For an easy homemade pizza, give our easy sheet pan pizza recipe a try! It is made with our homemade pizza dough recipe and it is a great recipe to customize to what you and your family like!
This easy sheet pan pizza recipe is one of those great budget-friendly dinner recipes you can make on a friday night and know everyone will enjoy it.
One thing I love about making pizza at home is that I can make the pizza with any and all the pizza toppings we want and don’t need to get charged extra for it. Plus, I tend to like my pizza extra saucy so this way I can control just how much sauce is on the pizza.
Also, sometimes I will double the recipe so I can make up four pans of pizza and make four different types of people that everyone likes to feed a crowd.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make our sheet pan pizza recipe, you need the following ingredients:
- All-purpose flour
- Active dry yeast
- Salt
- Brown sugar
- Warm water
- Olive oil
- Diced tomatoes, undrained
- Tomato paste
- Dried basil
- Dried oregano
- Dried thyme
- Garlic powder
- Black pepper
- Shredded mozzarella cheese
- Grated parmesan cheese
- Any and all pizza toppings you like!
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
- Mixing Bowl (Large)
- Spoon (Wooden)
- Mixing Bowl (Medium)
- 2 Sheet Pan (Half Sheet)
- Non-stick Cooking Spray
- Plastic Wrap
- Pizza Cutter
How to Make This Easy Sheet Pan Pizza Recipe:
- In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, yeast, salt and brown sugar. Add water and oil; beat until smooth. Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface; knead until smooth (about 5-7 minutes). Place dough in a bowl sprayed with non-stick cooking spray or dusted with flour. Cover bowl with a towel or plastic wrap and let stand for 10 minutes.
- While dough rests, combine tomatoes, tomato paste, oil and seasonings in a medium mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Divide dough in half; press into two 15x10x1″ baking pans (cookie sheets) sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Prick dough all over with a fork. Bake at 425℉ or until lightly browned, about 12-16 minutes.
- Spread sauce over crusts; top with cheese and favorite toppings. Bake pizza in preheated oven until cheese is melted, about 8-10 minutes.
- Cut into squares and serve.
Gluten-Free Pizza Version
To make this pizza gluten-free, switch out the all-purpose flour for one of the 12 best gluten-free substitutes that Mind Body and Green suggests. And then you should be good to go!
Delicious Pizza Toppings
The nice thing about homemade pizza is the ability to essentially turn it into anything you want based on what you like! All you have to do is make sure you have the toppings ready to use.
These are a few of our favorite toppings to use for pizza include the following: bacon crumbles, pepperoni, pineapple chunks, ground cooked sausage, black olives, chopped chicken, ham, red onions, or banana peppers. I am definitely a sucker for a good BBQ chicken pizza! For that, you won’t need pizza sauce. Just switch it out for BBQ sauce.
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Sheet Pan Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
Crust
- 2¾-3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 package active dry yeast, (¼ ounce)
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon brown sugar
- 1 cup warm water, (120° to 130°)
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
Sauce
- 1 can diced tomatoes, (14.5 ounces), undrained
- 1 can tomato paste, (6 ounces)
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon oregano
- ½ teaspoon thyme
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
Pizza Toppings
- 5 cups shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 package sliced pepperonis, (3½ ounces)
- sliced olives
- thinly sliced green bell peppers
- other favorite pizza toppings
Equipment
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, yeast, salt and brown sugar. Add water and oil; beat until smooth. Add enough remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface; knead until smooth (about 5-7 minutes). Place dough in a bowl sprayed with non-stick cooking spray or dusted with flour. Cover bowl with a towel or plastic wrap and let stand for 10 minutes.
- While dough rests, combine tomatoes, tomato paste, oil and seasonings in a medium mixing bowl. Set aside.
- Divide dough in half; press into two 15x10x1" baking pans (cookie sheets) sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Prick dough all over with a fork. Bake at 425℉ or until lightly browned, about 12-16 minutes.
- Spread sauce over crusts; top with cheese and favorite toppings. Bake pizza in preheated oven until cheese is melted, about 8-10 minutes.
- Cut into squares and serve.
Notes
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What a big hit and so easy to make! I had my kids pick areas of the sheet pan to put their personalized toppings.