Caramel Apple Fruit Pizza
This Caramel Apple Fruit Pizza is a delicious fall dessert with a sugar cookie crust, cream cheese frosting, toasted pecans and a drizzle of caramel.
Author: Thegunnysack/Photo credit to thegunnysack.com
Ingredients
- Sugar Cookie Crust:
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup shortening
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1¼ cups flour
- Caramel Apple Fruit Pizza:
- 2 large apples, diced (about 2 cups)
- 1½ cups club soda water
- ½ cup chopped pecans, toasted (find my tutorial for how to toast pecans here)
- ½ cup caramel sauce
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 4 oz package cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp half-n-half, if necessary
Instructions
- Sugar Cookie Crust:
- Beat the butter and shortening together.
- Add granulated sugar and cream together for 2-3 minutes until lighter in color and fluffier in texture.
- Mix in the egg and vanilla.
- Mix in the baking powder, salt, and flour.
- Press dough into a greased 9-inch springform pan.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 15-17 minutes.
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- Beat the cream cheese until smooth.
- Beat in the softened butter.
- Mix in powdered sugar.
- Add vanilla and half-n-half, if necessary.
- Assembly:
- Put the diced apples in the club soda water immediately after dicing them. Soak them in the water for about 3 minutes and then drain the water.
- Spread the prepared cream cheese frosting (recipe below) on the cooled sugar cookie crust.
- Top with the diced apples, sprinkle with chopped pecans and drizzle the caramel sauce over the top.
