strawberry pizzettes

One of my favorite parts of summer is always the variety of fresh seasonal ingredients available. Last week I picked up a huge package of almost-too-good-too-be-true strawberries at the store, and to prevent them from going to waste, started cooking up ways to use them right away. My first were these pizzettes, basically individual-sized portions of fruit pizza.

This recipe is super easy and a great summer dessert. Start with a package sugar cookie dough mix and prepare and bake it according to the directions on the package for roll-out cookies. Once the cookies are out of the oven and have cooled, mix up the topping: 1 8-oz. package of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of white sugar, and 1 tsp. of vanilla. Then spread on each cookie and top with sliced strawberries. Also you'll want to keep these refrigerated until serving, since the cream cheese topping will get melty if you don't.