Pizza Crust

Here is the recipe for my pizza crust, don't be intimidated it's super easy!

Pizza Crust

2 ½- 3 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 package of yeast (2 ¼ teaspoons)

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 cup very warm water (120-130 degrees)

Makes 2 pizzas.

In a large bowl mix 1 cup of flour, sugar, salt, and yeast. Add olive oil and water. Beat with a mixer on medium speed for 3 minutes. With a spoon, stir in enough flour until it forms a soft dough and leaves the side of the bowl . On a floured surface knead for 8 minutes or until the dough becomes smooth and springy. Loosely cover the dough with plastic wrap and let rest for 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Grease pizza pan. Cut dough in half. Pat one half down to form your pizza. Add toppings of your choice. Bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and crust is golden. ENJOY!

Chocolate Syrup

This is a very simple chocolate syrup recipe. Great for chocolate milk, over ice cream, or in your coffee!

Chocolate Syrup

½ cup cocoa powder

1 cup water

2 cups sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon vanilla

In a large saucepan whisk cocoa and water on medium heat until the cocoa is dissolved. Add sugar and whisk until dissolved. Make sure the sugar is dissolved our it will make your syrup grainy. Boil for 3 minutes over medium heat. Make sure and watch it or it will boil over and you will be cleaning up a huge mess like I did! Add salt and vanilla. Let the syrup cool completely before pouring into a clean glass jar. Store in the fridge. ENJOY!

Strawberry Galette

My husband loves this dessert with vanilla ice-cream! It’s a very light dessert so it's perfect if you want something tasty but not to filling. It's great if your strawberries are looking a little sad and need to be used! You can also serve it with homemade whip cream if your into that sort of thing.

Strawberry Galette

1 pie crust (pre-made or if your channeling your inner Martha Stewart you can make your own, I used pre-made)

15 strawberries, sliced

2 tablespoons sugar          

Sugar for sprinkling

1 teaspoon vanilla paste (optional, this is a little hard to find so if you don't have it don't worry about it)

2 teaspoons cornstarch

1 egg

1 teaspoon water

Preheat 350 degrees.

Serving size: 4

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Put sliced strawberries into a bowl, sprinkle with sugar, cornstarch and the very optional vanilla paste.  Mix until all the berries are coated.  Lay out the pie dough on the parchment paper. Starting from the middle and working out overlap the strawberries forming a circle about 1-inch from the edge of the pie crust.

Fold the edges of the dough over the strawberries to form a square (the middle will have the strawberries exposed). Now fold the corners over. Beat 1 egg with 1 teaspoon water (this is called an egg wash). Brush the dough with the egg wash. Sprinkle crust with raw sugar.

Bake for 35-40 minutes until golden brown. Cool for 10 minutes before slicing and serving. Enjoy!

Here's a how to guide on folding your galette:

Starting from the middle and working out overlap the strawberries forming a circle about 1-inch from the edge of the pie crust.

Fold the edges of the dough over the strawberries to form a square (the middle will have the strawberries exposed).

Now fold the corners over.  Boom! You've successfully folded your galette! 

Vanilla Coffee Syrup

This is a pretty basic syrup recipe but it's a great way to jazz up your coffee instead of just using sugar!

Vanilla Coffee Syrup

1 cup water 1 cup sugar 1 vanilla bean pod 1 tsp vanilla extract

Add sugar, water, scrapped vanilla beans and the rest of the pod in a pot. Melt the sugar at medium high heat. When melted turn down to low and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Take off the heat and add the vanilla extract. Let cool. You can take to pod out or leave it in. I leave mine in, it makes it look fancy lol.

Coffee Banana Breakfast Smoothie

Listen, it doesn't sound great but trust me on this one it's delicious! 

Coffee Banana Breakfast Smoothie
Serving  Size 1

1/2 cup ice
1 banana
1/4 cup rolled oats
1/4-1/2 cup coffee
3/4 cup almond milk or milk/dairy substitute 
1 tbs maple syrup or honey
1 tbs of your favorite type of nut butter, I use sunflower butter or peanut butter.
*optional your favorite protein powder. I use this protein powder, it's plant based so it's perfect for being lactose friendly. 

Add all ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Enjoy!

*note: There needs to be 1 cup of liquid. If you want to add more coffee and less milk or all milk for a kid friendly version go for it. As long as there is 1 cup liquid you're good to go!