This recipe was created after enjoying strawberry pizza during Florida’s annual Strawberry Festival in Plant City. After some experimentation I created this recipe which has received amazing reviews from family and friends.
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Lisa’s Strawberry Pizza
2 pkg of prepared sugar cookie dough
2 or 3 quarts of strawberries
1 container of strawberry glaze
1/2 C sugar divided
whipped cream
2 pkg’s softened cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla extract
Peel cookie dough from packaging and place in a medium sized bowl, mash the two packages of dough together and form a ball of cookie dough. Grease a round pizza pan or use a non greased pizza stone. Roll this cookie dough out to form a large circle filling the pizza stone/pan.
Preheat oven to recommeneded cookie baking temperature on package. Bake the rolled out pizza size sugar cookie at recommended temperature. Watch the cookie closely as you want it a golden brown. Let it cool on the pizza pan/stone.
Wash and clean the strawberries and cut them into halves. Sprinkle your strawberries with the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar and let them sit until the large sugar cookie is cool.
In a small bowl mix together softened cream cheese, a tsp vanilla extract and 1/4 cup of sugar, you may decide upon more. Mix these ingredients completely and taste to see if you have acquired a sweet enough mixture. Set aside
When the cookie has cooled to the touch, cover it thickly with the cream cheese mixture. Mix the strawberries and the glaze together and spoon this fruit thickened mixture over the cream cheese topping.
Let this chill in the refrigerator for an hour or as long as you can stand to wait. When serving the Strawberry Pizza top it with a dollop of whipped cream. This should make at least eight servings; possibly more.