You have no idea how excited I am about this.
Yesterday Christian and Juliette were sick and not feeling well and just wanted to sit on my lap all day. Fine.
But that gets boring after a while I have to admit so I turned the TV on and decided to watch Cake Boss – LOVE that show.
Turns out Linus likes it too – especially after they made this solar system cake.
So after watching about 10 episodes of that I decided I needed cake. Not that I can make one even close to the ones on the show and I really didn’t feel like going to the effort of trying – I really just wanted to eat some cake. So I whipped up a box cake.
Then I realized it was 4:30 so I should make the pizza dough for dinner, so I got that going with my trusty little helper, Juliette. Just as I was throwing a towel (I was out of plastic wrap which I prefer) over the bowl so the dough could rise, Jeremiah walked in the door.
I announced I was making pizza and he wasn’t terribly excited about it. He would have eaten it without complaining, but he just wasn’t real thrilled with the idea. So I offered to switch it up and make Salmon Salad Sandwiches. No big deal at that point in my dinner prep. Then he discovered I made a cake and was like, “Oh, why couldn’t you have made something with like, apples or something.” (man, this makes him sound complain-y. He’s really not don’t worry – he almost NEVER complains about what I am feeding him)
So I was left with a lump of rising pizza dough.
Hmmmm……
Stuck it in the fridge and figured we would eat it tomorrow.
The next morning I got up and remembered this dessert pizza that we used to get from the only pizza place that delivered to our house that was had WAY out in the boonies of Washington. When I was growing up there wasn’t a pizza place that delivered out there so it was quite the novelty when I was an adult and living out there, to be able to have pizza delivered. Anyway, it was SO good and we used eat a lot of it.
So this seemed like a great use for the dough that had no job.
Ingredients
1 egg
for the dough:
1/2 teaspoon Instant Or Active Dry Yeast
3/4 cups Warm Water
2 cups All-purpose Flour
1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
1/4 cup Olive Oil
for the filling:
2 apples, peeled and diced
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup apple juice (optional – you can just add extra water and a tad more sugar if you don’t have the juice)
1 cup water
2 tablespoons cornstarch
pinch of salt
for the frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon merengue powder
3 tablespoons milk
Preparation Instructions
For the dough:
Sprinkle yeast over 3/4 cup warm water. Let stand for a few minutes.
In a food processor or mixer with dough hook, combine flour and salt. Drizzle in olive oil until combined with flour. Next, pour in yeast/water mixture and mix until just combined, and the dough comes together in a sticky mass.
Coat a separate mixing bowl with a light drizzle of olive oil, and form the dough into a ball. Toss to coat dough in olive oil, then cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and set it aside for 1 to 2 hours, or store in the fridge until you need it.
Preheat oven to 400º as you are getting the filling started.
For the filling:
Combine the apples, sugar, cinnamon, juice, water and salt in a medium saucepan over high heat. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat to medium and simmer until apples are soft, about 15-20 minutes.
In a small cup or bowl, combine the cornstarch with about a tablespoon of cold water to make a thin paste. Pour into the apple mixture and stir until thickened. You want the mixture to be pretty thick so that it doesn’t run out the dough while baking.
Now roll out the dough but rather than using flour on your counter to keep it from sticking, use sugar. So on a lightly sugared surface, roll out the dough into a circle – roll it pretty thin.
Make an egg wash by cracking the egg into a bowl and adding a tablespoon of water. Whisk for a second with a fork just to combine. Set aside.
Place the filling in the center of the dough.
Using a pastry brush, brush a little of the egg wash all around the edge of the dough. Fold one half of the dough over and crimp the edges to seal them. Place on a pizza pan and bake until golden brown and crunchy, about 20 minutes.
Allow to cool about 15 minutes otherwise the frosting will just melt all over the place.
Once it’s fairly cooled off but still warm, make the frosting. Combine the ingredients in a small bowl and stir with a fork until smooth. Drizzle over the pizza and serve.
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