Fool your friends and family with a realistic-looking Cookie Pizza. Top a sugar cookie crust with strawberry preserves (pizza sauce), white chocolate ganache (melted mozzarella cheese), and candy pepperoni, green peppers, olives, and sausage. Looks just like the real thing and makes a fun dessert for any occasion.
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup butter, softened slightly
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- ¾ teaspoon almond extract
- 1 egg white
- 4 ounces white chocolate, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- ½ cup strawberry preserves
- 5 strawberry fruit leather strips, cut into fifteen 1 inch rounds for pepperoni
- 2-3 small green gumdrop candies or taffy, cut into small strips for green peppers
- 1 soft black licorice stick, cut into slices with holes for olives
- chocolate-coated rice cereal nuggets
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
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Spray a 12 inch round pizza pan with baking spray.
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Line the pan with a parchment paper round if you plan to remove the cookie pizza from the pan before serving.
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Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl. Set aside.
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Cream butter and both sugars until light and fluffy.
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Mix in the egg, vanilla, and almond extract and beat until well combined.
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Stir in the flour mixture just until incorporated.
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Pinch off about ⅓ cup of dough and reserve it to make the outer crust.
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Press the remaining dough into the pan in an even layer.
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Brush some egg white around the top edge of the cookie.
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Roll the reserved dough into a log and arrange around the top edge of the cookie, smoothing out any seams.
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Bake the cookie on the bottom rack of your oven for 16-20 minutes until the center looks baked through and the edges are golden brown.
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Remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
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If you lined the pan with baking paper, remove the cooled cookie from the pan, peel off the paper, and set it on a serving platter, in a pizza box, or on a cutting board.
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Combine the white chocolate and heavy whipping cream in a microwave safe bowl.
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Heat on high power for 1 minute.
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Allow the bowl to sit in the microwave for 2 more minutes.
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Remove and stir until smooth.
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If needed, heat for 10 second bursts of high power, stirring after each until melted.
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Spread the strawberry preserves “pizza sauce” over the pizza crust.
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Drizzle the white chocolate ganache “cheese” over top.
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Cut the pizza into 8 slices.
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Arrange the strawberry fruit leather pepperoni, the green candy peppers, and the black licorice olives over top of the pizza slices.
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Sprinkle the chocolate coated rice cereal nuggets over the whole pizza creating the look of sausage.
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Store at room temperature for up to 1 day.
Serve and enjoy!
Recipe Video
I recommend topping your cookie pizza the day you plan to serve it.
If you need to make this dessert ahead of time, you can bake the cookie and store it at room temperature up to three days in advance. Or you can bake it sooner, and freeze it for up to 3 months.
Store any leftover cookie pizza in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Before serving, allow the slices to come to room temperature; otherwise, the candy toppings may be too firm to bite into.
If you can't find chocolate-coated Rice Krispies Cereal, you can make your own by stirring some Rice Krispies Cereal into melted chocolate. Spoon out just a few pieces of chocolate-coated cereal and drop them onto a parchment-paper-lined pan. Refrigerate until the chocolate hardens.