Gluten Free Jack o Lantern Fruit Pizza

Gluten Free Jack o Lantern Fruit Pizza

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We’re wrapping up #HalloweenTreatsWeek today but I’ve got one last recipe for ya’ll. This easy gluten free Jack o’Lantern fruit pizza is a winner in my book! It’s also dairy free! I made this whole dessert in less than an hour so it’s not time consuming either. And who doesn’t love a dessert that’s smiling back at you?! Isn’t he cute?

 

This recipe is sponsored by Litehouse Foods, Dixie Crystals, and Adam’s Extracts.

All opinions are my own.

 

Today is the last day to enter the giveaway too! Scroll down to see all the fun prizes you could win and enter below. Thank you to our amazing sponsor team: Dixie Crystals, Litehouse Foods, Sweets and Treats Sprinkles, Treat Street USA, Wilton Baking, and Adam’s Extracts. Without them, #HalloweenTreatsWeek would not be possible!

 

gluten free dessert pizza

Gluten Free Jack-o-Lantern Fruit Pizza

An easy to make Halloween dessert that's perfect for gluten free diets!

Ingredients

For the crust

  • 1 cup Dixie Crystals granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup palm shortening
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp Adam's Extracts vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups gluten free flour mix I used Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1
  • 3/4 cup almond flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt

For the frosting

  • 1/2 cup Litehouse Foods Pumpkin Spice Dip
  • 1 cup Dixie Crystals powdered sugar
  • 8 tbsp butter
  • 1 tsp Adam's Extracts vanilla extract
  • Adam's Extracts red and yellow food coloring

For the pizza

  • 2 large Navel oranges peeled and separated
  • 1 14 oz can Mandarin oranges drained
  • black frosting for Jack-o-Lantern smile

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment or a Silpat baking mat.

  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar and shortening till fluffy.

  3. Add egg and vanilla to sugar mixture and mix well.

  4. Slowly, add in flours, baking powder, and salt. Mix till well combined.

  5. Remove dough from mixing bowl. Roll out with a rolling pin into a circle until about 1/4 inch deep. Take some extra dough and make a small square for the stem of the pumpkin.

  6. Bake in oven for 12-15 minutes until set and lightly browned. Remove from oven and cool completely.

For the frosting

  1. Combine all frosting ingredients (except food coloring) in a large mixing bowl using a hand blender until a smooth frosting appears.

  2. Add a few drops of red and yellow food coloring and mix well. Continuing adding food coloring until desired orange color appears. (I needed A LOT)

Assemble pizza

  1. Spread orange frosting over cooled cookie crust.

  2. Decorate with oranges and create a face with black frosting. Enjoy!

 

Interested in my other #HalloweenTreatsWeek recipes? Check out Chocolate Monster Cookies or Gluten Free Graveyard Dirt Cake

 

#HalloweenTreatsWeek is hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife & it’s a creepy and haunting week-long event, filled with some amazingly wicked Halloween treats, recipes and some frightfully fun giveaways.

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers,‘tis near Halloween.”

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For the 2nd annual #HalloweenTreatsWeek event, we have 41 fantastically talented bloggers that are sharing their favorite Halloween recipes throughout the week! There are going to be over 160 Halloween themed recipes shared during this year’s #HalloweenTreatsWeek and we can’t wait for you to see them all! Follow the hashtag #HalloweenTreatsWeek on social media and look at the bottom of each post to see all of the Halloween recipes that we’re sharing!

Plus, don’t forget that we have 6 (six) great giveaways for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsors!

Scroll down to take a look!

Prize #1

Prize #1 — Dixie Crystals is giving away a “Dinner and Dessert Set” – ONE 6-Quart Cook & Carry Programmable Slow Cooker, a Pyrex mixing bowl set plus some fun Dixie Crystals items like a Dixie Crystal Apron and Cookbook!

 

Prize #2

 

Prize #2 — Adam’s Extract is giving away – 1 Gift Pack – including 4oz Adams Best, 1.5 oz Peppermint, 1.5oz Almond, 1 bottle vanilla cinnamon sugar, 1 bottle pumpkin pie spice

 

 

Prize #3

Prize #3 —Wilton is giving away a Texturra 7-Piece Bakeware Set

 

Prize #4

Prize #4 — Sweets and Treats Shop is giving away a large baking box of goodies! Sweets and Treats will send one lucky winner a large assortment of sprinkles and lines and other samples of their products!

 

Prize #5

 

Prize #5 — Treat Street USA is giving away a set of Holiday Treat Decorations (1 Gummy Assortment, 1 Marshmallow Snowman, 1 Toy Solider and 1 Gingerbread Men)

 

Prize #6

Prize # 6Litehouseis giving away the following: 1 Litehouse® Honeycrisp Apple Cider, 1 Litehouse® Old Fashioned Caramel, 1 Litehouse® Pumpkin Spice Caramel, 1 Litehouse® Butterscotch Caramel & 1 Litehouse® Chocolate Dip, Snack Packs

 
 
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Giveaway open to US Residents 18 years or older. All entries will be verified. No PO Boxes Please. Prizes will be sent directly from sponsors to winners, bloggers are not responsible for prizes. This giveaway runs from October 7th – October 13th at 11:59PM EST. Winners will be selected soon afterward and contacted by e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. There are a total of 6 (six) prizes and therefore we will have a total of 6 (six) winners. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law.

 

Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week-long event, #HalloweenTreatsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like to Thank our amazing sponsors: Dixie Crystals, Adam’s Extract, Wilton, Sweets and Treats Shop, Treat Street USA and Litehouse! These wonderful sponsors provided the prize packs for our giveaways and also sent samples and products to the #HalloweenTreatsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes.

 

Check out the amazing #HalloweenTreatsWeek recipes from our bloggers today!