Fruit Pizza Recipe
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Ingredients: For pizza "crust" :
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup Crisco shortening
2 cups flour
1 egg
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tbsp milk or half n' half
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
For cream layer:
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp heavy cream
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
For fruit layer:
Assorted fruits, I like a mixture of bananas, strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, clementine segments, pineapple pieces, raspberries
For Glaze:
1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp butter
1/4 cup vanilla extract
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Directions:Beat butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium until combined and smooth. Add 1 cup of the flour, sugar, baking powder, egg, milk, vanilla and salt. Beat until thoroughly combined. Add remaining cup of flour, beat until combined. Place in bowl, cover with plastic wrap and chill for an hour (or more, if desired.)
Preheat oven to 325º. Lightly spray a 14" pizza pan with cooking spray. Remove dough from the refrigerator and press evenly into pizza pan, making a 1/2" ridge around the edge, like the edge crust on a pizza. Bake for 10-12 minutes until light golden brown and center is set. Set aside to cool.
For creamy layer, beat softened cream cheese together with powdered sugar until smooth. Add cream and vanilla extract, beat until smooth. Spread evenly over cooled crust, just up to the 1/2" edge you made on the crust.
Arrange your chosen fruit over the cream cheese layer. I like to make concentric circles of each fruit, covering the cream cheese layer.
For glaze, place orange juice, powdered sugar and butter in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Let cool. Drizzle over fruit on the pizza in a pretty pattern.
Cut into wedges to serve. This is a very rich dessert, so you can easily cut into 16 pieces and it will be a nice portion. |
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Time:1 hour 30 minutes, including baking and chilling |
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Notes: When I first found this recipe it called for the tube of refrigerated sugar cookie dough you can buy at the market and that works well for this recipe, but I wanted to make this and had all the ingredients for it except the cookie dough, so I got out an old cookbook and found this sugar cookie dough recipe, which I think makes a great crust for this dessert. (Nannie's sugar cookie dough recipe is too fragile for this, it would just fall apart.) My niece Lindsey made this as individual "cookies" for Jim and I and they were very pretty and delicious - try it both ways!
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