Earlier this Advent season, I made a few elves to welcome back my nephews’ scout elf, Truck. The cookies were a hit! The boys loved them. The youngest even exclaimed, “they looked like Truck!” I genuinely love bringing joy to their little faces. Seeing them full of joy, wonder, and excitement is one of my favorite things about being an auntie.
To keep going with the elves, I knew that sometimes the elves get into mischief, and sometimes they bring treats. I also know that sometimes parents are up so late doing the dishes that the elves don’t have enough time to make their trip back to the North Pole. I thought an Elf Pizza delivery would be a great way to help them out and a fun way for me to secretly contribute to the fun!
I’ve seen a lot of “pizza” cookies on Pinterest and Instagram made with royal icing. I prepared to do this but then really liked the idea of building the pizza with actual flavorful toppings.
The dough base is a gingerbread cookie, which I topped with deep red royal icing “sauce.” I shaved some white chocolate for the cheese and placed it on the wet icing so it would stick. Finally, it was time to make my crowning jewel, the pepperoni. To make the pepperoni, I used the backside of an icing tip and cut circles out of Fruit-by-the-Foot. When my cookies were dry, I used edible markers (black and brown) to put the spices on the pepperoni.
My final touch on the cookies was using my kitchen torch to melt the “cheese” and crisp a little of the pepperoni. I wasn’t sure how noticeable it would be, but it was fun!
To make the pizza’s official, I created a pizza box with my Christmas logo and cut small squares of checkerboard wax paper to line the tiny pizza boxes. (Love, love, love)!
