You’ll never want to order pizza again after you’ve tasted how delicious your own crust can be! Don’t be afraid to throw a pizza stone with this crust on the grill either. Your pizza, just the way you like it!
Prep Time: 10 minutes (+ 60 minutes to rise)
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
1 package active dry yeast (or the equivalent from a jar of yeast – conversion printed on label)
1 cup warm water
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons olive oil
3 1/2 cups of flour
1 tablespoon cornmeal
6 ounces pizza sauce
2 cups of mozzarella cheese
Other desired toppings
Instructions
- In your mixing bowl dissolve yeast in warm water
- Add salt, olive oil, and 2 1/2 cups of flour
- Using a dough hook, mix ingredients on speed two for one minute
- If you don’t have a dough hook you can knead the dough by hand, it just takes a little longer
- Continuing on speed two, add remaining flour 1/2 cup at a time
- Knead until dough is mixed and holds together well
- Grease a second bowl
- Grease the top of the dough
- Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 to 1 1/2 hours
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F
- Brush a 13″-14″ pizza stone with oil
- Sprinkle with cornmeal
- Press dough out to the edges of the stone and form ridge to hold in the toppings
- Add toppings as desired
- Bake for 15-20 minutes
- Let cool for several minutes before slicing
Original recipe from KitchenAid’s Bowl Lift Stand Mixer Instructions and Recipes Book
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2 Comments
Hey there. I’m making the dough right now. I did exactly what you said, but i couldn’t get it to stick together in the ball–it was pretty flaky. Then I put it in the bowl to rise, and it’s been sitting for an hour now and hasn’t risen. How much bigger is it supposed to get? Thanks.
My dough usually doubles in size depending on how warm my house is, if it’s cold it’s not quite double. I’m wondering if you put too much flour in at one time. That might have made the dough too dry, causing the flakes. Did you start with just 2 1/2 cups of flour, beating it for a minute or so and then slowly adding the rest of the flour as needed? Sometimes if mine won’t come to a nice ball in my mixer I knead it by hand just a little to make sure all the flouer is mixed in. Let me know if that still doesn’t fix the problem!