Serve pizza for dessert tonight! This Caramel Apple Sugar Cookie Pizza features juicy apples and chopped nuts baked on a soft cookie crust with caramel cheesecake topping. Drizzled with caramel, it’s the perfect easy dessert for fall.
It’s finally caramel apple season! Make a batch of this luscious Caramel Apple Dip or these Caramel Apple Empanadas next.
Why this Recipe is the Best
Pizza isn’t limited to just dinner. While you may enjoy our Taco Pizza recipe or even our slow cooker pizza soup, finishing up with a dessert pizza is the perfect reward.
Making a cookie pizza is so easy! You may remember this Macadamia Cookie Pizza I shared a couple years ago!
It was the inspiration for today’s recipe.
- Instead of macadamias, I used cashews in this version. Their natural sweetness is a terrific match for the apple flavor.
- A layer of cream cheese holds everything together.
- The dessert pizza gets drizzled generously caramel sauce for a decadent touch.
My goal for this recipe was easy. Delicious. Convenient. I think it’s been achieved! You’ll have to try our easy caramel apple cupcake recipe next!
Ingredient Notes
- Sugar cookie dough. I used refrigerated sugar cookie dough. Feel free to use a homemade sugar cookie dough instead if you prefer. Whether you choose a tube of dough or the break and bakes is fine…they will all get pressed into a circle.
- Apples. Peeled and cut into slices. You’ll need about 4 medium sized apples.
- Caramel sauce. We use the bottled sauce that you put on ice cream. You can use our homemade caramel sauce or even butterscotch sauce if you prefer.
- Cashews. Peanuts are also a delicious option, or keep it nut free.
Easy Instructions
- Place the sugar cookie dough onto a round pizza stone. Use the heel of your hand to stretch the dough into a disk.
- Bake the cookie dough crust for 15 minutes. Let cool.
- While it’s baking, beat together the cream cheese and powdered sugar. Beat in 1/4 cup of the caramel sauce.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture over the cooled crust. Arrange apple slices and cashew pieces on top.
Finally, drizzle the whole sugar cookie pizza with the rest of the caramel sauce. Slice and serve!
Recipe FAQs
If you don’t have a pizza stone, you can bake this on a cookie sheet. Shape the dough into a rectangle on the cookie sheet before baking. Slice into squares for serving.
I like apples with a bit of tartness to balance the sweetness of the caramel. Honeycrisp and pink lady apples are delicious choices!
Leftover Caramel Apple Sugar Cookie Pizza should be covered and stored in the refrigerator. Good luck having any leftovers of this one, though. When I made it, no one could resist coming back for an extra slice (or two)!
More Easy Fall Recipes
- Apple Pie Poke Cake: delicious cake recipe that’s perfect for the holidays!
- Apple Crumble
- Homemade Caramels
- Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
- Classic Apple Pie
- Pumpkin Crumb Cake
- Pumpkin Scones– like Starbucks!
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Caramel Apple Sugar Cookie Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 package refrigerated sugar cookie dough 16.5 ounce
- 1 package cream cheese, softened 8 ounce
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup caramel sauce
- 4 ½ cups sliced apples about 4 apples
- ½ cup chopped cashews
- 3 Tablespoons caramel sauce
Instructions
- Line a 15-inch round baking sheet (pizza stone) with parchment paper. Heat oven to 350 degree.
- Open package of sugar cookie dough and press it onto the parchment paper with the heel of your hand. Press evenly into a 12-inch circle. Bake for 15-18 minutes.
- Meanwhile, beat cream cheese with powdered sugar and 1/4 cup caramel sauce. Blend for about 3-5 minutes until light and fluffy.
- Spread cream cheese over cooled cookie pizza. Arrange sliced apples over cream cheese layer.
- Add chopped cashews and drizzle with remaining caramel sauce. Slice and enjoy!
Notes
- Using pre-sliced apples makes this recipe even easier! Find them already peeled and ready to use in the produce section of your grocery store.
- Line the pizza stone with parchment paper before adding the sugar cookie dough. It helps prevent sticking and makes removing the baked crust easier.
- Feel free to swap the cashews for walnuts, pecans or peanuts.
- Love caramel and apples? Try these delicious caramel apple cheesecake bars next!
- See the blog post for more recipe tips and tricks.
Nutrition
An easy dessert pizza recipe with apples and gooey caramel. This Sugar Cookie Pizza will bring big smiles to your table!
I’ll take sweet dessert pizza over cheesy savory pizza any day! I mean, caramel apples and sugar cookies combined can’t possibly be wrong!! 🙂
Haha, I agree wholeheartedly!!!
YUM! I want this for breakfast! Looks delicious.
Too much pizza? Is that a thing?!?! Well I wouldn’t mind the Caramel Apple Sugar Cookie Pizza making an appearance either!
My kids would really love this kind of pizza!
Sugar cookie pizza is my favorite kind of pizza! Especially with that caramel cream cheese topping? Droooooling.
This is my kind of Friday night pizza dinner! Apples and caramel for the win, always!
Perfect way to switch up pizza night! We can’t resist a good dessert pizza!
Ohhh! This looks so good! Can you tell me what keeps the Crunch Pak apples from “browning” ? They are not available in my area so I will use apples that I will peel and slice.
After you slice your fresh apples you can give them a little squirt of lemon juice to keep them from browning. ENJOY
Holy cow…what a genius idea!! We always do Saturday night pizza night in our house…and now we can do a dessert pizza, too. Is it Saturday yet?? 🙂
Definitely add this to your pizza night!! It’s a great treat 🙂
Too much pizza??? Never!!! Friday nights are almost always pizza night in our house…so far no complaining from anyone! I love this fun sweet pizza though! And of course Crunch Pak apples are the best 🙂 Cookie dough, caramel, and apple…match made in heaven!
Yeah, maybe we need to change up our pizza nights. Try different pizzas. Restaurants, etc….
OMG, you’re right. We DO share the same brain!
Love this. Love caramel and apples. Love pizza. It’s just love everywhere!
Told ya!!
Dessert pizzas are the best, especially when you make them yourself!
My sentiments exactly Nancy 🙂
This is like ULTIMATE fun food! And I want some nowwww 🙂
I don’t think anyone can ever have too much pizza! This dessert pizza looks amazing. I really like the sugar cookie crust.
Yeah I supposed any crust would be good here too…but you’re right, the sugar cookie crust just fits so well 🙂
This is the perfect quick and convenient dessert! I can never have too many of those in my stash.
what a fun dessert. the best of all as a pizza!
I almost made one of these in the summer with berries but just…didn’t. I even bought the sugar cookie dough! Then I ate it 🙂 Pinned, love it!
That’s too funny!! Thanks for pinning 🙂
This cookie pizza would be so fun to make on the weekend with my kids! Love the apples and caramel! Pinned!
Thanks for pinning Anna. With the ready made cookie dough, this one is a breeze to have the kids help bake!
First of all, it is impossible to eat too much Chicago deep dish pizza. Especially if Lou Malnati’s is involved. 😉 But, it is ok to take a small break from it to eat this yummy looking caramel apple pizza!!! pinned. 🙂
I love Lou’s. They are opening one across the street from me (OMG I’m in trouble, LOL)!!
Break me off a slice of this! A cookie covered in sweetened cream cheese, caramel, and apples is pure dessert heaven. Love it!
Thanks Jen! You’re right, it is dessert heaven 🙂