1) Preheat your oven to 180 degrees.
2) In a bowl, cream together 125g of butter, 100g of castor sugar and 100g of light brown muscovado sugar. You can do this by hand, or with an electric mixer.
3) Crack 1 egg into the bowl and mix well.
4) Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence or extract and stir it in.
5) Sift 150g of plain flour into the bowl, then fold it in. Don't be too vigorous or you will over beat the mixture and it won't rise.
7) Transfer the mixture to a circular tin, and bake for 20 minutes until lovely and golden. It should look quite done on the outside, but don't worry, it will be lovely and gooey inside!
8) Once the cookie dough has cooled slightly, you can begin to decorate it. I began by putting a ring of nutella around the edge to imitate the tomato sauce. This adds a nice bit of flavour without the sickliness that covering the entire cookie would give. (excuse the hole in mine, I managed to stick my oven glove in it whilst taking it out the oven haha)
10) Next, cover your cookie dough with the buttercream or frosting. You want to leave a little bit of nutella showing around the edges to give the most realistic finish.
11) Finally, add your chosen decorations to your pizza. I chose to use silver balls and some micro eggs to decorate mine. Micro eggs are basically a smaller version of mini eggs that are a great size for baking. I bought mine from Tesco.
And there we have it; your very own cookie dough pizza! You can eat this as soon as you've finished if you still want it to be slightly warm, but my family actually think it tastes better the day after baking when all the flavours are more distinct.
I really hope you enjoyed reading, and are inspired to make your own! Be sure to tag me in photos on Instagram of your own creations, and leave me a comment below if you'd like to see more recipes.
emma x
