Pizza pizza pizza!

In my family we love pizza. I do have to admit we are a bit on the spoiled side when it comes to pizza, we either home make it or get it from papa murphys and some times papa johns if we need to be quicker. This is an extremely easy dough recipe that I love and it doesn't stop at just pizza, I use it for a lot of things! It has just a perfect amount of sweet to it and only calls for six ingredients! I grew up with a Bosch and absolutely love Bosch, however my husband and I got a kitchen aid when we got married and lived in the smallest apartment and storing the kitchen aid was easier, I do all of my mixing with a kitchen aid whisk and dough hook. You can also mix this by hand which I do on occasion when I don't want the mess of the mixer. No do tend to usually opt for the mixer where I have two littles who seem to want to be attached at my hips while I'm making anything.

Extremely easy pizza dough:
Time: 45 minutes
Yeild: 6-8 Pizza's or one large pizza

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 tsp yeast. (I use fleichmann's instant)*

• 1 cup water, split into 1/4 cup and 3/4 cup

• 1-2 tsp honey**

• 3 cups flour

• 1 tsp oil (keep oil out, you will use a little more)

• 1 tsp salt

In a bowl combine yeast, 1/4 cup water and honey. Let sit for about five minutes until it gets poofy. Add remaining water (3/4 cup), oil and 1 cup of flour, whisk together until smooth. Once smooth if using a mixer change to your dough hook and add remaining flour and salt, once dough forms knead for 2-3 minutes. Pull dough out and pour a little oil on the bottom of the bowl and roll dough in it, place dough to the side. (On a side note I like to cover my dough with a  hot wet towel or hot wet paper towels, I feel like it helps it rise better.) let stand for 30 minutes. After dough has had time to rise pull it out and divide it into 6-8 equal parts. ( I say 6-8 because it depends on how you like the thickness of your pizza. We tend to like it thinner so I divide it into 8. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Let dough rest another ten minutes. Clear a space on your counter and pour out some oil, take a paper towel and spread it out. This is so the dough won't stick to your counter. You can use flour if that is your prefered method, however I feel the dough seems to be less doughy on the bottom if you use oi. Roll out dough and top with your favorite toppings. Bake for 9-12 minutes, and Enjoy!

*Yeast: 2 1/4 tsp is eqivalent to 1 packet if you use packets.

**Honey: with pizza dough I only use 1 tsp of honey, if we ever make dessert pizzas I add 2 tsp of honey because I like the extra sweet. 

You can do one large pizza however in my family we like different toppings, do we do it individual. We so will turn this into calzones too by only building your pizza on half the dough and fold the remaining dough over and pinch the sides together.

Cinnamon pizza: 

Ingredients:

• Dough from recipe above
• Stick of butter at room temperature
• Cinnamon/Sugar mixture to your liking
• Oats (optional)

Take the dough and rub your butter on it until you have the desired amount, sprinkle cinnamon/sugar mix over, and top with oats. Its a spin off of papa murphy's cinnamon wheel. Enjoy!