👧 This Saturday, Bring a Kid to the Counter

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We've got three pizzas going this weekend in the Bake-Along, and one of them is just for the little ones.

The Kids Can Bake Personal Pan Pizza is for any kid in your life. Sons, daughters, grandkids, nieces, nephews. The neighbor's kid you've been meaning to bake with. Pull them up to the counter Saturday and hand them their own dough ball. One dough ball, one little baker. That's the whole idea.

This isn't pretend baking. It's real dough, real yeast, real ingredients, scaled down so it fits in little hands at 62 percent hydration. They get to measure. Wake up the yeast. Knead it. Watch it rise. Choose their own toppings. Shape it however they want, even if "however they want" is a dinosaur track.

A few lines to keep in your back pocket while you bake:

Warm bath water, not dragon breath hot. If the dough shrinks back, it's not being stubborn, it's asking for a nap. There's no wrong shape. Kids build the pizza, grownups handle the heat. Melted cheese is lava.

They think they're just making lunch. You and I know they're learning measuring, yeast, gluten, patience, and how to make decisions. That's a whole curriculum hidden inside one personal pan pizza.

Bake it together Saturday, then come back and post photos in the thread. Especially the weird-shaped ones. Those are my favorite.

🍕 Kids Can Bake Personal Pan Pizza recipe: https://skoo.ly/kids-pan-pizza

Perfection is not required. Progress is.

~ Henry ⭐🔥

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