This recipe was created after tasting strawberry pizza twice during our annual spring strawberry festival. Plant City which hosts the annual Strawberry Festival and Brandon, where they specialize in serving this delicious treat are a long drive from my house so after some experimentation I created this recipe which has received amazing reviews from family and friends.

Lisa’s Strawberry Pizza

2 pkg of prepared sugar cookie dough
2 or 3 quarts of strawberries, the amount is at your descretion,
1 container of strawberry glaze
1/2 C sugar divided
whipped cream
2 pkg’s softened cream cheese
1 tsp vanilla extract

Peel cookie dough from packaging and place in a medium sized bowl, mash the two packages of dough together and form a ball of cookie dough. Grease a round pizza pan or use a non greased pizza stone. Roll this cookie dough out to form a large circle filling the pizza stone/pan.

Preheat oven to recommeneded cookie baking temperature on packaging. Bake the rolled out pizza size sugar cookie at recommended temp, watching it closely as you don’t want it over done, just a nice golden brown. Let it cool on the pizza pan/stone.

Wash and clean the strawberries and cut them into halves. Sprinkle them with the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar and let sit until the large sugar cookie is cool.

In a small bowl mix together softened cream cheese, a tsp vanilla extract and 1/4 cup of sugar, you may decide upon more. Mix these ingredients completely and taste to see if you have acquired a sweet enough mixture. Set aside

When the cookie has cooled to the touch, cover it thickly with the cream cheese mixture.
Mix the strawberries and the glaze together and spoon this fruit thickened mixture over the cream cheese topping.
Let this chill in the refrigerator for an hour or as long as you can stand to wait.
When serving the Strawberry Pizza top it with a dollop of whipped cream.
This should make at least eight servings or more, depending upon how large you make your slices.
Plan on this dissapearing quickly!