Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Baking pizza with my granddaughter...







Oh, this is the life - to bake with my granddaughter.  She has loved to play with the dough since she was very small, about 3 years old.  The new bread machine from Emeril is wonderful.  I love the large capacity.  It will make 3 pounds of dough.  So, we made the dough and had enough to make 4 - 10 inch pizzas.  The recipe came in the book with the machine.  I was worried because it had no sugar.  Here is the recipe: 
1-2/3 cups water
2-1/2 Tablespoons olive oil
2-1/2 teaspoons salt
5-1/3 cups white flour
2-1/2 teaspoons yeast (active dry, quick-rise or bread machine)
Use dough cycle and add ingredients to machine in order given.  Start machine.  At the end of the cycle, turn the machine off and remove the bread pan.  The dough is ready to use.
McKenna made her own as you can see.  She wanted a cheese and black olive pizza.  I had a sweep with everything I had on hand (we were out of pepperoni) and Papa had a sweep with lots of jalapenos :)  The sauce was picked up in Wisconsin and called Dei Fratelli Pesto Italian Dip.  Very interesting and delicious.  The last piece of dough was used to make a dessert pizza - Chocolate Pizza!  Wonderful.  I used a cook and serve chocolate pudding and let it cool.  This was spread on the pizza and then a crumb topping was placed.  Everyone enjoyed the pizzas. 

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