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    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » Thanksgiving

    Veggie Pizza Leaves make colorful appetizers for Thanksgiving or fall

    Published: Nov 19, '12 · Modified: Nov 5, '17 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Brighten up your Thanksgiving dinner by making these Veggie Pizza Leaves! This appetizer is so tasty you'll want to have it all the time!

    Being the middle of November it is hard to wrap my head around the fact that Thanksgiving is a few short days away. To be honest right now it's hard to wrap my head around anything. My beloved Snickers passed away early Sunday morning and I am a bit of a mess. I always try to keep things fun and festive on Hungry Happenings, but today I am very somber and am having a difficult time finding the fun.

    Snickers, you will be missed. We love you!

    Snickers brought joy to our lives for 14 years and saying good-bye was the hardest thing I've done in a very long time. Sitting on the floor with him at the vets office watching him take his last breaths brought up so many emotions. The moment before he passed I flashed back to when he was a puppy and I had just met the man who would become my husband. I remember watching the two play on the floor together, and that is the very moment I realized I had fallen in love. I shared that memory as Snickers peacefully went to sleep for the last time. We were now all on the floor once again, but this time there was no playing, only kisses and tears as we said good-bye.

    I'm sure you'll understand if I'm absent here for a short while. I'll be back with some holiday projects soon.

    I hope all of my readers in the U.S., have a lovely Thanksgiving. I will give thanks this year for having had Snickers in our lives.

    Thanksgiving will keep me busy as we will be celebrating twice. This year the leaves of autumn have truly been an inspiration and this time I've created some colorful Veggie Pizza Leaves that will make a great appetizer for Thanksgiving.

    Veggie Pizza Leaves

    You'll Need:

    per pizza
    1 roll Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations Dough Sheet* or a sheet of puff pastry
    a bit of flour to dust your cutting board
    ½ - 1 cup Philadelphia flavored cream cheese
    (Garden Vegetable, Chive & Onion, Spinach & Artichoke or Sun Dried Tomato & Basil)
    1 - 1 ½ cups finely diced vegetables (colored peppers, broccoli, carrots)
    *if you can't find the dough sheets, you can use regular crescent rolls, just be sure to pinch the seams together well before proceeding with the recipe
    knife or pizza cutter
    cutting board
    baking sheet lined with parchment paper

    Instructions:

    Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

    Lightly dust a cutting board with flour. Cut a leaf shape out of the dough using a knife or pizza wheel.

    Carefully move the crescent roll leaf to a parchment paper lined baking sheet.

    Bake for about 8 minutes until golden brown.

    Use more Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations Dough Sheets to make various shape and size leaves for your veggie pizzas.

    Spread Philadelphia cream cheese over the baked leaf. I used Garden Vegetable Cream Cheese on one leaf and Chive and Onion on another. Both tasted great once topped with the veggies.

    Sprinkle diced veggies over top of the pizza. I covered the entire pizza so that my veggie pizza leaves had a beautiful array of autumn colors. I used red, yellow, orange, and green bell peppers, carrots, and broccoli. Adding brown mushrooms, green sugar snap peas, or any other fall colored veggies would be nice too.

    Store your Veggie Pizza Leaves in the refrigerator for up to a few days. When ready to serve, place on a serving platter or nice cutting board and cut using a pizza wheel or knife.

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

    Brighten up your Thanksgiving dinner by making these Veggie Pizza Leaves! This appetizer is so tasty you'll want to have it all the time!

    Be sure to check out all of my amazing Thanksgiving Recipes

    Dress up your holiday table with some cute Thanksgiving food. Your family will adore these sweet and savory Thanksgiving recipes.

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    1. Anonymous

      December 04, 2013 at 6:15 pm

      So very sorry for the hardship you have had to endure with having your 'Snickers' put to sleep. We too, have had many of our 4-legged children put to sleep, and none of them were without tears, sadness and heartache. Praying for you and yours during this very difficult time. God Bless and much sympathy, Lenn & Larry Pacheco <3

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    2. Anonymous

      November 26, 2013 at 2:34 am

      I understand how difficult it is to lose such a lovely family member. I know that eventually the sadness passes, and the warm memories remain. We're sending you warm thoughts and sympathy.

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      • beth

        November 26, 2013 at 3:00 am

        Thank you for your kind words. It has been a year now since Snickers passed. I still miss him, but have very happy memories of our time together.

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    3. Bonita

      October 19, 2013 at 4:27 pm

      I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your dog. I know how we felt when we had to put our dog to sleep. No fun.

      On a different note, the veggie leaves are gorgeous and would make anyone want to eat their vegetables. I've included this recipe and your recipe for cheesy crescent leaves in my unit study on autumn leaves. http://www.zujava.com/leaf-study

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      • beth

        October 19, 2013 at 5:40 pm

        Thank you, Bonita. It's been almost a year now since Snickers died, and I am reminded of him daily. He left a hole in our hearts which is over time healing, but he'll never be forgotten.

        Thanks for sharing links to my leaf themed recipes. Have a wonderful weekend.

        Reply
    4. Shifra Khan

      May 13, 2013 at 12:08 pm

      Soo sorry for ur loss .i have a dog and my last one passed away it is just so sad .he died in 2008 but even in 2013 he brings tears to my eyes

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      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        May 13, 2013 at 2:43 pm

        Thank you Shifra. Losing a dog is so difficult. Snickers lives on in our hearts as I'm sure you dog does in yours. We have another dog, who also seems to miss her longtime companion. I'm grateful she is still with us.

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