Fruit Pizza
by Christine Steendahl

Description: Your kids will love eating fruit if you let them help you make this easy, delicious fruit pizza.

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Fruits can add variety to kid's meals. Finding fun food for kids can be as simple as bringing them to the grocer with you. Selecting fruits that are yummy and chock full of nutrients can be an exciting project.

Getting children to eat fruit can be simple when we make it fun and entertaining. Since fruit should be a staple in every family's menu, let the children decide which fruits they need to prepare an exciting and interesting fruit pizza project.

You may be surprised by the fruits they select at the farmer's market. Let the kids decide the fruits and vegetables they want for their at home project.

Choose interesting or colorful fruits at the grocer or farmers' market, then turn the kids loose creating imaginative faces on this delicious fruit pizza. Odds are, they'll snack as they create--and enjoy what they taste.

Choose fruits in a wide range of palettes and sizes. Let the kids design the pizza with imaginative faces or make other shapes on this colorful and festive pizza.

Ingredients:

Ready to bake piecrust

Filling:

1/2 cup fat free or reduced fat cream cheese
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon 1% milk

Toppings:

Choose strawberries for the nose, kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes, a banana for the mouth. The choices for making shapes are only restricted by their imaginations. The kids can select pineapples, mandarin oranges, or any fruit they desire.

Instructions:

1. Let the piecrust come to room temperature per the package instructions, then unfold it onto a large baking sheet or pizza pan.

2. Roll up edges of the crust, crimping them ever so slightly so that they'll remain rolled up. Prick the crust lightly with a fork in about 20 places (allowing air to escape).

3. Bake the crust in a preheated 450 degree oven for about 9 minutes or until it's lightly browned. Remove from the crust from the oven.

4. Whisk together cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract, lemon juice adding just enough milk to make the mix able to spread onto the crust.

* Allow the crust to cool.
* Spread the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula,
* Spread to the edge of the crust.

Now it's time for the kids to get involved.

* Allow the kids to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture. Don't worry if it is not perfect. It is perfectly nutritious and fun. Kids may like to add sprinkles. Let their imaginations run wild.

* Refrigerate the pizza for at least 1 hour.
* Cut with a sharp knife and serve.

The kids will be impatient and want to devour the pizza right away. The pizza cream cheese is basically already set. So when you're done cleaning up, allow the little ones to assist you here. They will be eager to taste their creation.

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