Taffy Apple Pizza

Do you like to eat taffy apples? If so, then this is the recipe for you! The crust is one huge sugar cookie! This recipe comes from Pampered Chef, that is how I was introduced to/stumbled upon it. I was invited to a Pampered Chef party and this was the food item prepared for that event. I love Pampered Chef products, especially their baking stones. This recipe requires the large pizza stone. I have not tried making it with a regular pizza pan so if you don't have a stone then try a pizza pan. If you do, please leave a comment on how that worked out for you. Thanks in advance!


Ingredients:

1 package (18 oz.) refrigerated sugar cookie dough, softened

1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened

½ cup packed brown sugar

¼ cup creamy peanut butter

½ tsp. vanilla

2 medium Granny Smith apples

Ground cinnamon

¼ cup caramel ice cream topping, warmed

½ cup peanuts, grated or chopped

1. Preheat oven to 350° F. For crust, shape cookie dough into a ball. Place dough in center of Large Round Stone; flatten slightly with palm of hand. Using lightly floured rolling pin, roll out dough to a 14-inch circle, about ¼ - inch thick. Bake 16-18 minutes or until light golden brown; cool 10 minutes. Carefully loosen cookie from Baking Stone using serrated bread knife; cool completely.
2. For topping, combine cream cheese, brown sugar, peanut butter and vanilla in mixing bowl; mix well. Spread mixture evenly over top of cookie.
3. Peel, core and slice apples. Arrange apples evenly over cream cheese mixture; sprinkle with cinnamon.
4. To heat caramel topping, microwave on high 30-34 seconds or until warm; drizzle over apples. Grate or use chopped peanuts over apples. Cut pizza into 16 wedges with a pizza cutter.

Yield: 16 servings 

Sugar cookie dough rolled out almost to the edges, needs to be 1/4 inch thick.

Baked sugar cookie, it expands, so be careful when you roll it out beforehand, it can creep off the edges.

I suggest leaving your sugar cookie on the large baking stone, you can easily crack it transferring it to another plate/dish. I did a bit with this one. I ended up having to bake a second one and giving the other one to my son.

Just a beautiful slice of taffy apple goodness!