Recipe for cooking Cherry Cheese Streusel Pizza

Quick Meals- Salad and Pizza :: Dessert Pizzas

Cherry Cheese Streusel Pizza

Source: Pizza Today, January 1993

Yield: 1 (12-in.) pizza

Cream Cheese Filling
12 oz. softened cream cheese
3 oz. sugar
1 med. egg

Streusel Topping
3 C. flour
2 C. brown sugar, packed
1 C. butter, softened
1 C. pecans, chopped
1 tsp. cinnamon

Assembly
1 (12-in.) dessert pizza shell - fresh or par-baked
8 oz. Cream Cheese Filling
14 oz. cherry pie filling
3 oz. Streusel Topping

Prepare Cream Cheese Filling: Cut cream cheese into sugar; add egg. Blend at med. speed until fluffy.

Prepare Streusel Topping: Mix flour and brown sugar; cut in butter; mix in pecans and ground cinnamon. Blend thoroughly until crumbly.

Assemble Pizza: Spread cream cheese filling evenly over fresh or par-baked pizza dough. Spread cherry pie filling over cream cheese layer. Sprinkle with streusel topping mixture. Bake at 500 degrees F until cheese filling and streusel is browned lightly (about 7-9 min.). Cool and serve.

NOTE: You will have enough cherry pie filling, cream cheese filling, and streusel topping for several pizzas.