Molasses: Molasses Pizza Crust

I rolled out this pizza dough way to thick so it cooked kind of funny, but I'm sure if you have a normal oven, a normal baking sheet and half a brain that it will turn out way better for you.

Sticking with the Super Bowl theme, pizza seemed appropriate and Laura had been looking for a good pizza dough recipe for a while.

I saw this recipe as I was looking for a pizza crust with molasses in it. 

It turned out delicious and if I hadn't used up my entire jar of molasses on this meal, I'd probably totally make it again. 

I think of all the recipes from molasses, this was both Laura's and my favorite.

Molasses Pizza Crust

enough for one large pizza

1 1/2 cups hot water 

2 Tbsp molasses

2 packets of active yeast

3 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp salt

1 Tbsp olive oil

corn flour

melted butter with garlic

As toppings I used:

Onions, red bell pepper and eggplant (pre-roasted in oven)
fresh mozzarella 
arugula (sprinkled on after taking out of oven)
equal parts molassas and balsamic vinegar for drizzle (also after taking pizza out)

Directions:

1. Place hot water in mixer bowl and stir in molasses. Once cooled to warm, sprinkle on yeast and gently stir it in. Let sit 10 minutes.

2. Mix flour and salt together. Add flour mix and olive oil to yeast mixture.

3. Using a dough hook, run mixer on low/stir for 5 minutes.

4. Form dough into ball and place in a lightly greased bowl, sprinkle with flour. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and kitchen towel, let rise in fridge over several hours or on counter top for 2 hours, or until doubled.

5. Preheat oven to 550 degrees with pizza stone, hold temperature at least 30 minutes before baking pizza.

6. Form dough into pizza crust, top as desired. Brush crust with garlic butter. Slide onto preheated pizza stone, bake 5-7 minutes or until done, using oven on bake or broil setting, as desired. 

recipe from here

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