Guide Note

Dessert pizzas can be prepared with a variety of sweet toppings, laid on a thin, pizza-like crust.

Fast Facts

1. Commonly topped with fruit or candy bars
2. How served: Dessert or snack
3. Domino's Pizza introduced an Oreo cookie dessert pizza in 2007
4. Can be prepared with refrigerated cookie dough

• 1 cup butter
• 2/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 1/3 cups flour
• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 2 tablespoon honey
• 3 1/2 pints fresh strawberries, washed and stems removed
• 1 teaspoon water

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine the butter and 2/3 cup of the sugar using an electric mixer.
3. Add the egg, vanilla, salt and baking powder and mix well.
4. Add the flour 1/2 cup at a time and continue to mix until a smooth dough forms.
5. Refrigerate the dough for 20 minutes.
6. Roll the dough to a circular shape and 1/4 inch thickness.
7. Place the dough on a pizza pan and bake for 25 minutes of until the crust is lightly browned.
8. Puree 1/2 pint of the strawberries in a blender.
9. Mix the strawberry puree with the cream cheese, one tablespoon of the honey and the remaining two tablespoons of sugar, until smooth.
10. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the cooled crust, leaving a 1/2 inch border around the edges.
11. Top with the remaining whole strawberries.
12. Mix the remaining one tablespoon of honey and the water and brush the honey mixture over the strawberries.
13. Cut into 12 slices, serve and enjoy!