Tasty Tuesday: Mini Pizzas

A lot of my happiest childhood memories were created in the kitchen. I remember one particularly rainy day sitting on the kitchen counter helping my grandma measure and add ingredients for brownies. I remember feeling SO grown up carefully scooping the flour into the measuring cup, leveling it off and adding it to the mixer. She would always tell me, "you have to be so careful to get the measurements just right or the recipe wont turn out." I'm pretty sure that those special times spent with her instilled in me my love of cooking and baking.

Now that I am all grown with children of my own, i love, love, love including my them in the cooking and baking. It's an amazing how much my kids open up to me and how much bonding goes on while we work side-by-side creating something delicious. Which is why we've created 'Tasty Tuesday.' Every other Tuesday you'll find fun recipes for tasty treats, snacks and meals to make with your kids.

Today's 'Tasty Tuesday' recipe is Mini Pizzas.

For this recipe you will need:

            Crust:

1/2 cup milk
3 Tbs. sugar
2 tsp salt
3 Tbs. shortening
1 ½ c. warm water (about 105*-115-)
1 pkg. dry active yeast (1 Tbs.)
5 ½ cups unsifted flour

Scald milk; stir in sugar, salt, and shortening. Cool to lukewarm. Measure warm water into large warm bowl. Sprinkle yeast; stir until dissolved and let stand about 5 minutes. Add lukewarm milk mixture and 2 cups flour. Beat well, until smooth. Add one more cup flour. Beat until smooth. Add enough additional flour to make a soft dough. Turn out onto lightly floured board. Knead until smooth and elastic (about 8-10 minutes). Form into ball. Place in greased bowl. Cover; let rise in a warm place, free from drafts, until double in bulk (about 1 hour). Punch down. Let rest for 15 minutes. (makes 2 large pizza crusts. or about 12-16 mini pizzas)

-OR-
1 bag frozen rolls from your grocer's frozen section (we've used Rhode's Texas Rolls with fantastic results.)

          Toppings:
Get creative. You can top your pizzas with anything you love. Toppings can be things like: pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni, sausage, bacon, chicken, olives, onions, green peppers, mushrooms, pineapple . . . You get the idea.

Directions:
place all toppings in separate dishes. Roll crust dough until flat. place on cookie sheet. Let your kids create their own pizza by layering toppings of their choice on the the crust. Bake at 400 for 12-18 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes. enjoy!
 Your turn! Let me know how your mini pizzas turn out!
Oh, and if you have a recipe that you love making with your kids, email me at familyfunfridayblog@gmail.com