A simple recipe for gooey cheese pizza on top of a cheesy pizza crust.
One of our favorite things to make for dinner is pizza.. with an AWESOME crust. The one thing our family really cares about is the crust. Really good crust. Puffy, chewy, and thick crust!
Most of the time we buy a ball of dough already made from our local grocery store, but nothing, and I mean nothing, beats a homemade crust.
Homemade pizza crust can sound a little intimidating when you can easily buy it from the store, however, homemade pizza crust is unlike anything you could ever buy, have delivered, or order.
Here a few of my tips for making the perfect homemade pizza dough:
1. If you don’t have a mixer you could also use the bread blade that came with my food processor!
3. One of the changes I made when I made this crust was that I dusted cornmeal on my pizza pan instead of flour like the recipe suggests. The main reason you sprinkle cornmeal onto the bottom of your pizza pan is so that the pizza won’t stick to the bottom of the pan, but it also gives the pizza crust a little flavor and crispy bottom texture as well. You can find cornmeal at almost all grocery stores in the baking aisle. If you are having a hard time finding cornmeal, you could just use flour to dust the pan, but you’ll lose the flavor cornmeal provides.
4. If you have had trouble with yeast and getting your dough to rise in the past here are a couple of possible answers to why your dough didn’t rise:
Make sure the water is warm when you mix the water and yeast because hot water can kill the yeast and make it not rise properly.