Cookie Pizza
Make a look-a-like pizza that's sweet instead of savory to serve for dessert on your next pizza night. This Cookie Pizza is topped with white chocolate ganache cheese and fruit leather pepperoni plus candy sausage, green peppers and olives.
This post is sponsored by Dixie Crystals.
When I was asked by Dixie Crystals to create a cookie pizza I immediately had a flashback to college. I made my first cookie pizza back then and was so excited to share it with my friends. They were all so surprised how much the sweet dessert pizza looked like the real deal.
I fondly remember baking the cookie in the oven in the lounge of my dorm. I didn't have the fancy equipment I do now so I had to hand cut all my candy toppings. I painstakingly cut out candy pepperoni, green peppers, olives, and even mushrooms.
For this pizza, I decided to add sausage and skip the mushrooms.
I used strawberry fruit leather to make the pepperoni, green gumdrops for the green peppers, peanut butter and chocolate coated rice krispie clusters became my sausage, and soft black licorice turned into black olives.
At first I didn't want to use the black licorice because I thought the flavor would be totally out of place, but it seriously was the best option for getting nice round little black olive slices so I went with it. I was happily surprised that the flavor really blended well with the sugar cookie crust, the strawberry preserves sauce, the white chocolate ganache cheese, and the other candy toppings.
If you just can't do black licorice, my suggestion would be to make your olives from black candy clay. Actually you could make all the toppings using Candy Clay if you prefer using it over the candy.
Hop on over to the Dixie Crystals website to see the recipe.
Watch the video tutorial below.
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If you’d like to have the ultimate guide to working with Candy Clay (modeling chocolate) be sure to get your printed or e-book copy of Candy Clay Creations. This 102 page book is filled with tips and tricks for making and working with candy clay along with 17 step-by-step tutorials for decorating cupcakes, cookies, and more using candy clay. It’s a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to make festively decorated treats.
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Minuja says
Hi Beth - I am going to use your method to make pizza cookies. Question: Will the leather fruit and jelly candy get soggy if I add them to wet icing? Will the color bleed? Or do I glue them on afterwards?
Beth Klosterboer says
Hi Minuja, I didn't have any trouble with the candy getting soggy or bleeding on top of the white chocolate ganache. I'm not sure how they will hold up if you use icing instead of ganache. I have not tried that. You could wait until the icing dries slightly before adding the toppings. Just don't wait too long or the toppings won't stick. You could "glue" them on after the icing dries too.
Alicia says
I love this! I'm planning to make mini versions for my daughter's birthday and then have the kids decorate their own. What are the tools you use for making the holes in the olives? And how long would you cook a smaller (like 3 inch) cookie? Thanks again!
Beth says
Hi Alicia, I use round plunger cutters to cut small holes in the candy olives. You can find them on Amazon (ad) https://amzn.to/39mXEsr. If you make small 3-inch cookies, you'll want to bake them for 10-14 minutes. Start checking them at 10 minutes. They should just start to brown around the bottom edge. Have fun! I hope your daughter enjoys her special birthday treat.
Alicia says
Great! Thank you so much!
Edna says
I made a cookie pizza for my son's 42nd birthday. It was half chocolate chip and white chocolate chip, cherry fruit rollups for pepperoni, melted whit chocolate chips for chrese and color spray for pizza sauce.
Beth says
That sounds amazing! I hope your son enjoyed it.
Denise says
I’m using chocolate chip cookie dough, could I still make the crust part the same as in this video (like with the egg whites?)
Beth says
Yes, I think you could do that. Just know that chocolate chip cookie dough might spread more than the sugar cookie dough. To make it look more like crust, you can make your dough and separate out some before adding in the chocolate chips. That way you won't have chips in your pizza crust. Have fun and enjoy!
Karen @ Sugartown Sweets says
Your cookie pizza looks so yummy! And I love your how-to video with the Italian music!
Beth says
Thanks so much, Karen. I just had to have Italian music playing in the background!
The Partiologist says
I cannot believe how much this looks like a real pizza and how fun would it be to serve on April fools day!!
Beth says
Thank you! It would make a perfect April Fools Day treat. 🙂