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Breakfast pizza is pizza in the loosest sense of the word, in the same part of the vast pizza universe as dessert pizza. But don’t let your previously held beliefs about pizza prevent you from trying this recipe, which is ultimately a tasty vehicle for delivering carbs, scrambled eggs, and bacon to your mouth in an efficient, but also very fun, way.
How Do You Make Breakfast Pizza?
To make breakfast pizza, you stretch out a store-bought dough into a baking pan, par bake it, then top it with cheese, any toppings you want, lightly scrambled eggs, and crumbled crisp bacon before baking it a second time to help the cheese melt and all the flavors meld together.
The whole process only takes about 30 minutes of hands-on time, and you can cut that down even further by cooking and crumbling the bacon ahead of time. Keep it refrigerated until you’re ready to use it, up to a couple days.
How To Top Your Breakfast Pizza
For our breakfast pizza, we add sautéed onions and bell peppers for more flavor and color, but you can go in a lot of different directions. Think about your favorite pizza toppings and try them out here. Mushrooms, spinach, canned artichokes, olives, sliced jalapeños, or even dollops of ricotta or pesto would all work well. Instead of bacon, try cooked crumbled breakfast sausage, Mexican chorizo, or veggie sausage.
How To Serve Breakfast Pizza
Breakfast pizza is really the ultimate all-in-one breakfast that doesn’t need much of an accompaniment, except for maybe a glass of orange juice or some fruit salad. While people of all ages love breakfast pizza, this is the perfect breakfast to serve to kids in the morning after a sleepover, maybe minus the onions and peppers if you’re dealing with picky eaters.
Tips for Making Breakfast Pizza
- Cooking the bacon in the oven is less messy than cooking it on the stovetop, and you can cook more slices at a time. However, if you prefer you can cook the bacon in a skillet instead.
- This recipe was developed for thick-cut bacon. If using thin slices, start checking them for doneness at 14 minutes.
- Par-baking the pizza crust is key to getting a perfectly baked crust without overcooking the eggs and bacon.
- When scrambling the eggs, it’s ok to leave them a little bit underdone. They will finish cooking on top of the pizza in the oven.
