Muffin pan mini pizza

 

Makes 16 

 

Pizza dough*(recipe below) – or store bought

Mozzarella cheese, grated

Cheddar / Gouda cheese, grated

Salami slices, cut smaller

Sliced olives

Ketchup mixed with crushed garlic and chilies

Muffin pans

Olive oil

Preheat oven to 200 oC.  Cut your pizza dough into 16 pieces.  Pour few drops of olive oil in muffin pan’s holes.  Plop in a pizza dough, with your fingers stretch it carefully out onto the bottom and sides. 

Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese, add salami and olives, few drops of the Ketchup, top with Cheddar cheese.  Bake for 12 minutes.  Let stand in pan for 5 minutes.

Recipe and photo:  Alma Pretorius

PIZZA DOUGH

1 and 1/3 cup self raising flour

1/2 cup milk

2 tablespoons olive oil

Salt

In food processor with dough hook, mix together till it forms a ball.  Remove and keep in closed plastic container at room temperature for a few hours.

 

Cacao and Olive Pesto Cookies

Olive Pesto                  

Makes 250 ml

 

1 cup seedless black olives

1/2 cup peanuts (or other)

1/4 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup grated Cheddar cheese

Pinch salt

Blend.  Spoon into jar, cover with oil.  Refrigerate up to 5 days or freeze.   Recipe and photo:  Alma Pretorius

OLIVE PESTO COOKIES 

1 cup self-rising flour

1 large egg

2 tablespoons cacao powder

1/2 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1/2 cup olive pesto

8 tablespoons vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 170 oC.  Spray baking sheet.  Mix together the cacao, sugar, egg, olive pesto, essence and oil.  Add the flour and form 8 big balls and place on baking sheet with a distance from each other.  Bake for 12 minutes.

Recipe and photo:  Alma Pretorius