Patent ID: 7823489

Claim:
A method of making a pizza pie comprising: arranging a pizza crust dough within a pizza pan to configure a main region of the pizza crust dough onto a base portion of the pizza pan and an outer region of the pizza crust dough against an outer wall portion of the pizza pan; placing a cutting guide onto the pizza crust dough to position a support surface of the cutting guide adjacent the outer region of the pizza crust dough at a position elevated vertically along the outer wall portion of the pizza pan; locating a tool in a support position upon the support surface of the cutting guide and pressing a notched cutting disc of the tool into the outer region of the pizza crust dough while maintaining the tool in the support position; moving the tool along the support surface of the cutting guide to rollingly translate the cutting disc about substantially the entire periphery of the pizza crust dough while continuing to press the notched cutting disc into the pizza crust dough, thereby forming a plurality of slits in the outer region of the pizza crust dough; arranging an inner cheese portion at a junction of the main region and the outer region of the pizza crust dough adjacent a location of the plurality of slits in the outer region of the pizza crust dough; and manipulating the outer region of the pizza crust dough to embed the inner cheese portion within the outer region and to cause each slit to be reshaped as a hole and positioned generally over the inner cheese portion at the upper surface of the outer region.