serendipitious food fun

my daughter saw a recipe in a magazine and asked if we could have it for dinner. once i saw what it was, i happily acquiesced. she wanted a fruit pizza. luckily, berries were on sale this week, sooo... i bought masses. fruit pizza in the middle of winter? how very serendipitous.

this is more of an assembling project than an actual cook recipe. perfect for children! the only "difficult" part was adding some whipped cream to the cream cheeses to lighten and sweeten them a bit. it's completely optional. if you can wash fruit, hull berries, and peel clementines, you can make this scrumptious fruit pizza. a little bit of summer in the middle of winter. 

cream cheese flavors, top to bottom- chocolate, strawberry, plain

i used whole wheat pitas as the pizza base, but you could use sugar cookie dough or regular pizza dough. just bake them ahead of time and cool them off before assembling the toppings.

fruit pizza

assortment of fruits- i used my kids' favorites- strawberries, blueberries and clementines

choice of cream cheese- i had to buy the chocolate cream cheese, because, well...chocolate

whole wheat pitas

1 cup of whipped cream- optional- i had some whipped cream that needed to be used

for the cream cheese- 

beat together 1/3 cup of whipped cream to 1 cup of each cream cheese flavor until smooth. refrigerate until ready to use. 

for the pizza- 

spread as much cream cheese onto a whole wheat pizza as you like. top with preferred fruits. enjoy. 

the kids had so much fun assembling these pizzas. overly excited would be the perfect description of their eagerness to make the pizzas. much licking of spoons and fingers took place. can't say i blame them though.

until next post- maggie