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Garlic Bread Pizza Crust

Garlic Bread Pizza Crust
  • Prep 30 min
  • Total 2 hr 30 min
  • Servings 1
Garlic bread and pizza crust get married and make deliciousness in this easy recipe.
By Girl Versus Dough
Updated March 8, 2017

Ingredients

  • 1 1/8 cups warm water
  • 3 teaspoons active dry yeast
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 cups Gold Medal™ white whole wheat flour or whole wheat flour + 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour OR 3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons minced garlic
  • 2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  • Toppings: cheese, meat, veggies, etc.

Steps

  • 1
    In a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, combine water, yeast, honey and olive oil. Whisk lightly with a fork and let rest for 10 minutes until puffed and foamy.
  • 2
    Add 2 1/2 cups flour, salt, garlic powder, dried basil and dried oregano and stir with a spoon or dough hook until dough comes together.
  • 3
    Place dough on a lightly floured surface and knead 10 minutes, adding more remaining flour as necessary until dough is smooth, elastic and slightly sticky OR mix dough in a stand mixer with a dough hook about 5-7 minutes on medium speed, adding more remaining flour as necessary until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and is smooth, elastic and slightly sticky.
  • 4
    Shape dough into a ball and place in a lightly greased bowl covered with a towel or plastic wrap to rise, about 1 hour.
  • 5
    Preheat oven to 375°F. Punch down risen dough and place on a lightly floured baking sheet or pizza stone.
  • 6
    Pat into a thin crust (don’t use a rolling pin: This will break up the air bubbles in the crust and it won’t be as light and airy once baked). Let dough rest 10 minutes; meanwhile, melt 3 tablespoons butter and stir in garlic and 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese.
  • 7
    Once dough has rested, spoon or brush butter mixture onto the crust, concentrating on the edges. Place desired toppings on top of prepared crust and bake 20-25 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted and gooey.
  • 8
    While pizza is baking, melt remaining tablespoon of butter and mix with remaining Parmesan cheese. Remove pizza from oven and brush butter mixture on fully baked crust. Let pizza rest 10 minutes before slicing and serving.

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  • When it comes to making homemade pizza crust, this gal doesn’t mess around. I’ve been around the block. This ain’t my first rodeo. Pizza crust and I are likethis. You get the idea – if I find a new recipe for homemade pizza crust, it’d better be good. So you can imagine when I discovered this Garlic Bread Pizza Crust (adapted from How Sweet It Is) for the first time, I was a bit skeptical that it would be any better than other crusts I’ve made in the past. But people – Oh. My. Goodness. This one knocked my socks off. It was the bee’s knees. It totally floats my boat (I’m trying to fit in as many idioms into this post as possible. How am I doing so far?).
  • You see, there are two things I love to eat more than most things in the world: Pizza and garlic bread. If these two things were their own food groups, I’d be super-duper healthy. I would freaking own the food pyramid. My point is, I have a serious food crush on pizza and garlic bread (and carbs, apparently). So when mine eyes were first laid upon this particular recipes that COMBINES THE TWO, I was utterly bewitched, body and soul, all Mr. Darcy-style. This pizza crust is a food revelation. Who knew two wonders of the world could be mixed into one glorious, delicious recipe? I mean, it totally makes sense though, right? Garlic and cheese, cheese and butter, butter and bread… dear me. It’s an everyday miracle. A lot like when you find a dollar on the ground, or when the person in front of you pays for your coffee, or when you get a random card in the mail from an old friend. These are the things that make us surprisingly happy. That, and carbs.
  • Let’s just put it this way: If I could give this pizza a hug, I would. And I’d give you a hug, too, if you made it. And then I’d probably invite myself over to your home and eat it for dinner with you. So, you know, just let me know what time to come over. Kthanksbye.
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