Our favorite food -- pizza -- starts on farms. Well, dessert pizzas start on farms too! Everything from the flour, cream cheese and sugar, to all those yummy fruit toppings are grown on farms across the United States.
Fruit pizza could be a wonderful addition to your Easter dessert table. And as luck would have it, we went back into the spring 1999 Dakota Family archives and found this fruit pizza photo and recipe. Enjoy!
Fruit Pizza
Ingredients
1/2 cup powdered sugar
3/4 cup margarine or butter, softened
1 1/2 cups flour
1 8 oz. package cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
a variety of fruits, sliced
2 1/2 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 cup fruit juice
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. lemon juice
Instructions
Combine the first three ingredients to make the crust and pat into the bottom of a pizza pan. Bake at 300 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Cool.
Combine cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla. Spread on top of cooled crust. Arrange sliced fruit in attractive pattern over the cream cheese mixture. Combine the cornstarch, fruit juice, 3/4 cup sugar and lemon juice and bring to a boil, cooking until slightly thickened. Cool and spread over the fruit layer.