Anyway, I thought I would share a dessert recipe. I made this for the Superbowl party with young adults from our church. This was totally the best thing ever. I promise you will not be able to eat just one. We had left over toppings (fruit and dip) and my husband and I attacked it in one night. Now I'm thinking I'm gonna have to redo this recipe soon.
Ok enough talking, let's get to good stuff! Sorry for the photo, I forgot to take one before cutting it up and starting to eat it!
Ingredients*
For the crust:
1/2 cup butter, soft
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
Sauce:
1 pkg cream cheese (8oz), softened
2 cups of whipped cream (I make my own but if you want you can use bought)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
Homemade Whipped cream:
In an electric mixer, beat together 2 cups of heavy whipping cream, 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tsp vanilla (my mom use to make hers without vanilla, but I like the taste better. I use normal sugar but you could use powder, I would avoid using brown sugar or young whip cream might have a weird look) Leave the mixer on until it forms little peaks when lifted, that's how you know your whip cream is ready. Be careful not to leave it out on the counter too long or it will sort of melt. If that happens you can just beat it a little bit more. BTW I use this whip cream on absolutely everything, it's not more than to buy the ready made one and it tastes much better.
Okay now for the pizza.
Preheat oven to 375
Crust:
In a large bowl, cream the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until smooth, mix in the egg. In another bowl, combine the flour, the cream of tartar, the baking soda and the salt; stir into the butter and sugar mixture until just mixed. Press the dough somewhat thinly on a pizza pan (i have a stone and it worked great on there) into a round shape.
Bake in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes, I think it took me more like 12-15 minutes with the stone, or until lightly browned. Let it cool a little while.
Sauce:
In a bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together, fold in the whipped cream. Spread on cooled crust (you want it to be cool otherwise it will liquefy your sauce mixture.
Now you are ready to put your cut fruits on top, I had strawberries and grapes on hand so that's all I used, but you could pretty much use anything you want. And you can even have fun and make cool designs and what not, use your imagination. I thought of making a football, but I couldn't think of a brown fruit, plus my husband thought that was taking it overboard (I wanted to make brown deviled eggs also).
*If you wanted to make it easier, you could also just use pre-made sugar cookie dough.
*I basically followed this recipe to the T http://www.misshomemade.com/easyfruitpizzarecipe.html
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