Deep Dish Pizza Dough

[seemore]

I LOVE MY KITCHENAID MIXER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like a little kid!  I have never been able to see a pizza crust that I made actually RISE to twice it's size!!!!!
We followed one of the recipes for Chicago-style deep dish pizza crust on that site that Deb and several others told us about.
I am actually looking forward to this pizza tomorrow.
We smoked some pepperoni and are making some more mozarella cheese for this pizza tomorrow, too.
Pictures for this will follow..........

[FLBentRider]

Congrats on the mixer.

Looking forward to the pizza pics.

[pensrock]

Congrats on the mixer. The first time I did pizza dough I had to do it by hand. It was not really to bad to do it that way but the next time I made it I borrowed a KA mixer from my sister. Man it was easy to do and I think the glutens formed much better and the crusts came out great.

[Gizmo]

Seemore,
Did you use a spiral dough hook?

[deb415611]

Very cool Seemores!

You are going to love the mixer.  I use mine at least once a week.

I have Chicago crust rising in the fridge too.

[seemore]

I can't thank all of you enough for telling us about the KitchenAid and how wonderful it is!  In all of my 50 years, I have NEVER had a pizza crust do this in a pan prior to baking:  

I was just amazed that I could stretch this dough up the sides of this deep dish pan, and there were NO HOLES!   :o
It was easy to assemble once the dough was in place:

And when we took it out of the oven, all I could say was WOW!  

Thanks again for the advice and the vote of confidence!  I am finally PROUD to post a picture of a pizza that I made!
Mrs

[deb415611]

Wow Mrs. 

That is an awesome looking pizza!!!!!!

Deb

[pensrock]

great lookin pie Mrs.

[seemore]

Sorry, Gizmo, I forgot to respond to you in all my excitement over a real pizza crust that I made.
Yes it is the spiral dough hook.  It did in five minutes what I could never, ever do in 15 or 20............. :-[

[Smoking Duck]

Way to go, June.  The beauty of it all is that now when you ask Scott to buy something else, remind him how long it took to get a Kitchen-Aid and what you did the first time out with it!

That pizza pie is a thing of beauty!

[La Quinta]

That pizza is making me seriously hungry!!! Well done June.. the KitchenAid is a big friend in the kichen...we make a lot of bread and it's brilliant for that!! And cakes, cookies....whip cream...(I could go on...but I won't)!

Gotta go make pizza dough now!!!  ;D  :D

[seemore]

Thanks, LQ and SD!
I do indeed plan to make some breads as well as cinnamon rolls.  There is also a jalapeno cheesecake that Scott really likes that I have not made since our old mixer went to appliance heaven that I need to make again.
SD, do you think if I ask for a Jaguar - not the animal - I could coax Seemore into it?    NOT!  :):):):):)

[La Quinta]

I'd start with a Big Easy...a diamond.... or a Mercedes and work your way up...  ;D Start small...make more pizza...then go bigger!!! He won't even know what hit him!!!  :D  :D  :D  :D

[Gizmo]

Thanks, LQ and SD!
I do indeed plan to make some breads as well as cinnamon rolls.  There is also a jalapeno cheesecake that Scott really likes that I have not made since our old mixer went to appliance heaven that I need to make again.
SD, do you think if I ask for a Jaguar - not the animal - I could coax Seemore into it?    NOT!  :):):):):)

I'd like to here about your jalapeno cheesecake.  I do a habanero lime cheese cake but what I have read on cheese cake, you don't want to over mix the creaming of the cheese or your cheese cake will crack.  Time for a new thread I guess.

[seemore]

I'll post the cheescake recipe tomorrow, under a new topic. 
I think you will like it, Giz.  If you would not mind, could you give us your recipe for the habanero lime cheesecake?
Thanks!