Dessert Pizza Pina Colada

A great dessert pizza with tropical flavours from pineapple, coconut and lime.

This is one of the recipes I tested after becoming curious about the whole concept of pizza as a dessert or snack. I like when you can take a concept that is well established and turn it around a bit to achieve something that is better. In this case, it means taking pizza and turning it into dessert. I also see this as a fun way to end an evening where you have been offered pizza and happen to have some dough over which you can then experiment a bit with - let the guests fantasize a bit about what a good dessert pizza would have for toppings and try to get so close to their suggestions as possible. Who knows - maybe a magical taste combination will be created that way.

In this recipe, I thought not only of creating a pizza as a dessert but also working in pineapple, which is and has been a hotly debated ingredient in pizza for a long time. Personally, I have no problem with pineapple on pizza but think that people are allowed to eat what they think tastes good. We Swedes generally seem to like pineapple on pizza as Hawaii ends up in 3rd place (in 2020) and is one of the most popular pizzas after kebabpizza and vesuvio according to information listed by Foodora. Foodora also reports that more than 1 pizza is ordered per second on New Years Day in Sweden, which is quite respectable. Since this recipe also make the pizza as dessert, I hope that it is less scary to try pineapple on the pizza.

Since I had chosen to use pineapple on this pizza, I thought I might as well go with it and pick the flavors from a pina colada. Pineapple, lime and coconut is a very tasty combination that I always liked. I also thought that you could choose to introduce the lime flavor in the form of a curd that replaces the tomato sauce on a normal pizza. That way, the cooking process will be quite similar to a normal pizza as well. For the coconut taste, I chose to roast coconut flakes and sprinkle them over the finished pizza, but you could consider using coconut cream as well. I also added a few lime pieces for decoration as I saw some pina colada served in glasses decorated with pineapple and lime slices.

I really liked the end result and thought the flavors mixed well with the pizza dough. When you eat the pizza and get a sweet pineapple piece among the base of lime curd, it will be a nice and sweet surprise. The coconut taste (and the aroma if you have roasted the coconut flakes) is always in the background together with the pizza dough, which with a little salt and slightly burnt edges frames everything perfectly. As I said, I really like the end result but I expect it is not for everyone. :)