Sugar Cookies & Pizza

Yesterday I got the baking bug and decided that I needed to make sugar cookies and homemade pizza -- yum!  Maddie and I made the cookies -- she put the blue sugar on all the blue cookies.  While doing this she turned to me and said -- This is the best day of my whole life! -- The things she says!

Anyway, the cookies are from this book:

It's the Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies recipe from Mary Engelbreit'S Cookies, and I've made them so many times! 

Then it was time for pizza.  I used the basic pizza dough recipe from The Pizza & Pasta Cookbook(which appears to be out of print!)  I mixed up the dough before starting the cookies so that it would have time to rise.  The rising seemed to fascinate Maddie  :)

Here it is after a rise, punch down, short kneading and a little rest.  (You need to let it rest or you won't be able to flatten it out -- it will keep springing back on you.)

Then I let everyone top their own pizza.  I bought pizza sauce, cheese, pine nuts (my favorite!), pre-cooked chicken. . . you get the idea.  Here's Pete's in the oven --

I did use a pizza stone, which seemed to give the pizza a nice crust.  And here is Pete enjoying his.

No big plans for the weekend, so I hope to get some sewing and possibly some spinning done.  Stay tuned!

** Oh yeah, and the Opal Royal goes to Natalie who was the first person to email me. 

Comments

[Jennifer]

Everything looks delicious!

[michele]

What a wonderful day...the cookies are so pretty and the pizza looks yummy. I love it when me make our own pizzas...and pinenuts are good on anything :) Have a great weekend!

[Teresa C]

Yum! We love home made pizza around here. Maddie is such a cutie. I remember my little red head. Not so little anymore. Mine has blue eyes, and I think it is interesting how a blue-eyed redhead and a brown eyed one can look so alike, yet so different. I'll have to post a pic of her when she was little, they are remarkabley similar. Hmmm....

[Vicki]

Yummy! I'm a big fan of Pizza Hut, but nothing beats home made pizza. Especially with that kind of dough. I usually go for the package of dough mix that only takes like 5 minutes of resting. So lazy...

[Norma]

Mmm, homemade pizza, if properly done....well, there is nothing better!Love the look on Pete's face. ;-)

[mrspilkington]

i've got to try both of those...they look scrumptious!

p.s.- i've been enjoying the sewing posts!

[trish]

I love pine nuts but never once did I ever think about putting them on pizza! I will definitely be trying that! Thanks for the idea