📋 Carrot Cake Dessert Pizza Recipe

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5 from 6 votes

📋 Carrot Cake Dessert Pizza Recipe

With a cookie crust, carrot cake flavors like cinnamon, toasted walnuts, crushed pineapple and whipped cream, chocolate cream cheese, candied carrots and an orange glaze, this Carrot Cake Dessert Pizza is not only fun to eat and make, it's a unique Carrot pizza and Easter dessert!

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American, Canadian

Keyword carrot cake, dessert pizza

Special Diet Vegetarian

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 20

Total Time 50

Servings slices

Calories 444kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

Cookie Pizza Crust

496 g -pkg of sugar cookie mix or use a homemade cookie recipe (see recipes in NOTES)

Carrot cake pizza toppings

250 g -container chocolate cream cheese (or make your own - see recipe in NOTES)
2 cups whipped cream- with granulated white sugar added to your liking I use ¼ cup of sugar– whipped topping can be substituted
128 ml -jar of pureed carrots (baby food) OR ½ cup cooked and pureed carrot
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
398 ml -can crushed pineapple, drained *use a fine mesh strainer to drain and squeeze as much liquid out as possible
½ cup toasted walnuts
¼ cup medium shredded coconut *preferably unsweetened coconut flakes
⅓ cup raisins-optional

Orange Glaze

½ cup orange juice
¼ cup lemon juice
½ cup water
2 tablespoon cornstarch
¾ cup white granulated sugar

Candied Carrots

optional - see recipe in NOTES

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray 12 inch pizza pan with non- stick cooking spray

Cookie Pizza Crust:

Mix cookie dough as per package directions or per homemade cookie dough recipe (in NOTES)
Roll the dough out to ¼ inch thickness directly onto pizza pan . Make it a little thicker at the edges, as a pizza crust would be.
Bake pizza crust for 8-10 minutes (depending on the recipe you are using) in preheated oven or until edges begin to brown lightly. Cool completely. *It may not look perfect coming out, but it doesn't matter, as it will be covered up. If it puffs up while baking, just poke those spots with a toothpick or cake tester.

Pizza Topping:

Spread 1 container ( about 1 cup) of chocolate cream cheese over the cookie pizza crust.

Toasted Walnuts

Preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange walnuts on a cookie sheet in a single layer.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes until fragrant, checking frequently.

Assembly:

In a separate bowl, mix pureed carrots (baby food) with whipped cream and 1 teaspoon cinnamon and spread over top of chocolate cream cheese.
Sprinkle crushed pineapple, raisins (optional), toasted walnuts and coconut over pizza.
Add Candied Carrots, if desired.

Glaze:

Mix ingredients together in small saucepan and heat over medium on stove top until thickened. Cool slightly and drizzle over pizza and serve. *This can also be chilled to serve at a later time.

Notes

*NOTE: Candied Carrots Recipe (optional topping)

**NOTE: How to Make your own Chocolate Cream Cheese

***NOTE: Optional Homemade Cookie Pizza Crust Recipes:

📖Variations:

Sugar Cookie Dough for Pizza Crust

Gingerbread Pizza Crust Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 ¼ cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon

½ teaspoon ginger

⅛ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon baking powder

½ cup light corn syrup

½ cup packed light brown sugar

⅓ cup margarine

¼ cup cream cheese softened

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 12 inch pizza pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Stir the dry gingerbread ingredients (flour, cinnamon, ginger, salt and baking powder) together in a large bowl. Set aside.
Combine light corn syrup, light brown sugar and margarine in a 2 quart saucepan. Stir constantly over medium heat on stove top until margarine is melted
Stir the liquid into the flour mixture, then add the softened cream cheese. Mix well with a spoon, then using hands as dough becomes stiff.
Chill the dough until it is easy to handle (about 10 minutes). Roll the dough out to ¼ inch thickness directly onto pizza pan . Make it a little thicker at the edges, as a pizza crust would be.
Bake pizza crust for 20 -25 minutes in preheated oven or until edges begin to brown lightly. Cool completely.

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