Your youngsters will be thrilled when they taste this sweet pizza topped with apples, dried fruit, nuts and chocolate chips. It’s perfect for snacking, dessert or breakfast.
Apple Dessert Pizza
1 pizza dough (650 g/1 1/4 lb) or recipe for large dough
30 ml (2 tbsp) butter, melted
50 ml (1/4 cup) granulated sugar
5 ml (1 tsp) cinnamon
750 ml (3 cups) thinly sliced peeled apples (such as Empire, McIntosh or Cortland)
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50 ml (1/4 cup) golden raisins or dried cranberries
50 ml (1/4 cup) chopped pecans or walnuts
50 ml (1/4 cup) semisweet or milk chocolate chips
Cinnamon Icing (optional; recipe follows)
Press or roll pizza dough into a 30-cm (12-inch) circle; place on a pizza pan or large baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Brush 2.5-cm (1-inch) edge of dough with a little melted butter. In a small bowl, mix sugar with cinnamon; sprinkle 15 ml (1 tbsp) over buttered edge of dough.
In a medium bowl, toss apples with remaining butter and sugar mixture until well coated. Arrange over dough just inside sugar edging. Bake in a 200 C (400 F) oven for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle with raisins, pecans and chocolate chips; bake for 10 minutes or until apples are tender and edge of dough is lightly browned. Let cool slightly; cut into wedges. If desired, drizzle with Cinnamon Icing.
Cinnamon Icing: In a small bowl, mix 125 ml (1/2 cup) icing sugar with 1 ml (1/4 tsp) cinnamon; stir in 15 ml (1 tbsp) milk.
Makes 8 servings.
Nutritional information per serving: 334 calories; 7 g protein; 10 g fat; 56 g carbohydrate; 4 g fibre.
Source: Foodland Ontario.
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