Happy #Birthday to My Sweet Boy! #TeenagerNow

Happy #Birthday to My Sweet Boy! #TeenagerNow

It was a nice day for our son today, it was his 13th birthday and OMG he’s finally a teenager! So I made him an ice cream cake and homemade from scratch pizza. 

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Pizza Crust

Ingredients:

• 2.5 c flour
• 1 c water (warm)
• 1 tbsp yeast
• 3 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp sugar

Directions:

1. Start by putting water, sugar, salt and yeast in a mixing bowl, let foam up and activate.  
2. Place dough hook on mixer and add the oil and mix with dough hook.
3. Add 2 cups of flour and let mix till it’s completely combined.
4. Slowly add the remaining flour until it’s all been added.  
5. Let mixer knead the dough for about 5 minutes or so, dough will be a little sticky.
6. Oil a bowl and scrape the dough into that oiled bowl and put a little oil on top of dough, cover with clingwrap.  
7. Let rise in an OFF oven with just the oven light on, until it doubles in size. 
8. In the last few minutes of the dough rising, prep a large cookie sheet with nonstick foil or just oil if your pan is good without the foil.  
9. Place the dough on the pan and use your fingers to move it around and stretch it out to fit your pan as evenly as possible. 
10. Place back into the OFF oven with only the light on. Then let rise about 30 more minutes.
11. Preheat oven and top with whatever you like. I used sauce, cheese, pepperoni, onions, mushrooms and thai peppers
12. Bake for 15 minutes at 500 degrees! 

For dessert I made a delicious Birthday cake that wasn’t so decorated, but more so delicious! 🙂 I made a single cake from a box, will not do that again though. Next time I’ll make my homemade recipe.  Got a couple cans of caramel pecan icing and a half gallon of samoa ice cream. I made and cut the cake in half to make a double layer.  I also shaved the top to make the cake flat.  I put some icing on the cake then layered ice cream.  Topped with other cake, then put in freezer for a while. Then I frosted the rest and put back in freezer till serving time! 

Happy Birthday Leo! 🙂 Love you sweet boy, you’re growing up too fast.