Fruit Pizza
Serves 10 to 12.
Cooking spray
1 (18-oz.) roll-slice-and-bake sugar cookies
1 (8-oz.) pkg. cream cheese or reduced-fat cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
½ c. sugar
1 banana, sliced
Recipe: Fruit Pizza
May 23, 2008 at 4:24PM
1 c. fresh strawberries, cleaned and sliced
1 to 2 c. white seedless grapes
1 (8-oz.) can crushed pineapple, well drained
Glaze:
1 c. sugar
3 tbsp. cornstarch
Dash salt
¾ c. water
1 c. orange juice
¼ c. lemon juice
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 14-inch pizza pan with cooking spray. Cut cookies 1/8-inch thick and spread close together over the pizza pan. Bake 8 to 10 minutes until browned. Let cool. Mix cream cheese, vanilla and sugar; spread over cooled cookie. Arrange fresh fruit on cream cheese mixture. Mix sugar, cornstarch and salt; add water, orange juice and lemon juice in saucepan. Bring to the boil; cook 1 minute until slightly thickened. Cool. Pour evenly over fruit and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Nutrition information per 1/12 serving:
Calories400
Carbohydrates65 g
Protein5 g
Fat14 g
including sat. fat5 g
Cholesterol15 mg
Sodium330 mg
Calcium50 mg
Dietary fiber2 g
Diabetic exchanges per serving: ½ fruit exch., 2 bread/ starch exch., 2 other carb. exch., and 3 fat exch.
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