The birthday is for soon-to-be-3, Charile...so I was thinking this will make a nice menu item for he and his friends! I got the recipe from the FoodNetwork Magazine...they got it from the Illinois State Fair.
The recipe says to use refrigerator pizza crust in a tube (which might be handy when making for a crowd), but I used my standard tried and true homeade pizza crust recipe. After you decide the crust, there's nothing to it...Just add your favorite pizza toppings. I made this one very basic.
1. Tomato sauce, sausage, pepperoni, mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
2. Roll it up, pinching the sides to seal it all in.
3. Then slide in a popsicle stick
4. Finally top with more cheese, toppings (The idea is to top it with what's inside, so that people will know what they're getting...handy.) and oregano or whatever Italian seasonings you have. The recipe did say to add tomato sauce to the top too. I thought that seemed like overkill.
5. I let them cool for quite a while, since I was testing this with a 3 year old.
6. Enjoy!
So, here's what I'll do differently for the Big Day:
-Make them smaller. The stick thing didn't hold it up. As you can see in the photo above, Chach had to palm it. (Of course, he didn't know the difference...he's not even 3 yet)
-Make a whole variety...I think some nice add ins would include:
spinach, mushrooms, peppers, onions, zucchini (especially since they seem to be growing out my ears right now), tomatoes, fresh basil, yadda, yadda....
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