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Whalen Family Pizza dough

January 10, 2010 By Kelly 23 Comments

Whalen family Pizza Dough Recipe

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Homemade Pizzas for Kids

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 cups warm water
  • 2 1/4 tsps yeast or one packet: buy it in bulk for awesome savings
  • drip of honey or pinch of sugar
  • spices: I like Frontier’s pizza spice, but you can also use fresh herbs, I ADORE ground rosemary in this though. It’s a wonderful spice without the pokey “leaves”.
  • 1-2 tsps sea salt
  • 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
  • 3- 3 1/2 cups flour: I use unbleached, unbromated white flour and mix in 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour. You can also add pureed veggies, or finely grated veggies (depending on how picky your kids are).

Combine water and yeast in the bowl of your mixer. (Don’t have a mixer? This is a great recipe for building upper body strength!)

Add pinch of sweetner, salt, spices,and oil.

Using your dough hook (or a wooden spoon) stir in one cup at a time of flour at a time.

Once you have 3 cups in mix you can turn your dough hook up to 2, or if you are doing it by hand, turn it out onto a floured surface and start kneading.

You may need to add up to 1/2 cup more flour, just make sure to do it gradually, you want it to pull away from the sides of the bowl, or the surface you are kneading on.

Knead for about 10 minutes until the dough can be pulled between your fingers without breaking.

Form a ball, and put in a lightly oiled or floured bowl and cover with a towel. Put in a warm, draft-free spot.

After about 45 minutes-1 hour it should have doubled.

Turn out onto floured surface, cut in half to form 2 pizzas, or several pieces if you have mini pizza pans. Roll into circles. If you are an ex pizza pro like my hubby, you can toss them in the air.

Cover with your favorite sauce, pesto and or cheese and toppings.

We usually make these with homemade pizza sauce, mozzarella or white colby cheese, and pepperoni. I like to top mine with sundried tomatoes, olives, and roasted red peppers. Yum.

You can use this dough recipe for breakfast pizza, dessert pizza, and of course more traditional pizzas.

Enjoy!

Kelly

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Kelly Whalen is the founder and editor of the Centsible Life. She started the blog in 2008 as her family faced a mountain of debt and the fixer upper they purchased became a FIXER UPPER. The website was born out of her desire to share what was working (and what was not) on her family's journey to financial security. Kelly lives in Minneapolis with her family.

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  1. CentsibleLife says

    January 11, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    WAY cheaper for us. We'd pay $5-6 for a frozen pie that doesn't have weird ingredients, and the cost of making our own dough is probably around 50¢ a pie. Add a block of cheese for $3 and some canned sauce (or make your own) for about $1. So $4.50 for 2 large pies and that's with quality ingredients, I could make it cheaper.

    LOL, we actually have a great pizza place that delivers, but is close enough to walk to, wise guy. My hubby is a bit of a pizza connesuir. But you're right most of the pizza paces here stink.

  2. CentsibleLife says

    January 11, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    WAY cheaper for us. We'd pay $5-6 for a frozen pie that doesn't have weird ingredients, and the cost of making our own dough is probably around 50¢ a pie. Add a block of cheese for $3 and some canned sauce (or make your own) for about $1. So $4.50 for 2 large pies and that's with quality ingredients, I could make it cheaper.

    LOL, we actually have a great pizza place that delivers, but is close enough to walk to, wise guy. My hubby is a bit of a pizza connesuir. But you're right most of the pizza paces here stink.

  3. CentsibleLife says

    January 11, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    It's super easy once you get the hang of it. Might want to have a premade crust as a backup just in case.

  4. CentsibleLife says

    January 11, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    You'll have to let me know!

  5. CentsibleLife says

    January 11, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    It's super easy once you get the hang of it. Might want to have a premade crust as a backup just in case.

  6. CentsibleLife says

    January 11, 2010 at 6:03 pm

    You'll have to let me know!

  7. Evan says

    January 11, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    Kelly,

    1 Comment / 1 Question

    1 Question –> How do you think the price compares to buying the ingridents vs. buying a similarly sized frozen pizza (I use frozen pizza since I know it has to kick the butt of regular pizza place bought)?

    1 Comment –> Also, I bet yours tastes 1000 times better than the regular pizza you can buy down in PA!!!!!!!!

    – Wise A$$ New York Reader!

  8. Evan says

    January 11, 2010 at 5:08 pm

    Kelly,

    1 Comment / 1 Question

    1 Question –> How do you think the price compares to buying the ingridents vs. buying a similarly sized frozen pizza (I use frozen pizza since I know it has to kick the butt of regular pizza place bought)?

    1 Comment –> Also, I bet yours tastes 1000 times better than the regular pizza you can buy down in PA!!!!!!!!

    – Wise A$$ New York Reader!

  9. FFB says

    January 11, 2010 at 3:20 am

    Wow, you make your own pizza dough! We've made out own pizzas but started with a pre-made crust. We'll have to try this out.

  10. FFB says

    January 11, 2010 at 8:20 am

    Wow, you make your own pizza dough! We've made out own pizzas but started with a pre-made crust. We'll have to try this out.

  11. Emily says

    January 10, 2010 at 10:07 pm

    I'm always trying new pizza dough so I can't wait until our next pizza night to see how we like this one!

  12. Emily says

    January 10, 2010 at 10:07 pm

    I'm always trying new pizza dough so I can't wait until our next pizza night to see how we like this one!

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