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Fun Fruit Breakfast Pizza USDA Recipe for Child Care Centers

Put the pizzazz into breakfast with pizza! Top an oatmeal and whole-wheat flour crust with blended yogurt and cream cheese then complete by topping with your favorite seasonal fruit pieces. (Make it festive with spirit themed pizza for spirit days or holidays etc.)
CACFP CREDITING INFORMATION
1 piece provides ¹⁄2 cup fruit and 1.5 oz equivalent grains.
Course: Breakfast, vegetarian
Keyword: Child Care Centers, CACFP
Age Group: Ages 6-18
Serving Size: 25-50
Program Type: CACFP
Program Meal Type: Breakfast
Conventional Meal Category: Vegetarian, Main Dish (Entrée)
Program Meal Component: Grains, Fruits
Meal Service Temperature: Cold
Cooking Method: Bake
Season: Summer, Spring
25 Servings
Calories: 310

Instructions

  • Pour yogurt, cream cheese, 2 tsp vanilla extract, and honey in a commercial mixer (batch as needed). Set remaining vanilla extract aside for step 6. Recommend to cook in batches of 25. Using a paddle attachment, mix on medium speed until smooth.
  • DO NOT OVERMIX. Refrigerate. Set aside for step 13.
    For 25 servings, mix for 2–3 minutes.
    For 50 servings, mix for 4–5 minutes.
  • Critical Control Point: Cool to 40 °F or lower within 4 hours.
  • Critical Control Point: Hold at 40 °F or below.
  • Combine oil and sugar in a commercial mixer (batch as needed). Using a paddle attachment, mix on medium speed until mixture has a crumbled consistency. DO NOT OVERMIX.
  • Add applesauce, eggs, and remaining vanilla extract. Mix on medium speed until smooth. DO NOT OVERMIX.
    For 25 servings, mix for 2–3 minutes.
    For 50 servings, mix for 4–5 minutes.
  • Slowly add flour, baking powder, and cinnamon. Mix on medium speed until smooth. DO NOT OVERMIX.
    For 25 servings, mix for 2–3 minutes.
    For 50 servings, mix for 4–5 minutes.
  • Fold in rolled oats.
  • Press 1 qt (about 3 lb 3 oz) dough into a half sheet pan (18′′ x 13′′ x 1′′) lightly coated with pan-release spray.
    For 25 servings, use 1 pan.
    For 50 servings, use 2 pans.
  • Bake:
    Conventional oven: 350 °F for 25–30 minutes.
    Convection oven: 325 °F for 20–25 minutes.
  • Critical Control Point: Heat to 165 °F or higher for at least 15 seconds.
  • Remove pizza crust from oven. Allow to rest 45 minutes to 1 hour at room temperature before adding yogurt mixture.
  • Spread 1 qt 1 cup (about 2 lb 10 oz) yogurt mixture over each pan.
  • Arrange strawberries, bananas, and blueberries in any decorative pattern of choice by shingling fruit.
  • Critical Control Point: Cool to 40 °F or lower within 4 hours.
  • Critical Control Point: Hold at 40 °F or below.
  • Portion: Cut each pan 5 x 5 (25 pieces per pan).
    Serve 1 piece (about 3¹⁄2′′ x 2¹⁄2′′).

Notes

*See Marketing Guide for purchasing information on foods that will change during preparation or when a variation of the ingredients is available.
Cooking Process #3: Complex Food Preparation.

Nutrition

Serving: 1piece (about 3¹⁄2′′ x 2¹⁄2") | Calories: 310 | Total Carbohydrate: 50g | Protein: 7g | Total Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 151mg | Potassium: 274mg | Dietary Fiber: 4g | Total Sugars: 26g | Vitamin D: 0IU | Calcium: 88mg | Iron: 1mg