Bread machine recipes: Home made pizza

We had pizza for tea tonight and it was another success. I really love how easy it is to make pizza from scratch. I used the usual recipe but this time replaced 1/2 cup of white bread flour with wholemeal bread flour. It was delicious. I think next time I might go with a whole cup of wholemeal with 2 cups of white. We'll see.



The pizzas were topped with tomato puree, onion, mushroom, sweetcorn, pepperoni and smoked venison keilbasa sausage from a local european shop. I bought some grated mozarella and cheddar cheese with red pepper and jalapenos in especially for the pizzas and it was lovely (if a bit spicier than I was expecting!) we also added a little extra cheese as there wasn't wuite enough to go 'round. There was plenty of dough for two largeish pizzas. More than enough for two but neither of us had eaten properly today and we polished off the lot.

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Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes

I made these last night to take out with me tonight. There are several birthdays around this time so as I'm a bit skint I decided to take some cupcakes for everyone instead of buying individual presents. I used the same basic recipe as I did for the mocha cupcakes but modified them by replacing the coffee with pureed fresh raspberries and halving the recipe to make only 12 cakes. Again I substituted the sour cream with plain yogurt.


For the frosting I modified the Kahlua chocolate frosting but replaced the Kahlua with more pureed raspberries. I tried to half the recipe (as I was left with a lot of leftovers last time) but it came out a little soft and wasn't quite enough to cover all 12 cakes. It has become a little stiffer overnight and the cakes still look great.

The hearts were made from pre-coloured red fondant cut with a cookie cutter.

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Lemon Sugar Cookies.

I actually didn't get any pictures of these as they were kind of last minute. I was looking for a recipe for easter biscuits and this Lemon roll out Sugar Cookie recipe from Basically Baked struck me as kind-of perfect. I thought the lemon flavour would be perfect for Spring and they were sturdy enough to cut into shapes (I chose chicks).

They were actually very good. They were crisp and crumbly and the lemon was just prominent enough to enhance the flavour of the basic dough. I would definitely make these again (and take pictures next time!).

I teamed these with tradition easter nests made from Rice Krispies and dark chocolate and decortated with Cadbury Mini Eggs. I also bought a few Lindt chocolate bunnies and Cadbury Cream Eggs to create small easter gifts for my family. They all went down really well.

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