FRUIT PIZZA COOKIES

Mini version of the classic fruity pizza, which everyone loves! Soft butter / sugar cookies with cream cheese and fruit topping! Wonderful and very decorative. It was my first time preparing these cookies and I was delighted of the result. The biscuits are tasty even without the topping.

Ingredients:

Biscuit:
  •     1 and 3/4 cups of flour
  •     1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  •     1/8 teaspoon of baking soda
  •     1/4 teaspoon salt
  •     50 g of butter softened to room temperature
  •     60 g of pork fat (lard)
  •     3/4 cup sugar
  •     2 tablespoons cream cheese
  •     1 vanilla sugar (10 g)
  •     a little grated lemon peel
  •     1 bigger egg
For cream:
  •     10 tablespoons cream cheese
  •     1-2 teaspoons of milk
  •     1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla sugar
  •     1 cup of powdered sugar

Preparation:
  1. First, whisk the butter together with pork fat, sugar and cream cheese. Mix nicely using a mixer until you get a bright and soft mixture.
  2. Add egg, vanilla and grated lemon peel and continue to mix.
  3. Then add the flour with the baking powder, the soda and the salt, and briefly beat at a low speed to connect.
  4. Then, with wit hands, make balls (the mixture would be sticky and slightly cumbersome to work) and place them on a baking pan aligned with a baking sheet and press them to get the shape of a disc. Leave space between cookies as they grow during baking.
  5.  Preheat the oven to 180 C degrees. Put the cookies to bake for about 10 minutes until the edges are slightly golden.
  6.  Prepare the cream, mix cream cheese, milk, vanilla and powdered sugar until a beautiful creamy structure is obtained.
  7.  When the cookies are ready, allow them to cool for 5 minutes and then carefully remove them.
  8.  Apply a spoonful of cream and smoothly even the cream.
  9.  On top, arrange finely chopped fruit as desired, I put a banana, strawberry and blueberry. 
  10.  Eat immediately.

Note-instead of the cream in the recipe, you can use whipped cream.