This dough has no specific purpose other than to be a dessert dough. Since I didn't intend it to be used as a pizza dough (my pizza dough never contains anything but plant byproducts), I didn't think it was worth creating a new thread for it, but at the same time someone might want to use it for their dessert pizza. It bears some similarity to my Dutch Apple Pizza dough with the use of apple cider vinegar and cinnamon, but the resemblance is a result of a comprehensive objective. I always use apple cider vinegar and cinnamon in dough anytime I want to mask part of the yeastiness due to the chemical interaction of these two ingredients with yeast. If I hadn't designated this to be a sweet dough, I would use plain distilled vinegar and half the cinnamon.
144 g bread flour
144 g all-purpose flour
84 g water
84 g 2% evaporated milk
10 g apple cider vinegar
28 g unsalted butter
7 g dark brown sugar
4 g kosher salt
2 g active dry yeast
0.5 t cinnamon
You can use 168g of regular 2% milk in place of the evaporated milk and water, but I separate the two so that I'm not heating the milk unnecessarily. Bloom the yeast in 84g of 110 F water. Wait until the temperature reaches 100 F and add cider vinegar, condensed milk, melted butter, brown sugar, salt, and cinnamon. Stir and add flour. Stir and knead. That's the dough in its most generic form. To add a pizza theme to the use of this dough, try the following:
Pizza Slice Cinnamon Rolls
Roll out the dough into a rectangular shape with a thickness of 0.25". Coat the dough with a generous amount of melted butter. Sprinkle a mix of 3 parts light brown sugar and 1 part cinnamon over the top. Use your preferential judgment as to how much. Pat down sugar to make sure it sticks well to the dough. Use a pizza cutting wheel to cut 1" strips. Roll the strips into pinwheel shapes. Cup your hands around each pinwheel to mold them into pizza slice shapes as illustrated in the attached image. Place each on a greased pan and bake at 350 F for about 15 minutes or until golden brown. Add cream cheese (ah yes, a cheese officially makes it a pizza) frosting as illustrated so that there is the illusion of an outer crust. What I didn't spend the time illustrating is certainly optional: take cinnamon imperials (red hots) and smash them flat to add the effect of pepperoni on top of the frosting.
- red.november
EDIT: One could use sweetened condensed milk if one does not have evaporated milk on hand. Use 26g condensed milk, 55g extra water, and leave out the brown sugar.
EDIT 2: Broke away from the desert herd, and joined the dessert pack.
