The Best Pizza Dough
This Best Pizza Dough recipe is so easy to make. It creates the most delicious dough ever. My family asks me to make this all the time!
There is a huge debate over who has the best pizza. New York? Chicago? Italy? Well, my friends, let me be the one to answer this puzzling question and say that it’s none of them! That’s right! With my Best Pizza Dough recipe, the world’s greatest pizza will come straight from your oven, and the best part is that it only requires 6 simple ingredients.
Combine water, honey, yeast, and salt in a stand mixer. Once these are all mixed begin to gradually add the flour. When the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl it only requires a quick knead for a few minutes. This gives it some love and helps keep the dough tender. Cover and let it rest for at least 10 minutes.
Once the dough is ready, it’s time to get creative. Flatten out the dough to fit your baking pan and then go nuts with your sauce and toppings. PRO TIP: If it’s difficult to spread and flatten the dough into a pizza shape, let it rest for another 5 minutes or so. Your dough is ready when it is easy to work with.
We love having pizza nights at our house. It’s one of my favorite dinner activities to have with my family. Everyone gets to be their own chef and have whatever they want on their personal pizza. Pizza memories made in your very own kitchen is by far the best pizza in the world.
HOW MANY PIZZAS DOES THIS DOUGH MAKE?
This dough recipe creates 1 large pizza, OR 2 small pizzas, OR 4 personal size pizzas.
CAN I FREEZE THE DOUGH?
Yes! This dough freezes beautifully. Place it in a freezer-safe bag. Make sure to squeeze out as much air as possible before sealing the bag. Freeze dough for up to two months. Let the dough thaw in the refrigerator for at least 10 to 12 hours, then let sit on the counter to bring it to room temperature before making a pizza. You want the dough to be soft, and workable.
CAN THIS BE MADE GLUTEN FREE?
Yes! Substitute gluten-free flour instead of all-purpose flour.
ENJOY THIS RECIPE? HERE ARE A FEW MORE TO GET THE FAMILY INVOLVED!
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Ham and Cheese Sliders – Tender ham, melty cheese, on a toasted slider bun.
The Best Pizza Dough
Ingredients
- 1 cup warm water (100 degrees F.)
- 1 tablespoon honey (or granulated sugar)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon instant yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, fitted with the dough hook, mix the warm water, honey, oil, yeast and salt. Add the flour gradually until a soft dough forms and pulls away from the sides of the bowl. (The dough should be soft and smooth. You can add up to another 1/2 cup of flour, but no more than that.)
- Knead the dough for 3 minutes in stand mixer.
- Cover dough with a kitchen towel and allow to rest for 10 minutes. Shape and flatten dough out onto a greased pizza pan or greased baking sheet. Top evenly with your favorite sauce and pizza toppings.
- **If using a pizza stone, place stone in the oven while it preheats. Shape the dough out onto a large circle on parchment paper. Then carefully transfer the pizza dough onto a pizza peel that is dusted with flour and cornmeal. Top dough with pizza sauce and toppings, then carefully slide pizza onto the stone and bake.
- Bake pizza at 450 degrees F. for 12 to 14 minutes or until cheese is melted and bubbly, and edges of crust are a nice golden-brown. Carefully remove from oven. Allow pizza to stand and cool for at least 5 minutes before slicing and serving. Enjoy!
Notes
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What else can you make with this dough. Seems very easy and im making itntonight, will let you know how it turned out. Thank you
Amazing recipe!! Definitely a keeper!!
Every time i make this my outer crust gets so dark. Should i cover it with foIl? It gets way too brown after the first 10-minute prebake, so by the time i bake it with the ingredients it almost looks burned. How do you get it golden Brown cooking it at that high temp?
HI Jill! Sorry that is happening. I would just reduce the first prebake time by 5 minutes. Just prebake for 5 minutes then continue as normal. You can also reduce the temperature to 425 degrees F. A lot of ovens heat differently so this problem can be common.
The best For sure love this my daughter made this and we can’t get enough soo definitely will do this again❤
Is there a DIFFERENCE between instant yeast & active dry yeast( as this what I have in my cupBoard) thanks
Yes there’s a difference. You do not need to proof instant yeast (where you let the yeast and water soak together until it bubbles.) active dry yeast you do need to proof first. Hope this helps! 🙂
Do Let it proof with the yeast & water alone or do I also add the honey? & how long do I let it proof for? Thanks again
Proof just the yeast and water together. Let them stand together until bubbly and foamy, then it’s proofed. It should only take about 10 minutes or less. (If it doesn’t bubble/foam then the yeast is bad and won’t work.)
Then continue with the rest of the recipe as normal. 🙂
Ive never made pizza DOugh before, or used the dough hook on my stand mixer. Is it posSible to double the recipe, or will it be too much for the mixer? Excited to try this recipe!
Yes Krista, you can double this recipe in a standard mixer. Hope you enjoy it!
THis was great! I dont have a bread hook on my mixer so I just did it on low adding ingredients slow. And I kneaded by hand 3 mins. Followed the other instructions. About as close as you can get to take out. Loved it!
This is a fabulous crust. Very easy to make and in minimal time. Love it!!
This is my go to. I also stuff the crust and use bread flour for the chew.
Made this pizza recipe tonight and it was delicious!
Made tonight, a real keeper easy easy real good.
Best pizza recipe ever! I’ve been using it for 3 years and I get perfect pizzas everytime!
ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL pizza dough recipe Holly. Never to return to any other recipe again!! I did need to add a biT more flour but the end resut is amazing.
I made Pizza MargHetria and it was FABULOUS.
Thanks for an amazing recipe, you rock!!
Please excuse the random capital letters in my post, your site keeps everything In upper case and then switches to all sorts of unusal things once posted. Very strange. Still floored by an amazing recipe. Thanks.
Holly, do you need to bake the dough before adding toppings, then bake again.
No. Make the dough as instructed then add the toppings then bake 🙂
Ive tried many dough recipes. Yours is THE best, easiest, no fail recipe I tried. I threw out all my other dough recipes!!!
Such a beautiful dough! Easy to make and bakes up amazing. Made barbecue chicken pizza and it was awesome! This will go in my pizza dough rotation for sure.
I didn’t pay attention to how fast it would be ready! Can i stick it in tbe fridge for an hour?
Yes! It will still rise in the fridge, but yes, you can store it in there for a few hours before using it. 🙂
By far the best pizza dough Ever! We use all the time in our ooni pizza oven. I always get compliments on the dough. Thanks for a great recipe!
Turned out PERFECT! Nice and fluffy! My family gave it a 10 out of 10
wow, I never leave reviews on recipes, however this pizza crust is fantastic!!
Fabulous pizza dough! Quick, easy and delicious.
Thank you for sharing. Will share with my friends and teach my grandson.
He is gonna love this one.
Its a great crust!!
I was leary to try…it sounded too easy. But wow, it was AMAZING! I made 2 batches. One for Pizza, one for garlic breadsticks. Both were a hit!
I was very worried there was no par baking and the dough would not be fully cooked under all our toppings,but it was the most delicious pizza crust I’ve ever had! Never buying pre-made dough again!