Strawberry Dessert Pizza

CoolMonday's Note:

A delightful addition to that Friday night family pizza. Found this at Guide to Southern Food. If using fresh strawberries, mash, sprinkle with sugar, cover, refrigerate for 2 hours, and add 1/4 cup water when cooking. I had unsweetened frozen strawberries and added 3 packets of splenda while cooking.

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 25 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

CRUST

• 4 ounces butter (1 stick)
• 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 cup self-rising flour

FILLING

• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

TOPPING

• 2 pints frozen strawberries, in juice
• 4 tablespoons cornstarch

Directions:

1. CRUST.
2. Melt butter, mix with confectioners sugar.
3. Add flour, mix well.
4. Pat out in pizza pan.
5. Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes, until lightly browned.
6. FILLING.
7. Beat cream cheese and condensed milk together.
8. Add lemon juice and vanilla.
9. Pour over cooked crust.
10. TOPPING.
11. Combine frozen strawberries and cornstarch in medium saucepan (or fresh, mashed, sugared strawberries, 2 tablespoons water and cornstarch).
12. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until thickened (about 5 minutes).
13. Cool and spread over cream cheese filling.
14. Refrigerate at least 4 hours.

Reviews

[Pizza Fetish]

Found this a Delicious dessert.I will have a full review on www.thepizzafetish.com very soon.

[bee]

I haven't actually tasted this recipe yet, but I made it and took it to a Mother's Day picnic the other day and received a lot of compliments on it. I did make a couple of changes - I made the crust in a pie pan, and only used half of the filling. I'm going to make another crust this morning and use up the extra filling.

[Clarely]

I used a sugar cookie dough for the crust (saw it used in a similar recipe, but liked the look of your filling recipe better). Did everything else as you have written, then drizzled melted chocolate (thinned with a little shortening) over the top of the whole thing. It got lots of oohs and ahhs at dessert time. Thanks!