I'm addicted to making fathead dough!

Roxanne said:

I may have to start buying mozzarella, ground almonds and cream cheese in bulk!

Just tried the sausage rolls from the Ditch the Carbs website, quite happy with how they turned out...

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They look fantastic. Will give them a try when I’m back on my feet!

They do look good.

Do they taste as wonderful as they look???? I will have to try this!

Having struggled to get the consistency right the first time I tried, I have to say I'm not remotely addicted to making it.

Eating it, however...

I'm sure I will be addicted to making it once I've mastered it! This dough has so much potential. I wonder what would happen if you added suet to the mix...

I make these (I omit the oat fibre and use coconut flour) http://mytableofthree.com/sausage-cream-cheese-pinwheels
I use Aldi Cumberland sausages. I love them.

Roxanne said:

Very easy to make too.

I think the great thing about the dough is that it's impossible to overeat as it's so filling. I used to be able to polish off a whole pizza but can only manage one or two small slices of this.

Wish I could get my husband on board, he says it tastes like cake

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My hubby prefers it to ‘real’ pizza now!

How many carbs per roll or for a medium size pizza?

Roxanne said:

Around 5g, obviously depends what is in the sausages. The ones I used were 97% meat and only 1.5g per 2 sausages. Off the top of my head I think a slice of pizza is around 4g, again depends what toppings you use.

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Thank you

I use the fathead dough for crackers for my cheese. Delicious

Look really good

Yum they look so good. The family love sausage rolls and my downfall is the pastry so I will definitely be making these.

I'm making the fathead pizza tonight. Does anyone know if it will freeze well - or rather be ok again once defrosted?

I have frozen it before and it still tasted ok. I froze it in individual freezer bags so I could just grab the amount of slices that I wanted.

Made the dough yesterday for the first time - er, somewhat overcooked - probably made the pastry too thin - and not remotely round! But broken in bits it's ok for dips and as a sort of cheese cracker, like @slinkimalinki says. Have never liked 'normal' sausage rolls but those look yummy, @Roxanne. Opens up the possibility of real pies.....

Well I did have some reservations about this once I started making it. Once you add the egg the whole thing is very wet and sticky to work with. Once you mix the egg in a bit then you will need to get kneading with your hand. However this is only for a very short time and it dough'd up really well.

I think if it was going to be frozen, it may be better to do so just as a pizza base and then add the toppings once you take it out to use - so cook the base as per the first part of the recipe then may freeze it once cool enough?

A couple of observations from my first effort last night - make sure you put the toppings right to the edge. If you don't - and you have made the base thin, the edges will crisp and even burn before the toppings are hot and sizzly.

Also, if you are using a fan oven, as I was - and I preheated it - the pizza and base will take less time than the recipe says so may be worth knocking off a few mins and checking the base is not getting over done.

I used frozen garlic in my dough mix (you can buy it ready to sprinkle in many supermarkets) and it gives a lovely favour. For my toppings I used the rest of the mozzarella over the tomato puree, pepperoni, a few stray olives, and finished with a bit of smoked cheese.

OH was most impressed with the final result - which now means he eats more healthily too.