My family love pizza and I love making it! Of course, as the kids have gotten older they like helping out too, putting the pepperoni and mozzarella on their pizza or the sliced tomatoes, mushrooms and grilled chicken on mom and dad’s.
I use Wolfgang Puck’s dough recipe and double it, which gives me four really good-sized pizzas. I also like doing it in the food processor with the dough blade though you have to be patient and help it get the flour worked in. I usually only let it rise for an hour and it doubles very well (this is especially nice when it’s 5:30 at night and you realize you forgot to start it sooner). I usually like to add a little bit of basil to the mix but didn’t this time because I wanted to make a sweet treat out of some of it.
After I’ve rolled it out I like to lightly brush olive oil on the whole thing — especially the edges — and then sprinkle the edges with some garlic salt. Then I put the sauce on (usually leftover from a batch I’ve made for pasta), the cheese and other toppings.
Wolfgang’s recipe doesn’t give any further instructions beyond just the recipe itself, so I put it in the oven at 450 degrees for about 14 minutes or until it’s as brown as we like it. A pizza stone also helps makes sure the whole thing gets cooked through.
Let it sit out of the oven for a minute before slicing it and enjoy!
[...] the same dough I used to make pizza (which made four good-sized rounds, only three of which we used for pizza!) I made a sweet treat [...]
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