved about it. We came home with just 3 pieces left. I’d say that’s a win!
The dough is super simple and holds up perfectly to anything you want to place on it. It was easy to cut and pick up and enjoy. Perfect finger food for a party!
Obviously this doesn’t have to be decorated like a flag but since the 4th of July is approaching I thought it quite festive.
Make sure to grease the pan well or the dough will stick. Yes I did bring it to cub scouts with a piece missing. I had to take it’s pic and had to taste it myself to make sure it was good. 🙂
Brenda’s Notes:
- In hindsight I think sliced cherries would look better because they are more equal in size. Either are delicious though!
- You can still make this recipe if you don’t have any erythritol or liquid stevia, here’s my conversion chart.
- The natural occurring sugar grams are from the fresh fruit and cream used.
- I used Bob’s Red Mill all purpose gluten free flour.
- If you don’t need to use gluten free flour you can sub whole wheat flour and remove the xanthan gum.
Sugar- Free 4th of July Cookie Dessert Pizza
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 3/4 cup erythritol
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1 egg
- 3 yolks
- zest of 1 lemon
- 3 tablespoons milk 1%
- pinch salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- 2 1/4 cup gluten free flour
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
Topping
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla liquid stevia
- 1 cup blueberries
- 16 ounces strawberries sliced in half
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a stand mixer beat the first 8 ingredients together until smooth.
- Whisk the flour with the xanthan gum then slowly pour it into the wet ingredients in the stand mixer until a dough forms.
- Grease a baking sheet then spread the dough out onto the sheet by hand or use a rolling pin.
- Bake 10 minutes until golden.
- Allow to cool before adding topping.
- To make whipped cream, beat the heavy cream with the vanilla liquid stevia until stiff peaks form.
- Spread over the crust and decorate with berries.
- Keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
I made it and it was phenomenal, everyone ate it and loved it . It was delicious. Then I looked at the Carbs and was a bit alarmed. Can you PM me or post about how to figure the sugar alcohols, I need net carbs please. I know the net carb count will be lower. I just wanted your guidance about how to count the erythritol. I use your recipes all the time and love them.
If you followed this recipe this one is using gluten free flour so this is not my low carb version. I adapted this one after I went low carb a few years ago. This one was posted when I was just sugar free back in 2014. Here’s the updated version which is what you may have made and just commented on the wrong one perhaps? https://www.sugarfreemom.com/recipes/low-carb-patriotic-dessert-pizza-grain-free/
Any suggestions on how to tweak this if I wanted to use Almond Flour?
I need to work on an adaption for low carb, it’s always experimenting with me so your guess for tweaking would be as good as mine until I test it out, sorry!
Heck yeah this is a WIN!! I want it all! Swerve or not, just bring it ON! 😀
Happy 4th! xo
Hi, do you know if I could substitute erythritol for Swerve? thank yo so much! :o)
Swerve is erythritol so yes.
I love ALL pizza, but you went and made a dessert pizza and now I love you!
Hahahah thank you Angela!
LOVE this cookie pizza! It’s such a great option for people who have issues with sugar.
Thank you, I think so. 🙂
Looks fabulous! I made something similar last week, but it was not sugar-free- I’ll have to switch it up next time.
Quite popular this time of year so I had to make one sugar free. 🙂
So fun and perfect for the 4th.
I have always loved these cakes and I think I love it even more now that you’ve made it into a cookie!!!
Thanks Angie!
This is festive as well as delicious! I know I wouldn’t turn down a slice of it!
I adore dessert pizza! This is perfect for the 4th (or really any day! 😉 )
It’s been years and years since I made a dessert pizza. Thanks for reminding how much fun they are!
What a fun patriotic dessert! Love that it’s on the healthy side 🙂
Happy 4th of July! This looks beautiful and I love your cookie dough bottom layer.
Love this as it reminds me of the cake my Nana would make every year at the shore – long before Pinterest existed 🙂 I’m not surprised this was a hit at the Scout cook out!
I LOVE dessert pizza! This looks amazing and so cute for the 4th!