Pumpkin Dessert Pizza

Pumpkin Dessert Pizza - this sweet, pumpkin spice pizza uses a thin crust, a pumpkin pie style topping with a cream cheese drizzle.

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Ingredients you'll need for Pumpkin Dessert Pizza

• active dry yeast
• honey
• all purpose flour
• salt
• pumpkin puree
• sugar
• cinnamon
• ground ginger
• ground cloves
• brown sugar
• unsalted butter
• cream cheese
• powdered sugar
• vanilla extract
• milk

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How to make pumpkin dessert pizza

Detailed instructions and measurements are listed in the recipe card at the bottom of this page.

• Start by making pizza dough. If you’re using store bought, skip to step #7. I prefer to use a pizza stone, but it isn’t required. If you choose to use a standard baking sheet, it doesn’t have to be placed inside your oven in advance. If using a pizza stone, place in the oven prior to preheating.
• Preheat the oven to 500°F if using a pizza stone (450°F if using a baking sheet).
• In a large mixing bowl, combine water, yeast and honey. Let it sit and rest for about 10 minutes until it foams.
• Stir in the flour and salt to the yeast mixture. Stir until the dough comes together. I usually use my hands for this step. If your dough is still sticky, add very small amount of flour (no more than 1 tsp) at a time until it is no longer sticky. Be careful because adding too much flour can make it tough.
• On a large piece of parchment paper, knead the dough a couple of times and then allow it to rest 10-15 more minutes. This will keep it from springing back when you try to roll it out.
• Roll the dough out. I prefer a thin crust in this recipe (and for my pizza), but if you prefer a thicker crust, you can leave it a little thicker at this point.
• Using the parchment paper, transfer the dough to the pizza stone (or baking sheet).
• Bake in the oven for 4 minutes (you’ll need more time for a thicker crust). You’re not looking to have a fully baked crust at this point. Remove from the oven.
• Turn your oven down to 400°F.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine your pumpkin spread ingredients.
• Spread your pumpkin mixture over the crust. I recommend leaving a small border of naked crust around the edges to make it easier to grab when eating.
• Next, make the streusel topping. Combine the flour, brown sugar, and ground cinnamon.
• Add the small pieces of butter and combine. Cut the butter into the flour mixture until you reach a sand like consistency.
• Sprinkle the streusel topping over the pumpkin spread of your pizza.
• Return the pizza to the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
• While the pizza is cooking, make your drizzle.
• Mix together your cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and milk. Add just enough milk to make it thick but runny. You want to be able to drizzle it.
• Remove the pizza from the oven and drizzle the cream cheese topping while it's still hot.
• Allow it to cool about 5-10 minutes before slicing to be sure it stays together. Serve up and enjoy!

Tips and Tricks

• If you don't want to make your own pizza dough, you can use store bought.
• To keep the pumpkin spread flavor the star of the show, I recommend keeping your crust thin rather than thick.
• When it comes to making the crust, it's so important to wait until your yeast mixture foams. If your mixture doesn't foam, it means your yeast is bad.

FAQs

Can I use my own pizza crust? Yes you can. You can use a store bought dough, or even a premade entire crust if you prefer. I just recommend you go with a thin style crust so that it doesn't over power your pumpkin flavor.

Can I use pumpkin pie spice in place of the cinnamon, ginger, and clove for the pumpkin spread? Yes. I opted to go with cinnamon and cloves because pumpkin pie spice isn't always easy to find.

Alterations for picky eaters

• Stick with a crust you know they'll love. Whether that's thick or thin, go with it.
• If they aren't really big on pumpkin flavor, they may not like this, but you can always try a little more brown sugar and spreading the pumpkin thinner.

Alterations to lower calories or WW points

• Use two ingredient dough! In the WW world, it is the go-to pizza dough. There's also a yeast version out there that people love and you can go with that too if you want.
• Use a sugar substitute. Whether that's monk fruit sweetener or something like Swerve, you can make the swaps where you'd like to lower the calories and points.
• You can use a light or fat free cream cheese for the drizzle.
• Use a lower calorie butter substitute for the streusel topping, it'll still work fine.
• Use fat free or unsweetened almond milk in the drizzle.

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• Pumpkin Spice No-Churn Ice Cream
• Apple Cider Cupcakes with Cinnamon Sugar Buttercream
• Loaded Apple Pie Squares

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