Pizza is one of the most
popular foods in the world, so it isn't any wonder that pizza is gaining
popularity as an ending to a meal. Dessert pizzas are fun to make and can be
either fun and funky or incredibly elegant offerings that are great for
parties, a get together, or as an offering on a restaurant menu. Here are the
basics of making a fantastic dessert pizza.
Depending on the type of
dessert pizza you choose to make these pizzas can be refrigerated and serve
cold or warm from the oven. Restaurant menu
Creating a Crust
While you can use a
traditional pizza crust for your dessert pizzas you can also create a more
dessert worthy crust using graham crackers, short bread, or even various cookie
doughs. If you use cookie dough and plan on cooking the toppings, you will want
the dough to be super thin so that the cookie will cook and the toppings
(especially marshmallows) won't burn or get overly cooked. You can also cook
the crust first and then add cold toppings to the crust once it cools.
Base Layer
The base layer is the layer
that on a traditional pizza would be the coating of sauce. Some great choices
of the base layer of a dessert pizza may include the following:
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Nutella
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Peanut butter and honey
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Cream Cheese (with sugar or honey)
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Honey
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Whipped topping
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Or any combination of these ingredients
One popular base layer is a
simple layer made much like a cheese cake. You can use cream cheese, sugar, and
whipped topping to make a no bake cream cheese type base layer than can be use
to make a number of great toppings shine. Nutella is a chocolate and nut
spread, that can turn a dessert pizza into something delicious and decant,
while whipped topping can create a light and fluffy dessert.
An Amazing Amount of
Toppings
One of the best things about
a dessert pizza is that there are unlimited ingredients that can be used to
create toppings for your pizza. You can choose a variety of berries, pineapple,
bananas, and numerous other fruits as well as coconut,
marshmallows and candy sprinkles. Chocolate, peanut butter, or butterscotch
chips are great to add as pizza toppings both in their natural form or melted.
If you are looking to make
an elegant dessert pizza to impress family, friends, or guests try making a
pizza using a short bread crust, a base layer of cream cheese mixed with
nutella, and then topped with small strawberries dipped in white chocolate.
For a fun kid's dessert
pizza why not use a cream cheese, whipped topping and sugar base layer over a
graham cracker crust and then the kid's add their own toppings using candy
sprinkles, gummy worms, and other assorted type colorful candies.
You can even prepare
individual dessert pizzas for desserts that are sure to wow anyone. All you
really need to a little imagination and a love of sweets and you can create the
perfect dessert pizza for any occasion or event or simply as an everyday
dessert.
