Patriotic Fruit Pizza

Makes 1 serving

ingredients

1 C all-purpose flour
? c confectioner’s sugar
? c butter or margarine
2 cream cheese (8 ounce)
1 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
? t lemon juice
2 C halved fresh strawberries
? c fresh or frozen
strawberries
? c fresh or frozen
blueberries

directions

In a bowl, combine the flour and confectioner’s sugar; cut in butter until crumbly. Pressed onto 12-inch pizza pan.

Bake at 325? for 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Let cool.

Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar. Add vanilla and lemon juice, mixing until smooth. Spread 1 cup over the crust. Set the remaining cream cheese mixture aside.

Arrange 5 rows of strawberries on top of the pizza to create red stripes. Place the blueberries in the upper left corner. Cut a hole in the corner of the plastic or pastry bag; insert a star pastry tip #21. Fill the bag with the reserved cream mixture. Pipe a zig-zag pattern between the rows of strawberries for the white stripes.

Source: Kathleen Rustad