best dessert recipes: Fruit Pizza

Fruit Pizza

I enjoyed my weekend in Little Rock with Angela and Ginger. There wasn't time to do everything that I wanted to do, but Ginger and I got several projects completed. One food item that Ginger asked for while I was visiting was Fruit Pizza. The grandchildren are all big fruit fans and putting it in a pizza form just makes it that much more appealing. I think most every cook has a version of Fruit Pizza, and mine never looks the same twice. I have a basic recipe that I use, but the fruit can be changed according to taste.

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Fruit Pizza
Crust and Filling
1 roll of refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 package (8 ounce) cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Any fruit: blueberries, strawberries, pineapples, peaches, mandarin oranges, banana, grapes, or kiwi

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spread cookie dough on a 12-inch greased pizza pan. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool.
In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth; add powdered sugar and vanilla, beat together. Spread on cooled crust.
Arrange fruits in a circular pattern on top of cream cheese mixture.

Glaze
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup orange juice

In a small saucepan, whisk together sugar and cornstarch; stir in orange juice. Cook and stir until glaze thickens, cool. Pour over fruits. Refrigerate fruit pizza at least 1 hour before serving.

Angela didn't have a round pizza pan, so I substituted a cookie sheet that I had sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. The sugar cookie dough will roll out easily if you place it between two sheets of parchment paper, then use a rolling pin to flatten it.