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Pizza Party: Make your own Pizzas and Fruit Salad

Vegan pizza bar

Vegan Fruit Salad

My best friend just graduated from college with a degree in Civil Engineering, so we had a little party to help her celebrate her amazing accomplishment.  She worked so hard to go to school, work, and raise 4 kids.  She is so inspiring.  We ended up having a little pool party with all of our kids, so we decided to let them all make their own pizzas.  I cut the dough into individual sized pizzas and my husband grilled them.  Just use you favorite store bought pizza dough or make you own.  Then the kids put on all their favorite toppings and we put them bak on the grill to melt the cheese.  On the side we had a huge fruit salad because all the kids are fruit fanatics.  I tossed the fruit in a honey lime dressing, which gave it a little more sweetness and some tang.  This is a great party idea, especially when you are serving vegans and non-vegans together.  Everyone ends up happy!

 

Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

 

About 6 Cups of your favorite fresh fruit (watermelon, mango, cantaloupe, berries)

Juice of 2 limes

2 TBSP of honey or agave

2 TBSP Fresh mint chopped (optional)

 

Cut all the fruit into bite sized pieces and place in a large serving bowl.  In a small bowl mix together the lime juice and honey until it is well combined.  Pour it over the fruit and toss to coat the fruit.  Add in the mint if you are using it.  Serve chilled.

 

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Fruit Pizza

Fruit Pizza

Fruit Pizza

This was our dessert on Valentine’s Day.  My daughter saw a non-vegan version of fruit pizza in one of her magazine’s and kept asking me to make it.  I am so glad that I finally gave in and made it.  It was so good and I have never seen kids so eager to eat fruit before.  This is a great recipe to get the kids involved in making.  They can help with the cookie dough and help with decorating it with the fruit.   I replaced half of the white flour in the cookie recipe with whole wheat white flour and it turned out really good.  I think fruit pizza may be my new favorite dessert (except for chocolate of course).

 

 

Fruit Pizza

 

1/2 recipe for Grandma’s Sugar Cookies well chilled  (the other 1/2 can be frozen)

1 container of vegan cream cheese at room temperature or 1 recipe for frosting (on link above)

1/4 Cup of powdered sugar, if using cream cheese

3 cups of sliced fruit:  Strawberries, blueberries, kiwi, bananas

 

Preheat the oven to 400.  Roll out the sugar cookie dough to about a 1/2 inch thick.  You can make it round or rectangle depending on the shape of your baking pan.  Line your baking pan with parchment or use a silpat.  Bake the cookie for 12 minutes until the edges begin to brown.  Keep the cookie on the pan for at least 1o minutes to harden enough to move to a cooling rack or you can leave it on the pan.   Let the cookie cool completely.  If you are using cream cheese mix it with the powdered sugar.   Frost the cookie with cream cheese mixture or the frosting.  Top with the fruit and chill for at least 30 minutes.  Slice and serve.

 

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