This past pizza Friday I wasn’t even looking to find a new recipe, I just wanted to do a basic pepperoni pizza that was quick and low effort. 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 titled it mozzarella and pepperoni pizza.  The layering of the pizza also makes a huge difference with the mozzarella below the ingredients and the white cheddar sprinkled on top. I was so impressed I had to share this recipe.

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 a sliced log mozzarella that provided a creamy, milky flavor to balance out the sauce and pepperoni.  The white cheddar cheese provided a subtle tangy flavor to the pizza.