Just Baking

I finally got my oven fixed, so I’ll actually be baking some stuff soon. However, I’ve been swamped, so my bread baking hasn’t picked up yet.

My wife and I did make something that just about anyone with an oven can make, though. It fits very well with summer fare and almost can’t be messed up…

Fruit Pizza!!! Okay, that wasn’t a surprise - it’s in the title of the post. But it’s good stuff, nonetheless!

The way my wife and I make this is to use a sugar cookie crust. And, almost to my shame, we used two tubes of Pillsbury sugar cookie dough. That’s right; I didn’t even make the dough… My shame is almost too much to take.

I spread the dough in a greased deep dish pizza pan and baked at 350 degrees F for about 15 minutes, until it looked done. My wife, in the meantime, mixed 8 ounces of cream cheese with one stick of butter and enough confectioner’s sugar to get the consistency that would spread (maybe half a box of sugar). This cream cheese icing was spread on the cookie crust after the crust cooled.

The crust and icing were topped with fresh fruit. Any fresh fruit that you like will do, but we used kiwi, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. The nice thing about fruit pizza is that, as fruit comes into season throughout summer, it can change by using the fruit currently in season.

The pizza was refrigerated until it was time for dessert. It’s easy, not time consuming, and you (and your guests) will love it!

I posted this elsewhere, but I wanted to add it here also, mainly to solicit summer baking ideas from readers.

So… What do some of you bake differently in the summer than in other months? Why only summer? What WON’T you bake in the summer?