🍕 English Muffin Pizzas

English Muffin Pizza for kids: the whole recipe

Let's make little pizzas that you top all by yourself! This easy recipe is for ages 5 to 11 (grades K–5th), takes about 20 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along, and every hot or sharp step is marked for a grown-up.

Ingredients

• 2 English muffins
• 4 tablespoons pizza sauce
• ½ cup grated mozzarella

Tools

A baking tray, Measuring spoons, A big spoon, Measuring cups, The oven (grown-up), Oven mitts, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Grown-up step: A grown-up turns the oven on to 400°F so it gets nice and hot.
3. Pull 2 English muffins apart into halves and lay them on a tray.
4. Spread 4 tablespoons of pizza sauce over the halves with the back of a spoon.
5. Sprinkle ½ cup of grated mozzarella on top, right out to the edges.
6. Grown-up step: A grown-up puts the tray in the oven, wearing oven mitts.
7. Watch through the window as the cheese melts and bubbles, about 8 minutes.
8. Grown-up step: A grown-up takes the tray out with mitts on: let it cool for 5 minutes.
9. Pizza time! Blow on it first, then take a big bite.

Safety notes

• Hot! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains milk, wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.

Kitchen science

Heat melts cheese: the fat inside goes soft, and the shreds turn into one gooey, stretchy blanket.

Make it your own

• Add a few slices of pepperoni or olives before the cheese.
• Make a face on each pizza with pepper and tomato bits.
• Shake a pinch of dried oregano on top, like a pizza shop.

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