Terrible Toadstool Pizzas!

As my previous posts might have suggested it's my daughter's birthday. I was responsible for making a cake and whilst that was a hurdle in itself I also gotvolunteered to make everything else.

Such things as fearsome orange eyes

Gruffalo brain bread

But one of the big hitters was the Terrible Toadstool Pizzas. A magic little recipe from the Gruffalo's cookbook. I thought I would share it!

You will need

For the pizza base
200 grams of plain flour
1 tablespoon of olive oil
120 mls warm water
1 teaspoon of oregano
2 teaspoons of baking powder
A pinch of salt

For the tomato sauce
2 tablespoons of tomato paste
2 tablespoons of hot water

To make

Get your oven on at 200 degrees.

Throw the ingredients for the pizza base together into a dough. Because this recipe doesn't use yeast there is no need to knead or rest it.

So you can get straight to rolling it out into shapes. Roll it flat

Then find a circle cutter of some description. I just use whatever is to hand. Usually an upturned glass.

Then the fun bit. Normally I would let my daughter join in but today was about speed. So I did it all myself. Cut out a stalk on each disc like so

Place them all on a baking tray

Now mix your tomato paste and water to make a tomato sauce and spread this with the back of a spoon over the tops of the toadstools

Add little balls of mozzarella to each one for the spots

Can you see the toadstool'ness!!!

Now fling them in the oven for twelve minutes.

And take them out when done

Serve them up as part of your kids feast!!!

And make sure to have a nibble of some of the tasty blighters yourself!!!

Right, I promise it's back to spicy tomfoolery after this!!! :0)