Homemade Pizza Dough

Hi ya'll! {I just love saying "ya'll"} This is my second and hopefully final attempt at creating this post about my homemade pizza dough. My first try took forever to complete only for my netbook to freeze and of course the post didn't save. Sad day my friends -sad day.

Let's get started with the ingredients:

3/4 C warm water

1 pkg Rapid Rise Yeast

1 tsp sugar

2 1/4 C flour

1 tsp salt

3 tbps EVOO

{Oven: 400 degrees; Cook time: 20-30 depending on how crispy you want your pizza}

1.) Add rapid rise yeast and sugar into the warm water. Stir very well ensuring the yeast is completely diluted. Let sit for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes it'll have a thick top layer this means its ready for use. {Stir it just before you add into flour.}

2.) Mix salt, yeast mixture and EVOO into flour. You are now working on making your dough. Keep mixing it until you get a non-flaky dough or if you have a fancy mixing gadget now is the time to use it. I don't have one so I'm going old school mixing with my hand.

3.) Once the dough is ready let it sit for about an hour. I'm covering my dough with a kitchen towel because that's what my mom does =) {a few minutes before the hour preheat the oven.}

4.) Since I'll be making two small pizzas I'm cutting the dough into two pieces then I'll be rolling them out.

5.) Drizzle a little EVOO over your pizza sheet before placing the rolled pizza dough. I don't have one so I'm using the broiler tray.

6.) For a crispy crust bake the dough for about 10 minutes before adding toppings. Then, take it out, add pizza sauce, cheese, and all other toppings. Place back into oven and bake for 10-15 minutes or until cheese is as golden brown, yum.

And there you go my very first homemade pizza dough and pepperoni pizza! It was so delish! Hope you try this out because it is so worth it.

{Thanks to Kate from www.thesmallthingsblog.com for sharing this receipe.}

Until the next post,