Recipe for the season: Fruit Pizza

Lake Forest Park resident Karen Dixon shares this recipe with us - perfect for the beautiful strawberries available at our farmers' markets. Karen says, "It is really very easy to make and I look for ideas for arranging fruit from pictures - usually from the grocery store ads."

Fruit Pizza
Photo by Karen Dixon

Fruit Pizza

There are a lot of fruit pizza recipes with different crusts (you can use a pie crust or even brownies), different cream cheese toppings and, of course, different fruit. I buy my pizza pans from the Dollar Store. You can also get a pizza cutter at the dollar store, wrap this pizza up in cellophane and you have a delicious gift. This is the recipe that has worked best for me.

1 roll of refrigerated sugar cookies

1 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Assorted fruit (I used frozen peaches which I thawed and blotted with a paper towel so they wouldn't be wet)

1/2 cup apple jelly (optional)

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 12 inch pizza pan. Press the cookie dough onto the bottom of the pizza pan to form the crust.

Bake approximately 20 minutes until the crust is golden brown and then cool it completely.

Beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla with a mixer until fluffy and spread onto the cooled cookie crust.

Arrange the fruit on top of the cream cheese. Stir the apple jelly until it is smooth and brush it over the fruit. Make sure to keep the jelly off of the cookie crust or it will get soggy.   

Refrigerate until chilled, cut into pizza slices and ENJOY!