Fig Mascarpone Dessert Pizza
Author: Mary Saylor
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Serves: 4
- Dough for one pizza crust or 1 unbaked pizza crust
- coarse corn meal for sprinkling on pizza peel or cutting board
- 3 Tbs. fig butter (or fig jam, or sprinkle pizza with large-grained unrefined crystallized sugar)
- 5 oz. mascarpone cheese
- ½ pint (8 oz.) fresh figs, chopped
- (several chopped walnuts, optional)
- (pizza stone)
- Put pizza stone in oven and heat to 500 degrees F.
- Sprinkle pizza peel or large flat cutting board with a generous amount of corn meal.
- Roll out pizza crust atop the corn meal.
- Spread fig butter or fig jam on crust (or if lacking either of those, after the other ingredients are on the pizza sprinkle it with unrefined sugar)
- Dot the pizza with mascarpone cheese.
- Cover the pizza with chopped figs and with walnuts if using.
- Slide pizza onto heated pizza stone.
- Cook 10-11 minutes at 500 F or until pizza begins to brown slightly on edges.
Recipe by Fit and Fed at http://fitandfed.net/2012/06/30/fig-mascarpone-dessert-pizza/
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