Looking for a fun, easy twist on homemade pizza? Skip the dough and use frozen garlic bread instead. Taking advantage of a grocery store staple, this playful mash-up promises the saucy cheesy goodness of your favorite pizza, all atop a super-soft, garlic buttery base. Crusts will never be thrown out again.
Baking the garlic bread before adding the pizza toppings ensures a crispy base and maximum garlicky flavor from the bread’s signature topping, while broiling the topped pizza mimics the high heat of a professional pizza oven, producing crispy pepperoni and bubbling caramelized cheese.
Read on for more tips and information on this fun pizza hack. Hungry for more garlic butter? Check out our garlic knots.
Why are we making our own pizza sauce?
Quite honestly, most store-bought pizza sauce isn’t great, and when a dish is primarily composed of three things (garlic bread, sauce, and cheese), it’s worth a little extra effort to be sure all three components are as delicious as possible. This pizza sauce recipe takes 30 minutes, and while it makes more sauce that you’ll need for this recipe, you can store the extra in the refrigerator for up to a week ('til the next pizza night!) or freeze it for future use.
Can I use unfrozen prepackaged garlic bread for this? What if my loaf is a different size?
We tested this recipe with a 10-ounce loaf of frozen garlic bread, but you can absolutely use a fresh deli-made garlic bread loaf. You’ll probably want to adjust the initial cooking time on the garlic bread—it should be crispy on the bottom and sides but not tough before you top it. And if your loaf is a full pound, you’ll need closer to 3/4 cup pizza sauce and 1 2/3 cups mozzarella to give your pizzas that perfect even topping.
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