Cooking with Michy

Prep Time: 25 Min Cook Time: 10 Min Ready In: 1 Hr 35 Min

 Servings: 10

 Ingredients 

• 1/2 cup butter, softened

 • 3/4 cup white sugar

 • 1 egg

 • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

 • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

 • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

 • 1/4 teaspoon salt

 • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese

 • 1/2 cup white sugar

 • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

 2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter and 3/4 cup sugar until smooth. Mix in egg.

 3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended.

 4. Press dough into an ungreased pizza pan.

 5. Bake in preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool.  

6. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese with 1/2 cup sugar and vanilla until light. Spread on cooled crust.

 7. Arrange desired fruit on top of filling, glaze and chill.

 GLAZE:

 Ingredients

 • 2 tablespoons sugar

 • 1-1/2 teaspoons cornstarch

 • 1/4 cup unsweetened pineapple juice

 • 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

 Directions

 1. In a small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch.

 2. Stir in pineapple juice and lemon juice until smooth.

 3. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.

 4. Cool slightly. Drizzle over fruit. Refrigerate until chilled.

 Source: AllRecipes.com

Review: Cooking the fruit pizza was amazing and it tasted good to. We had a really strong start getting everything done on time and making sure everything was done right, the best part was how well our pizza crust turned out it looked so yummy. It wasn’t until later in the class when we hit a bump in the road were our group had a little disagreement, it took us a little bit of time to solve it but eventually we did and were able to get back on track with making the pizza. If I was to make this fruit pizza again I would have liked to be able to choose the fruit we wanted to use so that we could make it a more personal design. I really liked how in this class we learned how to make a glaze. This really intrigued me because it will help me improve the experience of future food I make. Although we had a slight disagreement we still managed to pull it together to make a spectacular pizza!