Excerpted from Christy Jordan’s Sweetness.
This is a recipe I whipped up because I LOVE the apple dessert pizzas that are served at all of the pizza chains. I got to thinking that it would have to be a quick and easy recipe in order to be made on such a large scale. After taking a few minutes to wrap my head around it and dream up the ingredients, I went shopping and made this little baby. Bingo. Bull’s-eye. Jackpot. We just passed “GO” and collected two hundred dollars!
My only suggestion is that you not make this in the evening after the kids have gone to bed, because then it will be just you and your husband and this big old apple pizza . . . and if you eat a slice, it will keep calling you back for more, and I am not responsible if the two of you eat nearly the whole thing.
Apple Doozie Dessert Pizza
Print RecipeIngredients
- One store-bought 12-inch pizza crust
- 1 can (20 ounces) apple pie filling
- ½ cup quick-cooking oats
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup (½ stick) butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, plus extra as needed
- 2 tablespoons milk, plus extra as needed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Place the pizza crust on an ungreased baking sheet and set aside.
Open the pie filling and use a paring knife to dice it up a bit while it is inside the can. Spread the filling over the pizza crust, leaving about a 1-inch border around the edge.
Place the oats, brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a small bowl and stir to combine. Using a long-tined fork, cut the butter into the mixture until crumbly to make a streusel.
Sprinkle the streusel over the top of the pie filling. Bake until lightly golden brown, about 25 minutes.
Meanwhile, make the glaze: Place the 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, and vanilla in a small bowl and stir until smooth. If the mixture is too thick, add an additional tablespoon of milk. If it’s too thin, add confectioners’ sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, until it reaches the desired consistency. Drizzle the glaze over the apple pizza with a spoon.
Apple Doozie Dessert Pizza will keep, covered at room temperature, for up to 2 days.
Notes
You can substitute fresh apples for the apple pie filling, if you’d like. Peel and chop 3 medium-size apples. Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a medium-size pan over medium heat and sauté the apples until tender, about 5 minutes. Add a few tablespoons of sugar if you like, but keep them a bit tart, because the topping adds a lot of sweetness.
About the Book:
Celebrate the sweet spirit and taste of Southern hospitality with Christy Jordan, the voice of Southern cooking for a new generation. Sweetness is a memory made in our grandmother’s kitchen. Sweetness is nights on the porch, listening to the old stories. Sweetness is welcoming guests with an open heart. And food: sustaining those same guests with Peach Buttermilk Pie. Greeting the kids and their friends after school with Chocolate Chip Dream Bars. Sitting in the shade with neighbors and cooling down with Blushing Apple Juleps. (Pour some for the little ones, too—there’s no alcohol.) Or ending dinner on the high note of a Chocolate Chess Pie, because you always need a little something sweet to finish it off, whether a meal or a day.
In Sweetness, Christy Jordan shares 197 recipes for sweet things to eat and drink—recipes that are deeply delicious, rich with tradition, often reaching through generations, and designed with today’s hectic schedules in mind. Because life is just better when you add a little sweetness.
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