Pizza Birthday Cake
/This looks amazing!!! Kind of like a really super, deep dish Chicago pizza.
Here's the recipe!
For baking use
- 1 pot (6 1/3 diameter , 4 inch tall )
For dough
- 1 ½ pound all purpose flour
- 2 ½ cups warm water
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 tsp sugar
- ½ oz dry yeast
For topping
- 1 ½ cup pizza sauce
- 14 oz cheese, grated or thinly sliced
- 14 oz pepperoni
- fresh mix of greens (optional)
Instructions
- Combine yeast and sugar in a small bowl. Stir in warm water.
- Sift flour and salt into a large bowl. Add yeast mixture and olive oil and stir until combined.
- Knead the dough on the lightly floured surface for 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic.
- Return the dough into the bowl.
- Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for 1 ½ -2 hours, until doubled in size.
- After rising, punch the dough down and place it to a flour-dusted surface and knead it around a bit to push the air out with your hands.
- Divide the dough into 8 balls.
- Roll six balls out into a 1/5 inch thick layers and cut out 6 rounds 6 1/3 inches (16 cm) each in diameter.
- Let them rise in a baking tin for 10-15 minutes.
- Bake in the preheated oven (400F) for 15 minutes. Let them cool a little bit.
- Line bottom and sides of pot with baking paper.
- Roll the rest of dough out into a 1/5 inch thick layer and cover the sides of the pot but not the bottom.
- Place one layer of pre-baked dough on the bottom of the pot.
- Add tomato sauce, pepperoni and cheese.
- Place next layer of dough.
- If necessary fill cracks with dough.
- Repeat, until you have all the layers complete.
- Remove the excess dough and tuck in the edges.
- Bake in preheated oven at 400F for 25 minutes.
- Remove it from the oven.
- Let it cool in the pot for 5 minutes then carefully remove.
- Top with fresh mix of greens and enjoy!