Categories: Dessert
Ingredients
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F., rack in the middle position.
- Hannah's 1st Note: Ellie always brings these to Mother's cookie exchange in pizza boxes from her restaurant, Bertanelli’s Pizza.
- Ingredients:
- 4 cups quick oatmeal (I used Quaker Quick-1Minute)
- 1 cup (2 sticks, 8 ounces, 1/2 pound) salted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup brown sugar (pack it down in the cup when you measure it)
- 6-ounce package semi-sweet chocolate chips (that's one cup of chips)
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter or Nutella (a hazelnut chocolate butter)
- shredded coconut
- red candied cherries or maraschino cherries, chopped
- chopped nuts of your choice
Directions
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Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
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In a medium-sized bowl, mix the oatmeal, softened butter, and brown sugar together.
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Round the mixture up in a large ball with your impeccably clean hands and place it in the center of the parchment lined cookie sheet.
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Pat the mixture into a circle about the size of a small pizza. Push the outside edges up a bit so that they form what looks like a crust.
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Bake the “pizza” at 350 degrees F. for approximately 15 minutes, or until it turns brown and bubbles a bit.
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Take your “pizza” out of the oven and let it cool slightly while you make your toppings.
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If you have a double boiler, use it to make the topping. If you don’t, use a heavy saucepan and stir it to keep the contents from scorching.
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Combine the chocolate chips and the peanut butter over LOW heat. Stir it until everything melts and blends together.
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Remove the topping from the heat and pour it over your “pizza” crust.
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Decorate the top of your pizza with the coconut to simulate shredded cheese, the chopped cherries to simulate chopped tomatoes, and the chopped nuts to simulate sausage pieces.
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Note: Be creative with your “pizza” toppings. See if you can find something to simulate pepperoni, or green pepper, or any other real pizza topping you can think of.
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Remember, the toppings don’t go in the oven so you can use any sweet treat you can find at the grocery store.
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Refrigerate your pizza until it has hardened. To serve, you can either cut it in slices with a pizza cutter just like a real pizza, or break it into pieces like toffee or peanut brittle.