Hi Moms: So my baby turned 9 today and we wants chocolate pizza instead of a cake. We watch it being made on the Food Network one night and he was hooked. Here is the thing. He doesn't like Nutella and that is what the recipe called for. DO any of you have ideas about what might be a good replacement for Nutellla? I am not a baker, clearly, so even this choice is an ordeal ;-)
Just finished diner and the chocolate pizza was great. Store bought dough with a bit of melted butter. Cooked for about 8 minutes at 450. The spponed mini chocolate chips on top and poppped back in the oven. One minute later, took out, smoothed the melted chocolate around and added topping for each person. (Did mini pizzas for each person). Toppings included marshmallows, white choc. chips, mini peanut butter cups, dark choc. covered cranberries. Back in for one minute. Served with a bit of vanilla ice cream with raspberries and pineapple on the side. Was wonderful. Thanks to all for the suggestions. For a non baking mom this was a great family-fun alternative to baking a cake and the birthday boy loved it.
Honestly, I think if you bake your pizza, take it out and immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips (whatever he likes...I like semi-sweet or dark) and wait five minutes, it will spread with a consistency of Nutella. I use this method on toffee bars.
Does it have to be smooth and not set up? In a fudge recipe I have, it calls for chocolate chips melted with sweetened condensed milk. To make the fudge set up, it takes 3 cups of chips and one can of sc milk. Maybe you can use less chips (say 1 cup) and the can of sc milk. It should give you that consistency. And yes, please post this recipe. Never heard of it!
put chocolate chips on it, semi sweet chunks would do or get a bar of GOOD chocolate and cut it up and after you take it out put the chocolate on it
YUM!!! My daugher LOVES Nutella but I don't buy it for her. =( She would probably love this recipe...can you post it in your SWH? I'm sorry, I'm not a good cook or baker so I don't have any suggestions unless peanut butter would work. I hope you find something that works for you! Good luck!
I'm not sure what recipe you are referring to, but we just made a dessert pizza for my friend's birthday and it was delicious.
First we rolled out the dough and placed bits of peanut butter all over the pizza (it melts down into a sauce when you bake it so it doesn't need to be a thick layer). Then we topped it with dark chocolate bits and mini marshmallows. The final touch was a sprinkling of powdered sugar. We baked the pizza until the crust was just starting the brown (you don't need to cook it as long a typical pizza because it is really nice when the crust is a little softer). The peanut butter melts into the chocolate and marshmallows get nice and toasted on top.
It sounds like a sugary nightmare, but the combination of the plain pizza dough and the melted toasted toppings was really delicious.
Maybe a simple ganache recipe? It spreads easily then hardens up a bit. Super easy to make - you just heat cream and throw chocolate in. Amount depends on consistency you want. You can look up many recipes online! You could also just make a small batch of whatever chocolate frosting you like and spread that.
I like the "add it later" idea, but use shredded chocolate, so it melts faster (smaller than chocolate chips). Just buy a hung and use a cheese shredder.
