Day 45: Cookie Pizza

As Easter approached I asked my boys if they wanted to dye Easter eggs. Not a single one had any interest. I don't want to admit it but I was excited about not having to dye eggs this year.  Dying eggs is a mess, AND no matter how hard I try I cannot seem to make a hard boiled egg that is easy to peel.

Every year, it's the same thing. I google "How to make the perfect hard boiled egg" follow therecipe, and still fail. Now that I think about it, that may be the real reason why I don't like to dye Easter eggs. It's like each colorful little egg is a reminder of my failure.

Rather then dye eggs, we opted to do two fun Easter themed cookies.  The first is a Cookie Pizza. This basic recipe can turn in to something spectacular when decorated.

Cookie Pizza

adapted from Pizza Cookie Recipe in 500 Cookies by Philippa Vastone

Cookie

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup of white sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

Frosting

1/2 cup butter, softened

2 cups of powdered sugar

4 oz of cream cheese

Decorations

2 cups of sweet shredded coconut

a few drops of green food coloring

Reeces Pieces peanut butter eggs

Pastel Easter chocolate-I used Sixlets

Dark green sprinkles

Light green sprinkels

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a saperate bowl sift flour, and baking soda together.

Beat butter and sugar together. Then add vanilla and egg. Mix well.

Add dry ingredents, mix.

Form dough into a ball and place on a piece of parchment paper.

Cover with a nother piece of parchment paper and roll out to the sice of your pizza tray.

Remove top piece of parchment paper and place dough and parchment paper on pizza tray

 **I found it helpful to start rolling the dough in the middle then flip over the dough while still in the parchment and roll both sides**

Bake for 18-20 minutes. While cookie is balking, prepare frosting. Remove cookie and parchment from pizza tray and cool on a rack.

Frosting

Beat together butter, powdered sugar, add cream cheese.



Frost cooled cookie, then decorate.

To make green coconut add a few drops of green food coloring to a coconut and shake in a zip lock bag. Spread on a parchment lined cookie sheet to dry.

The best thing about Cookie Pizza is that it can be decorated for any occassion!

For the record, it is the day before Easter...and I just googled "How to make the perfect hardboiled egg." I may not be out of the egg dying woods yet.