No Yeast Pizza Dough Recipe (5 ingredients) - Crazy for Crust (2024)

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Table of Contents

• Why we love Homemade Pizza Dough without Yeast
• What can I use instead of yeast in pizza dough?
• No Yeast Pizza Dough Ingredients
• How to make Pizza Dough without Yeast
• Best Pizza Pans
• How to get a crispy bottom
• How to use Alternate Flours
• Storing Yeastless Pizza Dough
• No Yeast Pizza Dough Recipe Recipe
• Pizza Toppings

Why we love Homemade Pizza Dough without Yeast

So many people have been making my ultimate pizza dough recipe lately but, like with my white bread, I get tons of questions about how to make it without yeast.

Sometimes you can’t find yeast in the store or sometimes you just want easy homemade pizza fast and without any strange ingredients – and that’s when you want a no yeast pizza dough recipe.

What can I use instead of yeast in pizza dough?

Instead of using yeast, you can use baking powder. The correct combination of baking powder to flour and salt will cause the dough to rise in the oven and have a similar texture to a crust with yeast.

Because it won’t have the rising process of yeast, this dough won’t be as chewy and it won’t have that “yeasty” flavor, but it is the perfect way to make pizza crust when you don’t have yeast.

No Yeast Pizza Dough Ingredients

• All Purpose Flour – this is my standard pizza crust flour
• Baking Powder – this is what we’re using to help the crust rise
• Salt – for flavor
• Olive Oil – for chew and flavor
• Water – to bind the ingredients

If you happen to have self-rising flour, you can easily substitute in this recipe. Instead of the dry ingredients below, just use 2 1/2 cups of self-rising flour.

Best Pizza Pans

Just like when you make a traditional pizza dough, you have pan options:

• Use a round pizza pan, like I did. Mine is a 10″ round, but you can use any size. If you have a smaller pan but want a thinner pizza, just divide the dough in two to make two pizzas.
• Use a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan
• Bake this in a cast iron skillet
• Divide the dough in quarters to make four personal pizzas.

How to get a crispy bottom

No matter what your pizza crust recipe, the best way to cook your pizza dough is to start with a hot pan.

Preheat your oven to 450°F before making the dough, and then let the pan preheat in the oven while you’re preparing the crust. Transfer the crust to the hot pan – carefully – either before or after topping with toppings.

The hot pan will cook the crust before the dough itself cooks in the oven, making it crunchier.

How to use Alternate Flours

Because this crust has no yeast and is not finicky, there are lots of substitutions you can make:

Gluten Free Pizza Dough: use a Gluten Free 1:1 All Purpose Flour (i.e. Bob’s Red Mill light blue bag). Use the same amount as called for in the recipe.

Whole Wheat Pizza Dough: Substitute 1 cup whole wheat flour and use the rest all-purpose.

Bread Flour and White Whole Wheat Flour can be used one-to-one, as can self-rising flour.

And if you’re looking to make a healthier pizza crust, check out my Weight Watchers Pizza Dough Recipe which is very similar to this one, but it uses Greek Yogurt instead of water and oil.

Storing Yeastless Pizza Dough

I made an extra batch of dough and put it in the refrigerator to test how long it lasted, and it was only good overnight. Therefore, I’m advising you to make the crust right before making your pizza, and don’t try to make it ahead of time, unless you’re using it within a few hours.

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Pizza Toppings

With this pizza dough without yeast you can make so many different kinds of pizza!

• Hawaiian Pizza
• Mushroom Sausage Pesto Pizza
• Breakfast Pizza
• Garlic Ranch Breadsticks
• Easy Homemade Pizza Sauce
• Pesto