Vegan Dessert Mini Pizzas
Prep Time15 minutes mins
Cook Time8 minutes mins
Total Time23 minutes mins
Servings: 18 depending on size
Shortbread crust
- 1 cup (2 sticks) Earth Balance Vegan Butter,soft
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 TB vanilla extract
Frosting
- ½ cup vegan cream cheese
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract
Fruit
- 2-3 cups chopped fruit- whatever variety you want.
Preheat your oven to 350 and get a baking sheet lined with a Silpat and set aside.
Make your shortbread dough by getting your stand mixer, cream together your vegan butter and sugars, mix in your vanilla and then mix in your flour until incorporated.
Take a Silpat and half of your dough. Take a large piece of saran wrap and cover the dough (for less sticking) roll your dough with the rolling pin rolling over the saran wrap (if that makes sense, you just want a barrier for the sticking factor). Roll the dough to about ¼ to ½ inches thick. However thick you want them is how they will stay, they do not rise. You want it thick enough to handle the fruit topping. Use a biscuit cutter or a large mouth cup to cut circles in your dough. Transfer the dough circles to the prepared baking sheet via spatula. Repeat with the remaining the dough. Bake for 8-10 minutes, watch them so they don't get too brown. Let them sit on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
Make your frosting. Mix all the ingredients with your stand mixer. Stick this in the fridge while you're waiting for the cookies to cool.
Cut up your fruit into the desired shapes you want to use for your fruit pizza. Make sure all the fruit is super dry. Set aside.
Frost the fruit pizzas and top with the fruit. **Note if you aren't serving these right away, wait to put the fruit on them. After time the fruit will seep some liquid- they still taste amazing, if not even better- but they aren't so easy to handle and the cookie can get very soft. This didn't phase us from gobbling them up. But if you're bringing to an event I would put the fruit on when you get there. Store in the fridge.