If you follow me on, well, any platform at all - you'll know that I LOVE pizza. I could live on the stuff, in fact.
So any event involving my favourite culinary pleasure is an unwavering, solid 'yes' from me.
Pizza Express invited me down to their newly renovated Manchester Oxford Road restaurant to try my hand at creating my own masterpiece with one of the chain's Pizza Making Parties*. I love cooking and learning new skills so this sounded like a great way to spend an evening!
To start, we were offered a selection of drinks including Peroni and prosecco to loosen us up for the pizza making! It was nice to chat to our fantastic hosts and the other guests over drinks and Pizza Express' legendary Dough Balls!
We were then armed with aprons and Pizza Express paper chef's hats while the table was floured, ready for the dough.
We were each given a perfectly proportioned piece of dough, ready for manipulation - after a little lesson in kneading and tossing from one of the branch's trained pizza chefs.
Dough rolled and rounded (I was surprisingly pretty good at it!), we transferred our bases into perfectly sized pizza trays and added a generous smear of pizza sauce.
An array of fresh toppings were brought out (including red onion, artichoke and chunks of juicy chicken) and while some of the guests created some fantastically weird and wonderful combinations, I'm classic when it comes to pizza and simply opted for hot pepperoni and some fresh red chilli.
Sprinkled with a generous amount of cubed mozzarella, all that was left to do was wait for our creations to come out of the pizza over, ready to eat!
The big reveal was better than we could've expected! Some of the pizzas, it has to be said, went into the oven looking a little questionable but the cooking process seemed to resolve all sins and everyone's came out looking seriously appetising!
My pizza was absolutely delicious - perhaps more so because I'd made it myself!
After we'd scoffed our creations, the team hosted a little award ceremony with some fun prizes. Naturally, I was given the 'biggest tosser' prize!
I'd definitely recommend one of Pizza Express' Pizza Making Parties for a special occasion like a birthday or hen party as something everyone can enjoy.
Have you ever tried your hand at pizza making?
OMgosh, I didn't even know this was a thing!? This sounds like so much fun and definitely something I'd do with my friends!
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Pizza Express had invited me to a similar event in Oman (Middle East). This is actually pretty fun. Congrats on winning the best tosser! :)
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