Chicken Alfredo Calzones

The other day I was at Ross which is one of my absolute favorite stores. I decided to browse through the cooking supplies to see if I could find some cake pans for this new cake I have been wanting to bake.  I didn't find the right pans, but I did find this set of dough presses.  Looking at the examples on the box, I started day dreaming about all the possibilities that could arise from having these presses to help form the perfect shape. I quickly bought them and headed home to start experimenting.

I brought out the trusty Betty Crocker Cook book and started skimming the pages.  That's when I landed on the pizza dough recipe that I watched my mom make countless times as a child and an idea was formed: Calzones.  Now I enjoy the basic types of pizza such as pepperoni and sausage as much as the next person, but i usually prefer to make a more sophisticated pizza so I chose to make my favorite type of pizza into a calzone and the chicken alfredo calzones were invented.

When these came out of the oven, steaming and golden brown, I could almost see my husband's mouth begin to water.  He quickly scarfed down a couple before he decided he was too full to move.  And of course he had to try the leftovers later and these are just as good cold as they are hot. 

Chicken Alfredo Calzones

Ingredients

Dough
1 package active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt

Filling
One cooked chicken breast cut into small pieces
1/4 cut chopped onion
1/2 - 1 cup alfredo sauce
1 cup cheese

Directions
1. Dissolve yeast in warm water in medium bowl
2. stir in remaining ingredients.  you may have to kneed the dough a bit to work them all together.  let rest five minutes
3. form into six equal circles of dough and fill with other ingredients.
4. moisten edges of circles.  Fold over and press together using a dough press or your hands.
4. brush with melted butter and bake at 425 for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.