Entertaining Kids on Lockdown: Terrible Toadstool Pizzas!

Lockdown. Its dull. More so if you are a kid trapped in a house with parents who are constantly whining about not being able to get as drunk as they want as often as they want because of responsibilities.

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And so we must find ways of entertaining our little cherubs.

I took it upon myself to cook with my daughter today.

We made fearsome orange eyes

She loved these but then the big hitter came.

We all know kids love pizza and so we embarked upon making some fun pizza. How do you make pizza even more fun that it is? Make it terrible!

So, here we are - Terrible Toadstool Pizzas. A magic little recipe from the Gruffalo's Cookbook. It's not mine but if you are bored and don't own it then please, join in with some lockdown cookery.

Here we go!

You will need

For the pizza base
200 grams of plain flour
1 tablespoon of olive oil
120 mls warm water
1 teaspoon of oregano
2 teaspoons of baking powder
A pinch of salt

For the tomato sauce
2 tablespoons of tomato paste
2 tablespoons of hot water

To make

Get your oven on at 200 degrees.

Throw the ingredients for the pizza base together into a dough. Because this recipe doesn't use yeast there is no need to knead or rest it.

So you can get straight to rolling it out into shapes. Roll it flat

Then find a circle cutter of some description. I just use whatever is to hand. Usually an upturned glass.

Then the fun bit. Get your kid to join in, careful with the knife though!

Cut out a stalk on each disc like so

Place them all on a baking tray

Now mix your tomato paste and water to make a tomato sauce and spread this with the back of a spoon over the tops of the toadstools

Add little balls of mozzarella to each one for the spots

Can you see the toadstool'ness!!!

Now fling them in the oven for twelve minutes.

And take them out when done

Serve them up as part of your kids feast!!!

And make sure to have a nibble of some of the tasty blighters yourself!!!

I guess lockdown ain't all bad!!! :0)