16 Pizza Dough Recipes: Tasty!

This week’s Recipe Hit List is all about making your own tasty pizza dough. Some time ago I collected a bunch of recipes for homemade pizza that included a few pizza dough recipes but I decided that there were plenty more goodies out there that needed to be shared, so here’s the list. Enjoy!

Homemade Pizza Dough Recipes

*Note: Descriptions below are quotes from the recipe sites

Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe By wolfgangpuck.com

1. Pizza Dough: With this recipe you can make four pizzas, as described below, or you can divide the dough in half and make two large 12- inch pizzas. The baking time will be the same. Chopped fresh basil, chopped sun-dried tomatoes, or a sprinkling of crushed red pepper flakes can be added to the dough with the flour, if desired, for additional flavor. Be creative with your pizzas! Recipe from Wolfgang Puck.
2. Easy Bread Machine Pizza Dough: This pizza dough really is easy! It’s chewy and has a wonderful flavor. You can also use this dough to make focaccia, calzones, and breadsticks. Recipe found at Andrea’s Recipes.
3. Homemade Pizza Crust: I was so surprised at how good it was! It actually tasted like pizza crust, not something vaguely resembling pizza crust. This will totally be my go-to recipe when I want pizza now. I’m so glad I tried. Recipe found at Honey And Jam.
4. Thin Crust Pizza Dough: You will end up a dough that has more flavor and is easier to work with if you let it rise overnight. If you are in a hurry you can up the instant yeast to 1 1/4 tsp and let the dough rise for an hour before rolling it out. Recipe found at Cookography.
5. Thin Crust Whole Wheat Pizza Dough: Now when I say “good” I mean this dough isn’t your local pizza joint dough. It isn’t “bready” it’s thin, it get’s crunchy, and holds the toppings very well. It also passed the picky husband, the fickle toddler, the good friend and the teenager test! Yes, all of those taste testers have tried and enjoyed pizza made from this dough! Recipe found at GreenLiteBites.
6. Beer Drinker’s Pizza Dough: Courtesy of Santo Bruno, this recipe for Pizza Dough makes a delicious base for a Beer Drinker’s Perfect Pizza. Recipe found at Martha Stewart.
7. Wheat Pizza Dough: Try chef Curtis Stone’s recipe for Wheat Pizza Dough. Found at Oprah.com
8. Pizza Dough: Recipe from Rachael Ray.
9. Pizza Hut Style Pizza Dough: Let me preface by saying that I do not like Pizza Hut. It is way too greasy for my taste and has never agreed with my stomach too well. I didn’t try this recipe because I love Pizza Hut so much, but I was simply intrigued by the ingredient list. Although this recipe has a few more ingredients than my past variations, it is by far THE BEST pizza dough. I promise not to lead you astray and hope that you might get a chance to give this recipe a shot. It is worth the effort. Recipe from Mom Advice.
10. Overnight Pizza Dough: The dough gets its slightly tangy flavor from a “sponge” (a mixture of warm water, yeast, and flour that’s allowed to ferment). Timing note: The sponge needs to rest overnight; the dough needs to rise for about eight hours. Recipe from epicurious.
11. Purple Pizza Dough: My seven-year-old daughter Clara thought this pizza was the coolest yet, thanks to bright purple dough. She didn’t even care that I dyed it with a cooked beet. I was, for a moment, the greatest mom ever. At least until I sent her to go pick up her room. This crust is great. It has good flavor, and doesn’t taste like beets surprisingly. Recipe from The Cooking Photographer.
12. Slow Rise Pizza Dough: There are a few things you need to know about this pizza dough: it needs to be prepared a day in advance, it makes enough for 6 pizza crusts, it preforms best on a pizza stone, and it’s not hard if you follow the directions carefully. The dough does a slow rise/ferment overnight which gives it not only a lovely flavor, but an unbeatable texture. It’s a process you just can’t rush. The good news is that you end up making enough dough for six pizzas, and it can be frozen easily. Recipe from VeganYumYum.
13. No-Knead Pizza Dough: Adapted from Jim Lahey, Co. Even Lahey’s pizza dough is based on his foolproof recipe for no-knead bread, which triggered a home-baking revolution when The New York Times published it in 2006. Here, he’s adapted it for our readers, with one admonition: “Making the dough is easy,” he says. “Handling it, tossing it—that’s the tricky part.” Recipe found at TastingTable.
14. Perfect Pizza Dough: Recipe from BBC Recipes.
15. Pizza Dough: If you won’t have an hour to let your dough rest, read our Dough in a Hurry strategy. By cutting back each phase of dough preparation by the right amount, you can make great pizza or focaccia dough in as little as an hour. Recipe from Forno Bravo.
16. Five Minute Pizza Dough: Ordering pizzas aren’t an option for us, no delivery guys would come all the way out to where we live – but that’s probably a good thing. Our pizza dough recipe is so easy, I make it by lunchtime and it’s ready to roll for dinner. It literally takes only five minutes (not including rising) and tastes amazing. Recipe from Nini Makes.

Bonus: Wish you could cook your homemade pizzas on a pizza stone? Try this tip: DIY Pizza Stones.

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