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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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Grandma’s Sugar Cookies

Grandma's Sugar Cookies

 

 

This has been a crazy week of packing up my Mom and trying to see all my friends and family.  Today the kids and I took a break and made some sugar cookies for Halloween.  I used a recipe given to me by my husband’s Grandma, of course I had to make a few changes to make the cookies vegan.  The kids get very few treats like this, so they were very excited and had a great time helping.  I think they had more frosting on them than got on the cookies.

 

Sugar Cookies

1 cup non-hydrogenated vegetable shortening

2 Cups sugar

1 cup soy milk at room temp.

2 tsp lemon extract

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

5 cups unbleached flour

 

Cream the shortening and the sugar in a mixer.  Once it is combined (about 5 minutes) and fluffy add the milk and the lemon extract.  In a large bowl combine the dry ingredients.  Add the dry ingredients to the wet slowly and mix just until combined.  Refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 400.  Roll out half of the dough (keep the other 1/2 refrigerated until ready to use) on a well floured surface about 1/2 inch thick and cut out the cookies.  Place the cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake 8 to 10 minutes until the edges are lightly browned.  Remove the cookies from the pan and let cool on a rack.  Cool completely before frosting.

 

Frosting

1/4 cup earth balance

1/4 cup shortening

3 cups powdered sugar

3 tbsp soy milk

1/2 tsp lemon or vanilla extract

 

In a mixer combine the butter and the shortening.  Add in the powdered sugar and mix slowly until the sugar combines with the butter and shortening. Mix at high speed for about 5 minutes.  Add in the milk and flavoring and mix another 5 minutes until it is light and fluffy.  Chill the frosting for at least 15 minutes before you use it.

This recipe can be doubled to frost a cake as well.

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