Pizza Cones
Preparation time: 20 minutes plus rising time (1-2 hours)
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Makes about 18 cones (depending on cone size and thickness)
For pizza dough
- 2 1/4 cups bread flour or all purpose flour, chilled
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon instant dried yeast
- 30ml/1 fl oz olive oil plus extra to grease bowl
- 3/4 cups ice water
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- Pastry cones
For filling
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese, grated
- 150g/5ozs. pepperoni cut into small pieces (I also cut out a round to close the filling off)
- Pizza sauce
- Fresh basil leaves
Step 1 - Mix the flour, salt and yeast into a bowl and add the olive oil, ice water and sugar and knead for 7 minutes or until elastic, using hands or a dough hook. Place in an oiled bowl in a warm place to rise for 1-2 hours. You can also put this in the fridge overnight for a slow rise.
Step 2 - Preheat oven to 200C/400F and line a baking tray with parchment. Flour a clean surface and think of the person that annoyed you the most this past year. Then punch down the dough and roll out about a quarter of the dough. Slice into triangles and take your pastry cones (you don't have to grease them) and fashion a cone out of the dough making sure to seal the bottom because you don't want cheese or sauce to drop out the bottom. Bake for 10 minutes.
Step 3 - Slide the pizza dough from the cone. Stuff the cone with some cheese and sauce and then fill with the pepperoni and more cheese and sauce. I put a round of pepperoni at the end as a stopper so that the cheese wouldn't leak out. Bake for 6-7 minutes until the filling is cooked through. Top with a basil leaf!