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Apple Dessert Pizza (+Video)

This Apple Dessert Pizza is a quick dessert that everyone loves! Pizza crust, apple pie filling, crumble topping and a sweet icing drizzle.

A FUN WEEKNIGHT DESSERT RECIPE

This dessert pizza used to be a favorite of mine at Pizza Hut when I was a kid. I would get my free “Book-It” pizza (earned by reading lots of books) and then grab a couple of slices of the dessert pizza off the buffet. So, I figured I would try to re-create that favorite apple pie pizza!

Easy Apple Dessert Pizza shown on a wooden cutting board with a cut apple off to the side.

CAN I USE DIFFERENT PIE FILLINGS?

The beauty of this dessert pizza is how many options you have. You’re only limited to the number of canned pie fillings you can find. Blueberry, Blackberry, Lemon, Cherry, Strawberry, Peach…you name it.
The only small change you would make would be in the crumb topping. For this apple dessert pizza, I add ground cinnamon to the crumb topping. I probably wouldn’t use the cinnamon with any other pie fillings except for maybe the peach. And with the peach I would cut back the cinnamon to only a teaspoon. I absolutely love cinnamon with apple but you can certainly make it to the taste that your family loves.
Try making this with a homemade pizza dough like I do in my recipe for Cherry Dessert Pizza.

Easy Apple Dessert Pizza recipe from the Country Cook, main image showing a slice of apple pizza with a pizza cutter displayed in the background.

INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)

  • store-bought thin pizza crust
  • apple pie filling
  • salted butter
  • light brown sugar
  • all-purpose flour
  • cinnamon
  • powdered sugar
  • milk
store-bought thin pizza crust, apple pie filling, salted butter, light brown sugar, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, powdered sugar.

HOW TO MAKE EASY APPLE DESSERT PIZZA:

Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Take crust out of package and place on round baking sheet. Now it’s time to stab the apples. Open your can of pie filling and get in there with a sharp knife and pull the knife back and forth across the apples. This will chop them up and give you more apple filling across your whole pizza. I do this a lot with canned apples, remember those EASY APPLE DANISHES?

using a knife to slice apples in half inside a can of apple pie filling.

Spread the apple pie filling evenly on the pizza crust.

apple pie filling spread onto a store-bought thin crust pizza crust.

To make the crumb topping: in a bowl, combine softened butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. You can use a fork, a pastry cutter or your hands to do this.

butter, brown sugar, flour and ground cinnamon in a blue mixing bowl with a fork.

You want the butter to be evenly distributed and the mixture should look nice and crumbly.

fully mixed brown sugar crumble in a blue bowl.

  Sprinkle the crumb topping all over the apple filling.

brown sugar crumble topping sprinkled over apple pie filling on pizza crust.

Bake until heated through and crumb topping is slightly browned. While pizza is cooling, start making the icing. Whisk together powdered sugar and milk. Add milk slowly until you get the consistency you like.

powdered sugar and milk whisked together in a small yellow mixing bowl.

Drizzle icing all across pizza. I usually make a bunch of lines one way, then turn it around and make some more lines the other way. Whatever strikes your fancy. You’ll probably have a little icing leftover. We save that and add a bit more icing to his individual slices. Using a sharp pizza cutter, slice up your pizza and serve!

slice, Apple Dessert pizza with crumble topping, on a small white plate.

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thumbnail, slices Apple Dessert Pizza

Apple Dessert Pizza (+Video)

This Apple Dessert Pizza is a quick dessert that everyone loves! Pizza crust, apple pie filling, crumble topping and a sweet icing drizzle.
4.98 from 34 votes
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 35 minutes
Servings: 6

Ingredients

  • 1 premade thin pizza crust
  • 1 can apple pie filling
  • 4 tablespoons salted butter, softened to room temperature
  • cups brown sugar
  • cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1-2 tablespoons milk

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Take crust out of package and place on round baking sheet.
  • Open your can of pie filling and get in there with a sharp knife and pull the knife back and forth across the apples. This will chop them up and give you more apple filling across your whole pizza.
  • Spread the apple pie filling evenly on the pizza crust.
  • In a bowl, combine softened butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon until crumbly. You can use a fork, a pastry cutter or your hands to do this.
  • Sprinkle the crumb topping all over the apple filling.
  • Bake for about 25-30 minutes, until heated through and crumb topping is slightly browned. 
  • While pizza is cooling, start making the icing. Whisk together powdered sugar and milk. Add milk slowly until you get the consistency you like. Drizzle icing all across pizza.
  • Using a sharp pizza cutter, slice up your pizza and serve!

Video

YouTube video
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Calories: 472kcal | Carbohydrates: 87g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 10g | Sodium: 426mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 44g

Nutritional Disclaimer

“The Country Cook” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.

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Originally published: May 2012
Updated & republished: May 2020

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37 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    I’ll be honest, I insisted on a couple of modifications before baking this. It takes only a few additional minutes to prepare home made apple pie filling, so I cut up a few granny smiths and simmered them in water, sugar, lemon juice, and cornstarch. So much better than the tasteless canned filling! I also made the pizza dough from another online recipe for dessert pizza. Again, the extra time is minimal, but the payout is huge. Assembled with the topping and baked according to the recipe. The icing takes this thing to a whole new level. Served it warm topped with homemade vanilla ice cream, and made my family extremely happy.

  2. 5 stars
    I personally recommend using a regular or thicker pizza crust as I felt it needed a little more crunch but other than that, this recipe is a winner!

  3. 5 stars
    Fixing to make them tonight, Having dinner at my daughters tomorrow, I am supplying the dessert I am sure they will turn out great.