Daring Bakers Challenge - Pizza Dough

Ah, pizza dough a seemingly easy project, I've gotten pretty good at making challah so I didn't figure this would be an issue. Was I wrong, for a challenge I decided to use the stand mixer and dough hook attachment. This was seriously, the stickiest dough I have ever worked with, I added quite a bit of extra flour but it didn't get much better. I was interested in the cold rise as I have heard of using it with almost any bread dough to spread out the time dedicated to it. I have no idea what I did wrong (although in every bread recipie I make, I always use at least one extra cup of flour. Maye I should have gone with my instinct and added more flour.

After putting the dough together in a matter of about 20 minutes, I stuck two pieces in the fridge to try the following day. I didn't see much rising going on but it looked okay to me when I pulled it out to bring it to room temperature. The dough was still extremely sticky, I couldn't work with it at all. I think for the next go around I would use a lot more flour. I hadn't used my stone in a while so it was nice to bring that out and give it a whirl, it worked well and I might use the method again although not in the summer, 45 minutes at 500 degrees made my condo pretty warm.

Pizza went in with some difficulty, even the generous amount of cornmeal didn't help the stickiness and the transfer was not pretty, still the pizza cooked up and tasted ok, I can't say that there was much flavor in the dough. We shall see how the dough that's in the freezer works. If that works well, I might work on perfecting this recipe as it was pretty quick and tasty.

No pictures this month, I can't seem to find my camera right now. Looking forward to next month.