Homemade Pizza Dough

You guys are probably already pros at making pizza crust/
bread/yeast-ie dough-ie things, but it has always intimidated me.  Like bad.  But one of my friend's recently taught me how to make homemade bread successfully and it gave me a little bit of confidence to try to make my own pizza dough [because we all know how much we LOVE pizza around here...especially Will].  This was a recipe I found off of Pinterest and it turned out deeee-licious and was super duper easy [and quick!  Whenever I think of yeast I think of hours of rising bread but this only takes 10 minutes].  You can find the website here.

Dough Ingredients:

2 1/2 teaspoons rapid rise yeast [1 packet]

1 cup water

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons honey

1 teaspoon salt

2 Tablespoons olive oil

Pizza Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons olive oil

3/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning [this is clutch!!  it tasted so good]

Mozzarella cheese

Pizza sauce

Toppings

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, combine water and yeast and stir until the yeast is dissolved.

2. Add in the flour, honey, salt, and olive oil and use a wooden spoon to combine.  Once the ingredients are well enough combined, knead the dough with your hands for a little bit.

3. Form the dough into a ball and let it sit for 10 minutes [I sprayed the bowl with non-stick spray and put the dough back in the bowl].

4. Pre-heat over to 450 degrees and spray your pizza pan [we have a pizza stone, still sprayed it] with non-stick spray

5. Roll the dough out in a 16-inch circle.  Roll the edges of the dough.

6. Combine the 2 Tablespoons of olive oil and the Italian seasoning and brush over the entire dough.

7. Cook the dough for 8 minutes.

8. Remove from the oven and add sauce and toppings.  Return to the over and cook for 10-12 more minutes.

It was sooooo good and crunchy [I love crunchy crust].