Because it’s usually hot on the Fourth of August, one of the things I love most is to enjoy fun, easy, and light dishes while we celebrate. One great 4th of July treat is the new fruit pizza. This particular recipe was inspired by my own experiments with many other fruit pizza recipes, along with my personal preferences.
Pizza Ingredients:
1 container of chilled sugar cookie-dough (bad chocolate)
1 bottle of blueberries, washed and de-stimed
1 box of raspberries, washed
1 box strawberries, washed, de-stemmed, sliced (to the bottom)
Shredded coconut, optional
Cheese Frosting Ingredients:
8 oz cream cheese
a cup of sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
Instructions:
sugar cookies Roll out the dough into a round pizza shape, or a standard rectangular shape.
Bake and refrigerate according to package directions.
Leave the baked cookie in the pan, or transfer it to a suitable and sturdy tray. In a medium bowl, combine the cold ingredients. Then, freeze the chilled cake head with cream concrete. frosting
If you are using a round pizza shape for the fourth Nine of Juliet treat, top with the fruit starting at the outer edge and work your way to the center. You’ll want to put a whole strawberry in the middle if you use this recipe. Use one type of fruit for each row. If you want to be creative, you can create a design using your red hair color and blue berries.
If using a flag shape for a Fourth of July treat, use the blueberry on the upper left-handed flag. These represent the filled blue field that surrounds the white stars. Then use raspberries and strawberries to make seven red stripes that alternate with six white stripes.
The American flag in American, the stripes start at the top red, and end at the bottom red. The first seven stripes, starting from the top, are next to the field of the star part of the flag. These strokes begin and end with red. The remaining six stripes run the full width of the flag and begin at white. The strokes in this section end with a rubric.
If you want to add something white to the white areas of your Fourth of July treat so more than frosting, cover the star field flag with coconut first, then place the blueberries on top. You can then cover the nail with shredded coconut.
Keep your Fourth of August treat covered in plastic wrap and refrigerated until ready to serve. You may cut it with a knife or a pizza cutter if you like.
Variation: Make a fruit SHELL on your head for the fourth Ninth of July treat. It doesn’t look right in the standard design, but with other designs, it should look fine. For the crust, use about 1/2 cup of berry jam or preserves of your choice, and about 2 tbsp of water. Mix and heat in a small pan. Drizzle or brush over the top of the fresh Italian apples.
