I love a good homemade pizza, but honestly, fussing with a hot pizza stone is such a pain. Trying to slide an assembled pizza onto the hot stone often ends up with me being super frustrated at things sticking or toppings falling off, all while my head is half inside a super hot oven. Not fun when your family is hangry and you just want an easy dinner! Enter: sheet pan pizza. The crust may not be as thin and crispy as a rolled out pizza cooked on a stone. However, it is SO EASY, there is very little mess, and you can make one HUGE pizza with everyone’s favorite toppings on it. This is definitely my favorite way to make homemade pizza for these reasons! And guess what? You CAN achieve a crispy crust with a sheet pan. The trick? Bake it on the bottom rack! This ensures the bottom of the pizza is getting enough heat to fully cook and get pretty crispy without burning the toppings or the cheese. Ta-da! You only need four main ingredients for this (plus any additional toppings), and about 25 minutes to whip it up. Be sure to check out the video in the recipe card below!
Sheet Pan Recommendation
Ingredients needed
For this sheet pan pizza recipe, you’ll need four main ingredients:
Prepared Pizza Dough – For the over-achievers, I recommend a homemade honey whole wheat pizza dough, but any store-bought version is fine. Prepared Pizza Sauce – if I’m being honest, I usually just use marinara sauce, since I often have some left over from other recipes. You can use any pizza sauce you want – here’s a great homemade pizza sauce recipe that only takes 10 minutes to whip up!Olive oil or cooking spray – to grease the panShredded Mozzarella Cheese – or a dairy-free/vegan substitute, if applicable. You can also do sliced fresh mozzarella if you’re feeling fancy.Other toppings of choice – see below for suggestions.
How to make Homemade Sheet Pan Pizza
Topping Suggestions:
Pepperoni and Black OlivePineapple, Red Onion, and HamSausage and MushroomSliced Tomatoes and Fresh Basil (see tips below)Salami and Fresh Arugula (see tips below)
Choose any toppings you want – the possibilities are endless! This is a fun way to get creative in the kitchen and allow your kids to do whatever they want.
Tips and Tricks
Be sure your pizza dough is at room temperature and not cold from the fridge. You can place your dough on the greased sheet pan on top of the oven while it preheats to speed things along. Take refrigerated dough out of the fridge 1-2 hours before cooking, or frozen dough out on the counter 3-4 hours before cooking. If it’s hard to spread the dough out, let it rest for 10 minutes or so and come back to it and it should be easier. If topping with fresh basil or fresh arugula, or something similar, add those toppings after cooking the pizza. Their flavor is better fresh and gets kind of lost and they dry out if you cook it on the pizza.
Other homemade pizza recipes
Caprese Naan PizzaHawaiian PizzaBBQ Chicken Naan PizzaSausage Breakfast PizzaDessert Rainbow Fruit Pizza
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