Welcome to our annual collection of community holiday recipes. Each year, the 91Ô­´´ Advance Times casts a wide net asking for local people to share Christmas recipes that hold some significance to their family or themselves. This year, there's everything from cookies, pancakes, and fruit pizza to scalloped potatoes and cornbread.

We hope you enjoy this year's feature. And while one of the recipes is provided below, the entire section is available for viewing by clicking into our eEditions here.

Happy holiday, one and all.

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My family enjoyed this fruit pizza recipe for a special dessert during the holidays.
Often for Christmas Eve, we gathered and made homemade pizzas together. 
We are pizza lovers, and this desert seemed to hit the spot and keep the pizza theme alive!

Creative and colourful.

Crust can also include your own sugar cookie recipe.

– Melba Lewis, 91Ô­´´ Hospice Residence volunteer & co-facilitator of hospice training
 

Fruit Pizza

Crust ingredients:
• 2/3 cup margarine
• 1/4 cup icing sugar
• 1 1/3 cup flour

Crust directions: 
• Mix together and press onto pizza pan
• Bake at 350ºF degrees for 8 to 10 minutes
• Let cool
• Whip together until smooth the following:
     - 8 ounces cream cheese
    - 1 tsp vanilla extract
    - 3 tbsp icing sugar
• Spread over the cooled crust
• Decorate top of crust with sliced colourful fruit. (Some suggestions are strawberries, pineapple, peaches, kiwi, blueberries, raspberries, and mandarin orange slices)

Glaze ingredients:
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 2 tbsp white sugar
• 1 tsp lemon juice
 
Glaze directions:
• Cook ingredients in a saucepan until it bubbles softly and thickens
• Pour over fruit pizza
• Cool in refrigerator at least 2 to 3 hours
•  Enjoy