This contest winning Caramel Apple Pizza Recipe is sure to please guests without all the extra fat to weigh them down. It varies from a heavier version by making a lighter cookie crust with less fat and sugar while also substituting part of the traditional white flour in part for whole wheat pastry flour. A combination of fat-free and low-fat cream cheese is used along with fat-free caramel sauce as well.
Regardless of less fat, this Pizza doesn’t come up short on taste. In fact, it’s hard to tell it’s made with lighter ingredients at all. I guess that’s what made it contest winning!
Caramel Apple Pizza Recipe
Makes 12 servings
Prep Time: 40 minutes + cooling
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon Spice Islands® pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Topping:
- 1 package (8 ounces) fat-free cream cheese
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon Spice Islands® pure vanilla extract
- 3 medium tart apples, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup fat-free caramel ice cream topping
- 1/4 cup chopped unsalted dry roasted peanuts
Directions:
1. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, oil, corn syrup and vanilla. Combine the flours, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
2. Press dough onto a 14-in. pizza pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
3. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla until smooth. Spread over crust. Arrange apples over the top. Drizzle with caramel topping; sprinkle with peanuts. Serve immediately. Yield: 12 slices.
Source: tasteofhome, originally published as Caramel Apple Pizza in Light & Tasty February/March 2008, p37
Nutritional Values for Caramel Apple Pizza Recipe (1 slice):
- 238 calories
- 9 g fat (3 g saturated fat)
- 29 mg cholesterol
- 228 mg sodium
- 36 g carbohydrate
- 2 g fiber
- 6 g protein
For those of you who follow the blog, you all know how much I love pizza. Consequently, this recipe was impossible for me to resist! What a treat it was too! We all loved it and will definitely have it again. Next time, though, I think I’ll make it to share at one of our get together gatherings… A whole caramel apple pizza in the house with just our family leaves waaay too much left over pizza for me to snack on allll day long, lol…
I hope you enjoy this caramel apple pizza recipe…
I do so love pizza,
Amy
