Betty’s Fresh Fruit Pizza Dessert Recipe
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In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make a lovely dessert pizza. It has a large chocolate chip cookie crust, a spread that is cream cheese frosting, and toppings of fresh strawberries, pineapple, kiwi fruit, and red seedless grapes. It makes a dramatic appearance and tastes luscious! Ingredients: 16.5 oz. roll of refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough 1 stick butter or margarine, softened to room temperature 8 oz. package cream cheese, softened to room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 16 oz. box confectioner’s sugar 1/2 quart fresh strawberries, washed, dried, and halved 1/2 fresh pineapple, peeled, cored, and cubed 1 kiwi fruit, peeled, halved, and sliced 1/2 cup red seedless grapes, washed, dried, and halved (You may use whole blueberries.) Heat oven to 400 degrees. Cut the cookie dough into slices, about 3/8-inch thick. Place them in a circle on an ovenproof pizza dish or on a cookie sheet. Fill the circles all the way in to the center of the pizza dish. Now, use your hands to press the cookie dough evenly over the bottom of the pizza dish. Leave a little space around the outer edge, and smooth it up a bit. Place the large cookie in the oven, and bake for 10 to 14 minutes, until light golden brown, and done throughout. Let the large cookie cool to room temperature. (You can speed this up by placing it in the refrigerator for an hour or so after it has cooled a bit naturally. ) While your cookie is cooling, make you cream cheese frosting spread: In a large …
Betty’s Chocolate Turtle Dessert Pizza Recipe
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In this video, Betty demonstrates how to make a sinfully rich, delightfully decadent dessert, Chocolate Turtle Dessert Pizza. It’s a mixture of everything you love–but it is not light on the calories! Ingredients; 16 oz. Nestle Toll House Brownie Bites cookie dough 1/2 recipe of cream cheese frosting (See Betty’s Fresh Fruit Pizza for the recipe, or used canned frosting.) 8 oz. caramel topping toppings–some combination of any of these: miniature marshmallows, semisweet chocolate chips, chopped pecans, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, milk chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, maraschino cherries, sliced almonds For garnish: Reddi-Wip stemmed maraschino cherries Separate the squares of brownie mix and place evenly in a pizza pan (or in a circle on a cookie sheet). Use your fingers to press the squares together, forming a complete circle. Place in a 350-degree oven, and bake about 11 to 15 minutes. (Do not over-bake.) Remove from oven and cool completely. (You may speed this up by placing the large brownie circle in a refrigerator, after it has cooled a bit.) When the brownie circle is cool, spread the cream cheese frosting over the top. Next, drizzle the caramel topping over the cream cheese frosting, using about half of the jar. Now, place your toppings on the “pizza.” You may choose from any of the above, as many as you like, and add others that appeal to you. Place each topping in a circle on top of the caramel topping, with the circles getting …
