O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, how beautiful are thy cheese pulls! Flip in your festive cheer with these Christmassy, doughy balls of pleasure: our Christmas Tree Pizza Dough Balls are smothered in garlic-herb butter and served with pizza sauce for dipping. Wow your company with this tremendous easy and enjoyable recipe!
Components
Serves 6-8 as an appetizer
28.2oz (800g) Classic Pizza Dough
7oz (200g) Classic Pizza Sauce
8.8oz (250g) mozzarella cheese block, chopped into 1” cubes
5.3oz (150g) butter, melted
4 cloves garlic, crushed
3 tbsp parsley, finely chopped
3 tbsp rosemary, finely chopped
Gear
1 giant baking sheet (max. 13” x 9”/33 x 23cm)
3-inch cookie cutter (or tumbler)
1 rolling pin
Methodology
Put together the pizza dough forward of time. Our information to creating the proper Classic Pizza Dough covers every part it’s worthwhile to know. Notice that for this recipe, it’s not essential to ball up the pizza dough – merely comply with the recipe up till the majority proving stage, so you find yourself with one giant amount of proved dough able to roll out and switch into the dough balls.
Fireplace up your Ooni pizza oven. Intention for 480F˚ (250˚C) on the stone baking sheet inside. You may examine the temperature inside your Ooni pizza oven shortly and simply utilizing the Ooni Infrared Thermometer.
Take a tablespoon of the butter and unfold over the floor of your baking sheet.
Subsequent, frivolously flour your work floor. Utilizing a rolling pin, flatten the pizza dough out to about 2 inches thick. Take your cookie cutter and punch a circle from the dough. Place a cheese dice within the centre of the circle and pinch the perimeters of the dough collectively to seal. Roll the dough along with your palms (like forming a meatball) to type a easy ball. Repeat with every circle of dough. It is best to be capable to make round 21-25 balls. Make one smaller dough ball to make use of because the star on prime of the tree!
Place the dough balls on the baking sheet within the Christmas tree form, and drizzle a number of tablespoons of melted butter over the dough balls.
Place the baking sheet inside your Ooni pizza oven and bake the dough balls for 20-25 minutes, or till they’re hyped up and golden throughout. Make sure you rotate the baking sheet each couple of minutes to make sure it cooks evenly and doesn’t burn.
In a bowl, combine the garlic and herbs with the remainder of the melted butter.
Take away the baking sheet from the oven and drizzle the dough balls with the garlic-herb butter. Serve whereas scorching, with a bowl of heat pizza sauce for dipping the balls into!
