Thursday, January 2, 2014

Fruit Pizza

Pictured: fruit pizza topped with strawberries, bananas, and blueberries.

Original recipe from family.

Ingredients:
Crust:
  • 2 c flour
  • 1 c real butter
  • 1/4 c powder sugar
  • 1/2 c finely chopped pecans or walnuts, opt
Frosting:
  • 1 c powder sugar
  • 1/2 t orange juice concentrate
  • 1 pkg (8 oz) cream cheese (softened)
  • 1 c cool whip
Toppings:
  • diced fruit of choice such as...
  • strawberries
  • blueberries
  • raspberries
  • banana
  • apple
  • manderine orange
  • peach
  • pineapple
  • melon
Directions:
  1. Crust: preheat oven to 350.  Whisk dry ingredients, cut in butter until crumbly.  Press onto cookie sheet.  Crust will be thin; use rolling pin if necessary.  Bake 10-12 min or until crisp and barely browned, cool.
  2. Frosting: cream powdered sugar, orange juice, and cream cheese.  Fold in cool whip.  
  3. Spread frosting on cool crust and top with fruit of choice.  Enjoy!
  4. Also try: 
    1. nixing the crust and making the frosting as a fruit dip.
    2. color coordinate and make patterns for any occasion (strawberries and blueberries make a great 4th of July flag, or shape crust as an egg and decorate for Easter)
    3. cut crust into shapes before baking and decorate individual cookies with fruit 

3 comments:

  1. So the real question is: do you serve this for dinner or dessert?

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    1. Hahaha...the question indeed! If you're a dessert for dinner kind of girl (or family, as the case may be...), then I say go for it! ;)

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  2. Jared tries to convince me over and over how this is a dinner. But I can't be swayed. Poor guy, I don't let him have tapioca pudding for dinner either. :)

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