Pretzel Crust Pizza
My pretzel pizza features a buttery and salty crust topped with melty cheese and spicy pepperoni. We love how it tastes like a soft pretzel in pizza form!
Pretzel Pizza: The culinary mashup you need to try
Two of our favorite snacks to enjoy while watching sports in pizza and crack jack. We love chowing down on varieties like BBQ Chicken Pizza, margherita pizza, jalapeno popper pizza, and Buffalo Chicken. There is nothing like a hot and salty soft pretzel while watching the pirates lose baseball. I've combined two of our favorites into this delicious pretzel pizza recipe. We also love to make it on lazy Friday nights and for birthday parties. Feel free to add your favorite toppings, we also really enjoy cheddar cheese and bacon yum!
Why We Love It
Ingredient Notes and Shopping Tips
Measure Flour correctly
Avoid scooping your flour into your measuring cup, as you may use too much.
️Krystle's Tips️
- Be Patient: Give the yeast 5-10 minutes to activate. These few minutes will lead to a chewy airy crust.
- Warm Water: Dissolve yeast in warm water. It should be around 110 degrees and feel like warm bathwater. Too cold, and it won't activate, but too warm could kill the yeast.
- Kneading 101: Push the dough away from you, fold it over, and pull it back towards you. Keep your work surface and hands dusted with flour. It is done when it no longer sticks to you and looks smooth.
- Use a Pizza Stone: This gives you a super crispy crust without a pizza oven.
"Hot" Tip
I like to preheat my stone in the oven while it's heating up.
FAQs
The boiling water with baking soda is alkaline. This gives the pretzel its deep brown color and distinctive flavor.
The yeast needs something to "eat". Honey provides sugars that yeast can eat. This produces carbon dioxide, which helps the dough rise.
If yeast is active, it will look foamy and slightly bubbly after 5-10 minutes. If it doesn't activate, throw it away and start over, as your dough will not rise.
Yes, make up to one day in advance. Bring to room temperature before rolling it out.
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📖 Recipe
Pretzel Pizza
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Ingredients
- 1⅓ Cups Warm Water
- 1 Tablespoon Active Dry Yeast
- 2 Tablespoons Honey
- 3½ Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 Teaspoon Table Salt
- ⅓ Cup Baking Soda
- 1 Tablespoon Butter Melted
- Sea Salt
- 1 Cup Pizza Sauce I like Del Grosso Pappy Fred's
- 1 Cup Mozzarella Cheese
- Pepperoni Slices or any other desired toppings
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine warm water, yeast, and honey. Stir until combined. Allow the yeast to "do its thing" for ~5 minutes.
- Stir in salt, and add flour a little at a time until a dough begins to form. Knead for 5 minutes or until dough is smooth and no longer sticks to your fingers.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. In a large stock pot bring ~2 inches of water to a boil. Add baking soda, reduce to simmer.
- Divide dough into 3 equal portions. Roll out into 3 circles. Drop one at a time into the simmering water for 30-40 seconds.
- Grease a pizza pan and place dough on prepared pan. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with sea salt.
- Bake for 10 minutes. Pull out of oven and top with pizza sauce, cheese, and pepperoni. Bake for 10-15 more minutes until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
Notes
Krystle's Tips
- Be Patient: Give the yeast 5-10 minutes to activate. These few minutes will lead to a chewy, airy crust.
- Warm Water: Dissolve yeast in warm water. It should be around 110 degrees and feel like warm bathwater. Too cold, and it won't activate, but too warm could kill the yeast.
- Kneading 101: Push the dough away from you, fold it over, and the pull back towards. Keep your work surface and hands dusted with flour. It is done when it no longer sticks to you and looks smooth.
- Use a Pizza Stone: This gives you a super crispy crust without a pizza oven. I like to preheat my stone in the oven while it's heating up.
Nutrition
Pretzel crust is the BEST! So soft and thick and delicious, yum!
This turned out so good! I have never made a crust like this before and I loved it! Definitely will be making this again and again!
Pretzel Crust Pizza is a game-changer! The savory, chewy pretzel crust pairs perfectly with classic pizza toppings for a deliciously unique twist.
Your Pretzel Crust Pizza is a game-changer! The crust was perfectly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, just like a pretzel. It added such a fun twist to our pizza night. This is definitely a new family favorite.
Where has this been my whole life! This is fantastic!
This is the best thing ever. I love any kind of pretzel variation, and this buttery crust with the toppings was sooo good.
I don't usually remark to these recipes, but this one was fantastic!!!! I only had 00 flour but which I believe that actually made it crispier! Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.
Tried this tonight. Worked pretty well. My kids uniformly said it was good…which is high praise from 4 rather picky eaters.
I like making homemade pretzels, so I’m familiar with alkaline boiled dough, but never for something as large as an entire pizza crust.
I split the dough into fifths since I don’t like super thick crust on my pizza. I had difficulty extracting the crust from the boiling water in one piece…possibly because I had thin crust. If I use this recipe again (which I likely will), I will put the boiled crust on a cooling rack after boiling before baking so it dries off more. We had some soggy spots. But again, this was good. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for your detailed review and tips Aaron. I hope you'll stop back again soon to check out some of our other pizza recipes. 🙂
I pretty much want that ENTIRE pizza! Dang that looks good! My kids would go crazy for this!
Pretzel pizza? That sounds so interesting!! Would love to try it with cheddar and bacon as toppings 🙂 Looks delicious