Featured Recipe: Apple Cheesecake New York-Style Pizza

Yields one pizza (eight slices)

Ingredients

Prep

Gold Medal™ All Trumps™ Doughball 16 oz (13385)  1 lb or 1 each

Cream Cheese Filling

• Cream cheese, softened  12 oz or 1 1/2 cups
• Granulated sugar  3 oz or 1/3 cup
• Vanilla extract  1 Tbsp

Assembly

• Apple pie filling, prepared, chopped  9 oz or 1 cup
• Streusel, prepared  3 oz or 1/3 cup

Directions

Prep

1. Spray sheet pan or dough box with pan spray then add frozen dough ball and spray top also; cover and refrigerate overnight.
2. Remove from refrigerator and let stand at room temperature 15-30 minutes.
3. Place dough on a lightly floured surface and dust top with flour then gently push in a circular motion to remove most of the air bubbles.
4. Pick up dough and stretch outwards using thumbs and index fingers; moving around edges in a circular motion until the dough fits onto the tops of your knuckles.
5. Stretch and turn the dough evenly until it reaches a size of 16-inch diameter.
6. Transfer to either a pizza screen for Impinger oven, lightly floured pizza peel or parchment-lined full sheet pan for Deck/Convection oven.

Cream Cheese Filling

1. Add softened cream cheese, sugar and vanilla extract to a medium sized bowl.
2. Mix together until smooth; set aside or refrigerate until needed.

Assembly

1. Spread Cream Cheese Filling evenly over top of prepared dough to within 1/4-1/2-inch of the edge.
2. Spread apple pie filling evenly over top to within 1/4-1/2-inch of edge; top with prepared streusel.
3. Bake as directed and slice into 8 pieces for serving:

• Impinger Oven - 450°F for 6-8 minutes
• Deck Oven - 475°F for 8-10 minutes
• Convection Oven - 475°F for  8-10 minutes (Rotate pans baked in convection oven one-half turn (180°) after 4 minutes of baking)

Recipe courtesy of General Mills Foodservice