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The Best Pizza Loaf Recipe

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By: Britni Vigil
1/28/2020Updated: 4/26/2022
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This pizza loaf recipe is easy to make, delicious, and sure to be a hit with everyone. Whether you make pepperoni pizza loaf or buffalo chicken, it’ll be yummy for anyone who enjoys pizza! 

This homemade pizza loaf is the best way to enjoy your favorite pizza! One of the best recipes for pizza lovers ever!

Pizza Loaf

If I had to pick one meal to eat before I die, it would hands down be pizza loaf with striped delight for dessert. This is my all-time favorite meal and not just because it’s nostalgic for me, because it’s delicious.

It’s like pizza and like a calzone but better. 

And the best part of it is that you can customize it to your favorite toppings. Just make a couple of different loaves from one batch of dough and keep everyone happy! 

Or if you’re a superwoman like my mom, you can make 15 different pizza loaves. That’s what we did last weekend – played this Super Bowl Squares game, enjoyed some buffalo chicken dip roll ups, and ate pizza loaf. So much fun. 

Sliced pizza loaf and pizza sauce

Pizza Loaf Ingredients

The main ingredients you’ll need totally depends on you. What are your favorite pizza toppings? I bet they taste even better inside of a pizza loaf than on top of a pizza. 

Here’s what to buy if you want to make pizza loaf!

  • Pizza dough – homemade or store bought (like actual pizza dough, not a pre-made crust) works. This is the homemade pizza dough recipe my mom uses and it’s AMAZING
  • Pizza toppings – whatever you want will likely work inside of pizza loaf. Pepperoni, olives, sausage, bacon, veggies, ham and pineapple, really whatever. 
  • Mozzarella cheese – lots and lots of cheese! 
  • Pizza sauce – again you can use homemade or store-bought.  Pizza sauce is for dipping the pizza loaf in, not adding into the pizza loaf (that’ll make it soggy). 
  • Butter – This isn’t a requirement but swiping it across the top after the pizza loaf comes out of the oven does make it taste better
Pizza loaf being dipped in sauce

Pizza Loaf Alternatives

Want to make pizza loaf but with something other than traditional pizza toppings? Here are some of our favorite ways to make it with other ingredients.

  • Breakfast Loaf – scrambled eggs, bacon, and cheese 
  • Sandwich Loaf – your preferred lunch meat and sliced cheese 
  • Buffalo chicken – buffalo chicken with mozzarella cheese and dipped in ranch dressing 

How to Make Pizza Loaf

 

Making pizza loaf is so easy, especially if you just buy store-bought dough. Homemade is better but store-bought definitely makes it faster.

Here’s all you do to make it!

1 – Roll out the pizza dough. 

Roll it out into a long oval shape. Don’t do a square or circle – it has to be an oval/rectangle so you can braid properly. 

Kind of like I did for these pepperoni rolls.

Pizza dough rolled out for pizza loaf

2 – Top the pizza dough.

This part is important. Line your toppings up down the middle of the pizza dough leaving a few inches of dough all the way around so you can pull the braid over. 

If you top the entire pizza dough, you won’t be able to braid it and that’s a no-go. 

One other note – make sure to put the cheese on the top, not the bottom. You can do both if you want (not necessary) but if you put the cheese on the bottom and not the top, the toppings just don’t stay together as well. It’s weird but true. 

Pizza loaf toppings

Step 3 – Cut the dough.

Using kitchen scissors, cut one-inch cuts along both sides of the dough, leaving the ends uncut. 

Pizza loaf toppings ready to be wrapped

Step 4 – Braid the dough.

Starting on one end, pull the one-inch cuts of dough across the toppings, alternating sides.

I highly recommend watching the video in this post to see this part because it’s easy but sounds confusing when you just read it. 

Wrapping up pizza loaf
 
Dough wrapped for pizza loaf

Step 5 – Bake the pizza. 

Bake the pizza in the oven at 425 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until the dough is fully cooked and lightly browned.

Remove from the oven and butter the top before serving hot. You don’t necessarily have to butter the top but it definitely helps. 

Baked pizza loaf ready to be cut

Step 6 – Slice the loaf.

While still hot, slice with a pizza cutter into slices about 2 inches thick and serve hot with your favorite pizza sauce for dipping.

Or serve it at room temperature. It’ll still be delicious, promise. 

Cutting pizza loaf with a pizza cutter
 
Stacked pizza loaf slices
 
Braid pizza toppings into pizza dough, this would be delicious with pizza, sandwich stuff, or even eggs and bacon from playpartyplan.com
 

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Pizza Loaf

Pizza loaf is a delicious way to enjoy your favorite pizza toppings! Pizza toppings all braided up and baked inside pizza dough and one of the best dinners ever.
Stacked pizza loaf slices
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Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
Serves4 people

Ingredients

  • pizza dough homemade or store-bought is fine
  • pizza toppings of your choice
  • mozzarella cheese
  • butter for topping the pizza loaf out of the oven
  • pizza sauce for dipping

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
  • Roll the dough out into a long oval shape.
  • Add toppings (cheese on top) to the middle of the pizza dough.
  • Cut the dough from the outer edge to the toppings, every one inch, around the dough
  • Beginning on one end, fold the one inch dough sections over the ingredients creating a braid.
  • Bake at 425 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until the dough is lightly browned.
  • Remove from the oven and top with butter before serving hot.
  • Serve hot with your favorite pizza sauce for dipping.

Nutrition Info

Calories: 485kcal, Carbohydrates: 51g, Protein: 24g, Fat: 21g, Saturated Fat: 10g, Cholesterol: 57mg, Sodium: 1595mg, Potassium: 279mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 9g, Vitamin A: 648IU, Vitamin C: 4mg, Calcium: 297mg, Iron: 4mg

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Author: Britni Vigil
Course:Dinner
Cuisine:American
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This homemade pizza loaf is the best way to enjoy your favorite pizza! One of the best recipes for pizza lovers ever!
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  1. Tammy Vinsel says

    Posted on 10/2 at 12:31 pm

    Now my favorite snack to take to any get togethers!

    Reply
  2. Lorraine says

    Posted on 5/11 at 11:09 am

    425 or 350 and…… no need for a pizza stone?

    Reply
    • BritniV says

      Posted on 5/25 at 9:44 am

      So sorry Lorraine, cook it at 425 and we use a pizza stone, but it’s not necessary.

      Reply
  3. Cindy Bugg says

    Posted on 1/26 at 2:22 pm

    Is there sauce in there? I couldn’t tell.

    Reply
    • BritniV says

      Posted on 1/26 at 2:24 pm

      No sauce Cindy, just the pizza and then you dip it in sauce! You could probably add sauce if you want, but it’d likely fall out the sides and be a lot harder to fold!

      Reply
  4. Noemi says

    Posted on 4/15 at 9:51 pm

    Wow! I’m going to try this way of folding the dough . It looks yummy. As beginner in baking I love to try new ways as variation . THANKS!

    Reply
  5. Bonnie says

    Posted on 1/31 at 10:47 am

    is there no sauce on this?

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    • BritniV says

      Posted on 2/1 at 6:21 pm

      Nope, we dip it in pizza sauce! Hope you enjoy.

      Reply
  6. Amber says

    Posted on 1/30 at 9:14 am

    mmmm, looks delicious, I think I will try it soon for my family.

    Reply
  7. Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says

    Posted on 1/29 at 6:55 pm

    This looks so good! I’m definitely going to have to try it. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  8. Rosie says

    Posted on 10/20 at 8:41 pm

    What brand of pizza dough did you use for this? It looks delicious!

    Reply
    • BritniV says

      Posted on 10/21 at 7:45 am

      I actually made my own for this one. I’ll be posting a recipe soon!

      Reply
  9. Elle @ (Eat.Style.Play) says

    Posted on 6/9 at 2:21 pm

    This looks really yummy!

    Reply
    • Britni Vigil says

      Posted on 6/10 at 2:31 am

      Thanks Elle! And I love your name.

      Reply
  10. Krista R says

    Posted on 6/8 at 3:00 pm

    I make a lot of loaves like this and Strombolis., but I always have trouble getting them cooked all the way through, but I’ve been rolling them up. I’m going to try this next time, its prettier too!

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    • Britni Vigil says

      Posted on 6/10 at 2:31 am

      We never have issues getting it to cook all the way through Krista so definitely try it!

      Reply
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