Tropical Fruit Pizza: Associated Food Stores Weekly Recipe
Summertime entertaining should be easy and fun, and kids of all ages will love to dig in to this Tropical Fruit Pizza. What is better on a warm summer day than fresh seasonal fruit? Easy and picture-perfect, Tropical Fruit Pizza is a great way to enjoy all that this season has to offer. Be creative and substitute yours or your family’s favorite fruits. Kids will have so much fun arranging the sliced fruit on the pizza pie! Kids and adults, alike will come running to this fantastic tropical decadence.
Tropical Fruit Dessert Pizza from The New Holly Clegg trim&TERRIFIC Cookbook
Makes 12 servings
1 (18-ounce) roll refrigerated ready-to-slice sugar cookie dough
1/3 cup Shurfine sugar
1 (8-ounce) package Shurfresh fat-free cream cheese
1 teaspoon coconut extract
11/2 teaspoons grated orange rind
1 cup Shurfine fat-free frozen whipped topping, thawed
1 (26-ounce) jar mango slices, drained, or 1 fresh mango, sliced
1 (16-ounce) can Shurfine pineapple slices, drained, or 1 fresh pineapple, sliced
1 (11-ounce) can mandarin orange segments, drained
1/4 cup apricot preserves
1 tablespoon orange liqueur or Shurfine orange juice
2 tablespoons Shurfine coconut, toasted, optional
1. Preheat oven 350ºF.
2. Press cookie dough into a 12-14-in pizza pan coated with nonstick cooking spray. Bake 12 minutes, cool completely.
3. In medium mixing bowl, blend together sugar, cream cheese, coconut extract until well mixed. Stir in orange rind and whipped topping, mixing until smooth. Spread cream cheese mixture on top of cooled crust.
4. Arrange mango slices around edge of iced pizza. Then, arrange roll of pineapple slices around edge. Next, arrange mandarin orange slices in another ring to fill center of pizza.
5. In small saucepan or in microwave, heat apricot preserves and orange liqueur just until melted. Spoon glaze over fruit. Sprinkle with toasted coconut, if desired. Refrigerate until serving.
Nutritional information per serving
Calories 269, Protein (g) 4, Carbohydrate (g) 48, Fat (g) 6, Calories from Fat (%) 21, Saturated Fat (g) 2, Dietary Fiber (g) 0, Cholesterol (mg) 5, Sodium (mg) 253 Diabetic Exchanges: 1 fruit, 2 other carbohydrate, 1 fat
Terrific Tidbit: Go ahead and grate more orange rind than you’ll need for the recipe — you can grate a whole orange or lemon and freeze the rind in a plastic freezer bag until needed.
