Mozzarella, White Cheddar and Pepperoni Pizza

This past Friday I wasn’t even looking to create a new recipe for pizza; however, it happened by happy accident.  I enjoy pepperoni pizza but wanted something more exciting than just pepperoni and mozzarella cheese.  This mozzarella, white cheddar and pepperoni pizza creates that wow factor to what would be just an ordinary pepperoni pizza.  To my surprise I ended up developing a pepperoni pizza that really brought me back to my travels in Italy. While I never ate a pepperoni pizza in Italy, we always would order the Margherita pizza. The combination of the pizza sauce with the gooey mozzarella cheese that comes from using the sliced log, brought back the Italian Margherita pizza flavor and enjoyment. The key was the sliced mozzarella cheese that ended up creating soft and milky pools of milky goodness throughout the pizza. The flavor that the mozzarella adds to this pizza is the reason I used mozzarella as the first ingredient in the recipe.  The layering of the ingredients in this mozzarella and pepperoni pizza also makes a huge difference.  The mozzarella I placed below the ingredients and the white cheddar sprinkled on top.

Pizza Crust: 

I used my own food processor pizza crust recipe.  My recipe uses a combination of wheat and 00 flour.  I developed this recipe to try to recreate the pizzas I had tasted in Italy.  This recipe makes for a tender and silky pizza crust.  You can also use a premade crust or your own favorite recipe.  This recipe uses 1/3 of the dough recipe.

Cheese:

In bringing this pizza to life I know the cheese is the key.  I used mozzarella that provided a creamy, milky flavor to balance out the sauce and pepperoni.  The white cheddar cheese provides a subtle tangy flavor to the pizza.