The kids are going to love this Pizza Pinwheels Recipe! These pepperoni pinwheels are fast and easy to make and have so much flavor, too! If you like pinwheel appetizers, you’re not going to want to miss out on this!
These fun game day appetizers are great for game day or can even be the main meal! Feel free to add your own pizza toppings as well and make them your own! This is such a fun and unique way to make pizza!
You may also hear these called by another name – Mexican pinwheels. Either way, it’s the same simple recipe! Make certain to preheat oven, serve warm, and don’t forget your pizza sauce for dipping!
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Pizza Pinwheels Recipe
Since this is a fairly simple recipe to make, it’s one that everyone in the family can jump in and help with. Have each person take a specific job and whip these up fast!
My boys love to eat this simple pizza recipe and have asked for this for years. I’m always happy to give it to them because I love it just as much as them! I also love that it doesn’t take a ton of work.
What other toppings could you add to this simple pizza recipe?
There are so many great choices. Red peppers, bell peppers, black olives, and extra Italian seasoning, too! I like to pile in the cheese as well because…cheese is awesome.
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The all purpose helps prevent the dough from sticking and the semolina flour is slightly coarser and helps the pizza slide off the peel and on to the baking steel. If you don't have semolina, you can use 100% all-purpose flour.
The best flour for making Neapolitan Pizza Dough is 00 Pizza Flour. This type of pizza dough is thin and crispy with a slightly chewy texture. 00 Pizza Flour is an Italian-milled, finely ground wheat flour. It is perfect for Neapolitan Pizza Dough because it produces a light and airy crust with a slightly chewy centre.
Made from durum wheat, semolina flour is coarser than regular flour so it's slower to absorb water. Other types of flour such as rye, rice, corn, and whole wheat (or a combination of two or more) can also be used as peel dust.
So if you're looking for a light and airy crust with lots of air pockets, then you should go with Tipo 00 flour. If you're after a crust with a little less crunch and more chewiness, opt for bread flour.
The difference between bread flour and 00 flour is the protein content, and therefore the gluten levels. Strong bread flours tend to have higher levels of gluten compared to 00 flour. 00 flour is also less absorbent than bread flour, meaning less water is required when using 00 flour.
So while you can use an all purpose flour to make your pizza dough, and it will be perfectly edible, it is likely to be a bit softer and spongier than pizza made from 00 flour. Another difference is that 00 flour is made from durum wheat, while all-purpose flour is not.
While 00 flour is generally our pick for high temp, short-cook style pizza dough (like a Neapolitan pizza dough), please note that 00 flour is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
The main reason you sprinkle cornmeal or flour onto the bottom of your pizza tray or pizza stone is so that it will stick to the bottom of the pizza dough. This way when it cooks it won't stick to the pan.
If you're baking the pizza in the oven, whether on a pizza stone or not, I always pre-bake the dough for 4-5 minutes before adding toppings, to make sure the pizza dough cooks crisp on the outside and soft and airy in the middle. Once you add the Pizza Sauce and toppings, return it to the oven to finish baking.
If your pizza dough is quickly snapping back or difficult to stretch, your dough is too tight. Cover your dough with plastic wrap and let it sit for 10-15 minutes. After a bit of rest, the gluten in the dough will relax, making the process of stretching much easier.
Before you begin stretching, warm up your cold dough for at least 30 minutes at room temperature. Gluten, the protein that makes pizza dough chewy, is tighter in cold conditions like the fridge, which is why cold pizza dough will stretch out and snap back just like a rubber band.
Why pizza dough snaps back: gluten. The culprits of this doughy push-and-pull are the tight and stubborn gluten strands within the dough. Actions like kneading, folding, and shaping all strengthen the gluten network, but sometimes they make it so strong that the dough becomes resistant to stretching.
All Purpose Flour or Bread Flour mixed with Semola Remacinata di Grano Duro for thick crust pan pizza. “00” Farina di Grano Tenero mixed with Bread Flour for long rise, thin crust pizza (pizzeria style) “00” Farina di Grano Tenero for fresh, egg pasta.
There are many tricks to achieving a tasty, homemade pizza dough that rises into a beautiful pizza crust, such as making sure your ingredients are at right temperature, using half bread flour for a stronger dough and half all-purpose flour for a nice rise, substituting honey for sugar to help caramelize the crust and ...
New York pizza dough, on the other hand, is generally made from American bread flour. Also high in protein, it readily develops gluten (the protein matrix that gives bread structure).
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