This week we decided to take on a double duty! We bought pizza dough and learned how to work with the dough to shape it into personal pizzas, while also making our own puff pastry from scratch to bake with next week.
Pizza dough is actually quite easy to make at home, but like all yeast based doughs it needs some time to rise and to rest. So we worked with fresh pre-made dough, watching videos on how to move the dough around, pushing with the palm of our hand to stretch it into a circle. Then we dressed it up with some sauce and cheese and popped them in the oven! When they came out we added some basil and sat down to snack!
This week we also made puff pastry – a dough that uses layers of butter (like in a croissant) to create a puffed up, flaky dough that is great for sweet treats and savoury snacks. The dough requires a lot of folding and rolling to create the buttery layers. After creating at least three layers, we rolled our dough up into a number of balls and popped it in the freezer so that we could work with it next week!
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