Scone based pizza

For the final session of this block of cooking club the children invited along an adult so they could show off the skills they had been learning in the previous sessions. In session 3 we had made scones and that was going to come in handy for this session because the children were going to make a pizza with a scone base. In addition, they got a chance to show off their knife skills by cutting up some toppings and making carrot and cucumber sticks. And to finish, we retrieved the smoothie lollies from the freezer.

Our celebrity chef this week was Tiffany and here she shows us how to make an easy, inexpensive pizza from scratch.

Scone-based Pizza

(per person)

100g self-raising flour

25g butter

60ml milk

2 tablespoons passata

A pinch of mixed dried herbs

50g strong Cheddar cheese

A selection of topping ingredients such as ham, mushroom, pineapple, red pepper, sweetcorn.

1. Preheat oven to 200°C (gas mark 7) and grease a baking tray.

2. Sieve the flour into a bowl.

3. Weigh out the butter and add it to the flour.

4. Using clean fingertips, rub the butter into the flour until it resembles breadcrumbs.

5. Gradually add the milk to make a soft dough.

6. Sprinkle the rolling pin and a suitable board with a little flour then roll out the dough until it is less than 1 cm thick.

7. Spread the passata onto the base with a spoon.

8. Sprinkle on the herbs.

9. Grate the cheese and add this to the pizza.

10. Now add a selection of suitable toppings.

11. Carefully slide the pizza from the board onto the baking tray then bake for 20 minutes until the cheese is bubbling.

The children had fun deciding what toppings to put on their pizzas and a couple of the boys decided to continue with our football theme and decorated their pizzas to look like the England flag. Whilst the pizzas were in the oven the children chopped carrots and cucumber into sticks and helped tidy away.

And then it was time to eat. Everyone loved their pizzas and even had enough to let their adults have a taste and to take some home with them.

After that, there was just enough time to have a smoothie lolly each before home. These tasted just as nice frozen as they had tasted fresh as drinks last week.

So next time you fancy a pizza and don't have one in your freezer, give this recipe a go. It dead easy and tastes great!