The Godfather

Surprisingly enough, I have many memories associated with Godfather's Pizza.  First of all, when I was growing up it became some sort of a family tradition to pick up pizza after Saturday evening mass.  A lot of times we picked Godfather's.  Secondly, there were a couple of times that my mom and I decided that it would be a good idea to order pizza in the middle of a snowstorm.  After we called in our order, we would bundle up and get into the family van to begin the ten mile drive to Godfather's.  Whenever this happened, we would usually walk into the building to see five or six of the workers sitting in booths without anything to do as most people wouldn't order pizza during blizzards.  Whatever.  We survived the storm AND enjoyed the pizza.  In the end, I think we won.

Well, last night I was craving their delicious desert streusel pizza.  I looked up the prices online and found out that I could get a small for $3.99.  How big is their small?  I had no idea and I didn't feel like calling so I decided to make one!

I began with a fifty cent wal-mart brand pizza crust and found a recipe for the streusel at this website.

I made some small changes (my mother would be so proud), so here is my version:

Crust:
3 tablespoons butter (you could use less, too)
Cinnamon

Streusel Topping:
1 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup cubed butter

Icing:
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla

Direction:
Preheat the oven to 490 degrees.  Put the pizza dough in a 8 inch circle pan, poke with a fork to prevent bubbles, and bake for 2 minutes.  Remove it from the oven and pour the melted butter over the entire crust and generously sprinkle it with cinnamon.  Put 1 and 3/4 cups of the stre
Prepare the streusel by combining the dry ingredients and using a pastry cutter to mix the butter into the flour and sugar mixture.  It will still look like flour, but don't worry.  This recipe makes a little more than 4 cups of streusel, but only use between 1 1/2 cups to 2 cups to fill the crust.

Bake the dessert for 7-9 minutes.  After 5 minutes, I covered it with foil so the crust wouldn't burn. 

While it is baking, make the icing by mixing the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla. 

Here is the finished product!! Yum, yum!  (If you are kinder than me, you might even offer it to your roommates...)