In winter, the taste of warm apple pie is a welcome comfort food. And, served a la mode, this easy fruit pizza is a light and refreshing warm weather dessert. Any time of year, this dessert is the perfect accompaniment to homemade vegetarian or vegan pizza.
Finding dairy-free and vegan desserts can be a challenge. Most traditional cake or pie recipes require eggs, milk, or butter. And many vegan recipes can be too complicated, requiring obscure ingredients available only from natural food stores. But pizza dough is traditionally dairy and egg free, and this apple pizza recipe does not require any unconventional or hard to find ingredients. Vegan buttery spread and vegan sugar can both be found in most grocery stores.
Cinnamon Apple Dessert Pizza
Makes two 12" pizzas.Serves 6-8
If making one traditional pizza and one dessert pizza, make a full batch of dough, but cut all other ingredient measurements in half.
Ingredients:
- one batch of Easy Yeast Pizza Dough, divided and shaped into 2 pizza rounds.
- 2 apples, peeled and thinly sliced
- 6 tablespoons unbleached cane sugar, or other vegan sugar
- 5 tablespoons vegan butter substitute suitable for baking, such as Earth Balance Buttery Spread
- 3 tablespoons of lemon juice concentrate or juice from one lemon
- 3 tablespoons of cinnamon
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- place pizza rounds on pizza stones or cookie sheets and set aside
- Mix cinnamon and sugar in a bowl and set aside
- Melt buttery spread in a medium size bowl or pot
- Add lemon juice to melted buttery spread and stir to mix well
- Add cinnamon sugar to liquid ingredients and mix well.
- Add sliced apples to mixture and stir to coat well
- Spread cinnamon sugar and apple mixture evenly on rounds of dough
- Bake pies in center of oven for 15 minutes or until dough is just beginning to turn golden brown
- Let pies cool for a few minutes, then cut into 6 or 8 slices.
This recipe is a perfect dessert to make for a group of vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters. No one will even suspect this is a vegan or dairy-free dessert if they aren't told! Pair with a scoop of dairy-free ice cream such as Soy Delicious, Soy Dream, Rice Dream or Whole Soy for vegans or people with lactose intolerance, and plain vanilla ice cream for the omnivores.
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