A soft pizza dough recipe, topped with your favorite pizza toppings and baked.
Additional Notes:
Click here for a video demonstration of me making this pizza! :)
*If you're short on time, you can skip this rise and just press your freshly-kneaded dough onto the pan and continue with the recipe.
*Alternate baking directions: Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Bake pizza for 15 minutes on the bottom rack, or until browned. (Baking on the top or middle racks could result in an under-cooked crust.)

Preparation Time: 30-40 minutes + rising time
Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Reader tip:
Pizza Tips Baking Thicker Crusts
Can't wait to try this recipe! I have dough recipe that is similar, but is a bit more work.
One tip that I got from my favorite pizza recipe is to add the cheese later on in the cooking process, so it has time to just melt and brown. The cheese has a high moisture content, and seals this in as it melts, which can cause the center of your pizza to be doughy (especially if you like a thicker crust.)
I also like to mix some spices into the dough, and brush the shaped crust with (fresh) garlic olive oil before topping it. YUM!
Another thing that I do, is to preheat the oven to 450 with a baking stone in place. You have to slide the prepared pizza onto the super hot stone, and it takes a little finesse and defintely the corn meal. :) But it makes a super crisp, brick oven style crust. I have a pizza peale that I recieved as a gift, and that's what we use to make our pizza's on, and then slide them onto the stone.