Fruit Pizza Minis

Recipe: 

Crust: 

2 pkgs. Sugar cookie dough 

(Store-bought or homemade for 48 cookies)

1st Layer:

1 1/2 - 8 oz pkgs cream cheese

3/4 c. sugar

3 t. vanilla

2nd Layer:

Fruit of choice 

I typically use kiwi, strawberries, canned pineapple, and canned mandarine oranges.

Glaze

1/2 c. sugar

1 T. + 1 t. cornstarch

dash salt

1/2 c. orange juice

1/4 c. water

2 T. lemon juice

Combine sugar, cornstarch, salt, orange juice, water, and lemon juice together and bring to a boil.

Boil at least 2 minutes, or until thick like pudding. 

Allow to cool. {To rush cooling process, place in freezer.}

Arrange cookies on cookie sheet.

Bake.  Allow them to cool.

While cookies are baking and cooling, cream together the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla.  

{You might want to take a lick of this to make sure that it is satisfactory ( : }

For the fruit, make sure to have enough pieces of each type of fruit to put onto 48 cookies.  

Slice the kiwi and halve them.  

Slice the strawberries.

Drain off the juices (I ONLY get canned fruit in 100% juice).  

{Go ahead and drink the juice, or save it.} 

Spread the cream cheese mixture all over each cookie.

MMMmmmm.

Arrange the fruit prettily on each cookie. 

Spoon the glaze over each cookie. 

OH YEAH.  

Now try one or two or three.

Enjoy!

To make this into a single pizza, make the changes according to the following recipe: 

Crust: 

1 pkg Sugar Cookie Dough 

(store-bought or homemade for 24 cookies)  

1st Layer:

1- 8 oz pkg cream cheese

1/2 c. sugar

2 t. vanilla

2nd Layer:

Fruit of choice 

I typically use kiwi, strawberries, canned pineapple, and canned mandarine oranges.

Glaze

1 c. sugar

2 1/2 T. cornstarch

dash salt

3/4 c. orange juice

3/4 c. water

1/4 c. lemon juice

Grease pizza pan and press sugar cookie dough evenly onto it. {It helps to slice it into 1/8" slices and then press together.}  Bake at 350* for 10 min.  DO NOT OVER BAKE.   Follow the remaining steps in the Fruit Pizza Minis recipe.  

You'll notice that the Minis dough is doubled, the 1st layer is 1 1/2 batch and the glaze is 1/2 batch.