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Strawberry Chocolate Pizza

So this last Saturday Renae and I were going to a get together with several other young married couples from our church.  It was going to be a potluck were everyone brought a separate course of the meal.  I was given the responsibility of bringing the dessert.   This is quite the challenge, I make some pretty good desserts if I can say so myself, but there was an expectation given that I was going to bring something amazing.  So I put my thinking cap on and the dessert pizza crossed my mind.  I've never made a dessert pizza before and so I went in search of a few recipes.  Many of them looked the same, some added different things or another.  I finally found a simple recipe that had what looked like interesting flavors from Diana's Desserts: a Strawberry Dessert Pizza.   Here is her recipe:

For Crust:
1/2 pound (2 sticks/1 cup/8 oz/226 g) unsalted butter
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour

For Topping:
8 oz. package cream cheese
1/4 cup strawberry puree (about 4 fresh very large strawberries pureed in a blender)
1 tablespoon honey
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
3 pints fresh strawberries (medium to large size strawberries)

Basically what you do is cream the butter with the sugar, (works best if the butter is already at room temperature). Then blend in the other ingredient saving the flour until last, to make the crust; make sure the batter is smooth.  Refrigerate for about 20 minutes to let the batter thicken.  Place the batter on a greased cookie sheet or pizza pan.  Get your hands dirty and make it looks like a pizza crust. Not super thick but not cracker thin either.  Place it in a pre-heated oven at 350 F for about 20 minutes the crust should be golden brownish.  Now you have made a giant sugar cookie for the pizza crust.

Now the filling,put  the cream cheese, pureed strawberries, sugar and honey and blend until smooth.  Don't spread it on the crust until that has had time to cool off.  Slice the strawberries to get them ready as well.  Once the crust has cooled spread the filling all over the crust (evenly please), then cover with the sliced strawberries.  Now this is were I veered from the reciped

I rarely follow the recipe to the "t". In fact improvisation in cooking like my favorite pasttime.  I wanted some chocolate on my strawberry pizza so I found a recipe for a chocolate glaze in one of my at home cook books.  It wanted 4 oz. of melted chocolate (melted with 3 tbls of butter), 1 1/2 cup of powdered sugar, and 2 tbls of hot water. Mixed until drizzling consistency. (If necessary add a little bit more hot water.  (do this right before you are ready to use it other wise it will harden and not drizzle correctly).

So I had the pizza all ready to go, snapped a picture and took it to the get together.  We had salad, bread, enchilada, and lasagna.  all of which were amazingly delicious.  After dinner we had a bible study and then it was time for the dessert. There were 10 people there and everyone enjoyed it, There was none left over for me to take home even.  It tasted delicious.  The crust was a little on the hard side as we cut it but we really didn't notice that once we started to eat it.  It was an an awesome recipe, that I found; and I considering trying other stuff with it too.