Dessert Pizza

Years ago, when I was in college, my mom had a Pampered Chef party at the house. I remember the lady making this recipe to demo ten million of their gadgets, including the pizza stone, which my mom bought me. This is really easy, and so delicious. Plus, it looks really fancy. I recently made this to take to my brother+sister-in-laws' housewarming party. It was pretty much gone right away!

Dessert Pizza
Ingredients
1 package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 package (8oz) cream cheese, softened (I used Neufchatel because it has less fat)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 large Granny Smith apple
1/4 cup caramel ice cream topping
1/2 cup chopped peanuts
Sprite
Dental floss (don't worry, you won't eat it)

1. Preheat oven to 350. Form cookie dough into a ball. Place on center of lightly-floured round pizza stone (you could use a square one too, just adjust the shape of the dough). Press down to flatten slightly. Using a floured rolling pin, roll cookie out to about a 14-inch circle - dough should be about 1/4 inch thick. Bake 16-18 minutes or until golden brown.
2. Remove from oven and cool ten minutes. Use long piece of dental floss to carefully loosen cookie from stone. Finish cooling on the stone.
3. While cookie bakes, mix cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, vanilla in a small bowl. Once cookie is cool, spread mixture evenly over cookie, leaving small "crust" on edges. Now is a good time to slice the pizza - it will hold together better if you slice it before adding the apples. I used a pizza cutter with great results.
4. Slice apples into thin slices and dunk into Sprite (or any lemon-lime soda) to keep from browning. The recipe calls for the apples to be peeled and sliced (I think to sell their apple corer-peeler-slicer, but I think the pizza looks much prettier with the skin on). Arrange apples on cookie crust.
5. Heat caramel ice cream topping until warm and drizzle evenly over pizza.
6. Sprinkle chopped nuts over pizza.
Enjoy!