Hello, Baker!

Having completely missed last month’s Daring Bakers challenge, I could not wait to get started on October’s. I was even more delighted when I saw that this month’s challenge was to make our very own pizza dough! The crackers from last month seemed like a neat change from the usual sugar filled recipes, but pizza dough was even better! The point of the Daring Bakers is to challenge ourselves with recipes we wouldn’t regularly attempt, right? Pizza dough seems like such a common recipe, but for me it was far from being on the top of the list of things to try next.

Pizza dough isn’t really something I ever thought I would want to take on again. You see, I had made a very miserable attempt at pizza in the past, when I was completely naive to baking, and it turned out so terrible that I just threw it all away. Of course, thinking back on it, I realize the majorly stupid mistake I had made; I thought I could make an entire pizza from scratch within an an hour or two. Obviously, knowing much better now, that isn’t really possible when you want to make the dough yourself and I can now understand why mine had turned out to be a gross mess of tasteless doughlike mush.

Rosa of Rosa’s Yummy Yums hosted this month’s challenge in honor of Sherry, a daring baker that passed away in July, and I am now very thankful that she stuck to Sherry’s pizza dough idea. Where I live it is almost impossible to find decent pizza so I am now very glad to know that I can easily make my own and actually enjoy it. This pizza dough was actually so good that I wouldn’t mind eating it completely plain and I’m also pretty sure that it would make excellent bread sticks!

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