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Recipe: Waffle Pizza

Today I saw a great idea for dinner: Waffle Pizza

It's a pizza, made in your waffle maker!

How fantastic is that?

I'm always looking for different ways to use the tools and appliances that I already have on hand, so this was perfect.

Let me give you a sneak peak at what I'm talking about:

That's right Friends, that is a Pizza, not a waffle.

Pizza fillings inside of a double layer of pizza dough -super yum.

Let's get started.

First, I made some home made bread / pizza dough in my bread machine.

I found one recipe that works great in my bread machine posted on Frugal Upstate's blog. Click HERE for her recipe (Also posted below)

I put the ingredients in my machine in the order they are listed below (it correlates with my bread machine's instructions - be sure to check yours), set it to the dough setting and went back to playing with my kids.

Pizza Hut Style Pizza Dough - For Bread Machine

Pizza Hut Style Pizza Dough*

1 1/3 cups water
2 tsp sugar
1 1/4 tsp salt
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp cornmeal
3 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1 1/2 tsp yeast

Add ingredients to bread machine, according to manufacturer’s settings, and run dough setting. After the machine beeps, roll out the dough.

Now, lets make some WAFFLES.  

Errr... I mean Pizza. 

Okay, Waffle Pizza's!

My inpsiration for tonight's dinner can be found HERE.

Emily shared her fantastic idea for Waffle Pizza on the SITS website.

*Be sure to check out her blog post, she gives great ideas for variations on this recipe for other meals and desert combinations! *

1. While the dough is in the final stages, go ahead and heat up your Waffle Maker.

Here is my Dough, cut into 3 pieces for three "waffles"

2.  Roll out your dough as thin as possible.

3.  Get your toppings ready (Canadian bacon, turkey pepperoni, mushrooms and pineapple (not shown).

4. Spray the waffle maker with Pam.

5. Place the bottom layer of your "sandwich" on the waffle maker and stack with toppings.

6. Then fold over to make a sandwich and lock it down

7.  Trim around the edges with a knife while it's baking up.  I cooked ours for anywhere between 3-5 minutes depending on how many toppings we used.

The Feedback:  10 out of 10

A direct quote from KidMo, 

" The flavor and seasoning is better than I thought"

(WHO is this kid? He cracks me up)

Give Waffle Pizza a try at your house!  

I'd love to hear how your family likes this meal.

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Craft Junkie Too, Making The World Cuter, Craft O Maniac, Keeping it Simple, Polish the Stars, Paisley Passions, 

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Cupcakes

Today we are giving a HUGE (chocolatey) shout out to

Your Homebased Mom

I recently saw her blog post for Peanut Butter - Chocolate Twist Cupcakes and fell in love.

I knew I had to make them immediately.

Here is a photo of her perfect creation
(not to be confused with my attempt above)

Isn't her cupcake just beautiful?

Mine may not look perfect, but boy did they taste good!

Let's go through the steps of making these awesome treats.

First, go HERE to view the recipe, I will also paste it below.  Home Based Mom was kind enough to make a printable for her recipe, so be sure to go on over to her website to get that and give her some comment love.

1/2 C butter (room temperature)

3 eggs (room temperature)

2 1/2 C flour

2 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 C creamy peanut butter

1 C packed brown sugar

3/4 C granulated sugar

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

1 C milk

4 oz. milk chocolate, melted

1 recipe Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

1 recipe Chocolate Frosting

1.  Mix together flour, baking powder and salt in one bowl.  Set aside.

2.  Preheat oven to 375.  In a large bowl (or your favorite Kitchen Aid) beat butter for about 30 seconds and then add peanut butter and combine.

3. Add in brown sugar and white sugar, about a 1/4 cup at a time.  Beat at a medium speed until combined and mixed together (remember to scrape the sides along the way).

(Don't worry about the "interesting" texture here, keep on pressing forward!)

4. Add in eggs, beating well after each one.  Add vanilla.

5: Add in flour and milk alternating. Mix on low speed after each addition.

(Melt chocolate in microwave)

 6. Pour half of the batter in another bowl and add melted chocolate.

(note- my chocolate batter turned out a little thick, watch the ratio of chocolate to batter)

7.  Fill lined muffin cups half with peanut butter batter and half chocolate batter. Fill about 2/3 full. Use knife to swirl the batter in each cup.

(note - I chose not to swirl my batter but rather left them stacked)

8.  Bake for about 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Make sure to let the cupcakes cool entirely before frosting.

( I like the swirled / stacked look of the two flavors!)

9. While cupcakes are cooling, start mixing up your frosting.

Head on over to Your Homebased Mom for all her frosting tips!  Follow her recipes below, I've honestly never had yummier frosting - ever!

Peanut Butter Frosting:
8 oz. cream cheese, softened to room temperature
1/2 C creamy peanut butter
2 tsp vanilla
6 C powdered sugar.
2-4 tsp of milk until desired consistency
Beat cream cheese, peanut butter  and vanilla until light and fluffy.  Gradually add in powdered sugar.  Add milk, 1 tsp at a time until desired consistency.  Divide into two portions.  Set aside one for the Chocolate Frosting.
Chocolate Frosting:
1/2 of peanut butter frosting
1/2 C cocoa (or more to desired taste)
Beat until well combined.
Fill decorating bags with each frosting.  Put both bags into one large bag and add desired tip.  Pipe onto cupcakes.

See how mine turned out....

*Note:  The double piping technique worked for me on exactly three cupcakes before the icing exploded out of the bag.  Awesome right?

And, when I say explode, I mean EXPLODE!
All the frosting exited the bag! I had just enough left in the bags to make one circle of frosting, in one flavor, on top of each cupcake.

I decided to just ice the rest with the peanut butter chocolate frosting and they turned out fabulous!

So, what do you think?  Please leave me a comment below with your thoughts.

linking up here:  This Chick Cooks, Funky Junk Interiors, Serenity Now, Finding Fabulous, Whipper Berry, Craft Junkie Too, Making the World Cuter, Craft O Maniac, Keeping it Simple, Polish the Stars, Sumo's Sweet,

Dinner: French Bread Pizza

For dinner this week we had French Bread Pizza!

I was inspired by THIS post by the wonderful gals at
How Does She.

The How Does She team posted their recipe on Monday and on Wednesday the MoMomma Family was enjoying this fab dinner!

Let me just tell you HOW easy this was to make!
And so incredibly yummy!

Ok... Here's the recipe according to MoMomma

1. Preheat your oven to 400
2. Cut one French Bread loaf in half both width wise and length wise.  You will end up with four equal sized pieces
3. I lightly brushed each piece with butter and put them into the oven until light golden brown. This took about 8 minutes.
4. Remove from oven and apply your favorite toppings.  I used canned pizza sauce and applied lightly so the bread didn't get soggy.  We then topped with mozzarella cheese and our favorite toppings: (KidMo- Turkey Pepperoni & Cheese, MoMomma- Turkey Pepperoni and Canadian Bacon, MoDaddy- Canadian Bacon and Mushrooms)
5. Top with a little more grated cheese
6. 6 Bake in oven for about 10 minutes or until cheese is melted

Everyone had their favorite toppings and it was delicious!

Feedback: 10 out of 10!

Total Cost: $8.50
French Bread $1.50
Turkey Pepperoni $2.00
Cheese $1.50
Canadian Bacon $2.00
Sauce $1.50
 ( LOTS of extra ingredients for future recipes this week
- average cost likely about $2.50 total! NICE! )

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WhipperBerry,
Tidy Mom
Funky Junk 
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