Strawberry Pizza

Ingredients:

Favorite sugar cookie recipe or store bought sugar cookie dough 

Strawberries--about a half gallon

8 oz (1 package) cream cheese

confectioners sugar

whipped topping or whipped cream

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Use a round pizza pan

Cover with foil

(Spray with non-stick spray)

put cookie dough on pan

place wax paper on top of the dough

Either smooth down the dough with hand or use a rolling pin to make cookie dough cover the pizza pan ala pizza dough

remove wax paper

-Cook in accordance with cookie dough recipe/instructions. Perform a and b while cookie is in the oven

a. Sweeten cream cheese to desired taste by adding powdered sugar to preferred taste...if unsure start with 1 cup blend in using mixer on medium speed 

b. Hull/remove the green of the strawberries 

cut tops and bottom off strawberries--to be used in 'pizza sauce'. These pieces will be crushed to look like sauce. I used my onion chopper. 

slice strawberries for the 'pepperoni' put aside

1. When giant cookie/'pizza' crust comes out of the oven, spread a thin layer of sweetened cream cheese (scc). Let cookie cool and the sweetened cream cheese harden.

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2. Using the tops and bottoms of the strawberries, crush strawberries to make 'pizza' sauce.

Spread the strawberry sauce on the hardened sweetened cream cheese. 

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3. I used a cake decorating bag, but this can be done using a ziploc bag or other inventive way to add the sweetened cream cheese. 

Zig-zag the sweetened cream cheese across the strawberry sauce.

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4.  Starting from the middle of the 'pizza', spiral the whip cream (from a bag or the can) to the outside of the pizza

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5.  Garnish with strawberry slices (to look like pepperoni)

Ta-Da Strawberry Pizza!

My tip--To add sausages (or for a red-white-and blue look)--just toss on some blueberries!