Baking Partners Challenge : New York Style Pizza...

Its the 15th of the month and hence time to reveal this months Baking Partner's Bake !! 

and this month we baked........

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taDaaaa...

Yes ...we baked this month 

      New York Style Pizza......

a thin crust pizza with the signature pizza sauce 

with toppings of our choice.

The recipes at hand were ....

• New York Style Pizza Crust from Feeling Foodish and New York Style Pizza Sauce from Seroius Eats as suggested by Pam of Living Rancho Deluxe
• New York Style Pizza from Serious Eats  as suggested by Archana of  Tangy Minds 
• New York Style Pizza from Pizza Making as suggested by Priya of Ennveetu Kitchen .

To say the truth though I was excited to make pizza,  I did not feel very challenged when the recipes were suggested. after all pizza is a weekly affair. so what could be so challenging about baking it.  neither the dough recipe nor the sauce recipe seemed challenging enough till i saw this video in Feeling Foodish...

and my reaction was.. oho.. so that is the challenge !! i played and replayed the video several times and tried my best to stretch the pizza dough like the chef. and i think i almost got it right the second time. though the pizza tasted great there are a few issues with my topping that i still need to work on. for starters i think i should stop using preshredded cheese because for whatever reason they tend to brown before the pizza crust is completely done... also i need to control myself when spreading the pizza sauce. somehow every time, i tend to get a little too generous while spreading the sauce on the crust and as a result my slices tend to be a little limp towards the center..

anyway i guess it'll take me a few more pizzas to make that ultimate thin crust pizza at home. however since the challenge things are definitely  looking up and i am hopeful that the next one might be the one !  Many thanks to Pam, Archana and Priya for the challenge and Swathi for initially such a lovely group !