Patriotic Fruit Pizza

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 large bananas, sliced - or as needed
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice, or as needed
• 1 (16 ounce) package fresh strawberries, sliced
• 1 (6 ounce) container fresh blueberries

Recipe

Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 10 mins Ready Time: 1 hr


• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). whisk the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
• in a large mixing bowl, mash the vegetable shortening and margarine together until thoroughly combined, and beat in 1 1/2 cup of sugar, eggs, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. mix in the flour mixture to make a workable dough, and spread the dough out in a rectangle shape an ungreased 12x17 inch baking sheet.
• bake in the preheated oven until very lightly browned, 8 to 10 minutes. allow to cool completely.
• while the cookie base is cooling, mash the cream cheese with 1 cup of sugar and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract in a bowl until smooth. place sliced bananas in a bowl, and gently toss with lemon juice to prevent browning.
• to decorate the pizza, spread the cream cheese filling all over the cookie base in an even, smooth layer. place the blueberries in a square in neat, closely-spaced rows, in the left upper corner for blue stars. arrange alternating stripes of white bananas and red strawberry slices across the pizza. refrigerate leftovers.