This Cinnamon Pizza is inspired by the dessert pizza served at pizza restaurants. But it’s even better because you make it yourself!
My kids are fond of any kind of pizza, but of course they are crazy about pizza served for dessert! We are also fond of apple pie pizza, and strawberry nutella pizza.
My kids are always begging us to get dessert pizza when we order delivery. But after forking out all the cash for pizza, I don’t want to spend more on dessert. Especially when I know I can make it for a fraction of the cost!
I like to make my own crust, but even if you buy pizza dough, you will still save a lotta dough. Haha, get it? Plus with purchased dough the prep time is like five minutes.
When I made this for my family, I doubled the recipe. Because let’s face it. When you have a soft and chewy crust topped with a heavy dose of cinnamon sugar crumbs, then topped with glaze, one slice isn’t enough. Especially if you are a teenage boy. Which we have plenty of at my house.
And even with the double recipe, there were no leftovers. Crumbs were happily licked from fingers, and plates were left spotless. In other words, this cinnamon pizza was a huge hit. If you don’t have teenage boys, stick with one batch. Unless you have a really stretchy pair of yoga pants. 🙂
We had this for dessert, but if you like to live on the wild side, you can totally have it for breakfast. Or lunch. Or whatever time of day you need a sweet and tasty little pick me up.
HOW TO MAKE CINNAMON PIZZA
Ingredients needed:
- instant yeast (I use SAF yeast)
- sugar
- hot water
- milk
- salt
- oil (I use vegetable or canola oil)
- all purpose flour
- brown sugar
- ground cinnamon
- butter
- powdered sugar
- vanilla
The crust for this pizza is just a simple yeast dough. After it’s prepared, it only needs to rest for 15 minutes before it’s ready to roll out. I like to just use my hands to press it out into a 12″ circle on a greased baking pan.
You make a simple crumb topping with flour, sugar, cinnamon, and butter, then sprinkle it on top of the crust. After baking up the dessert pizza, you drizzle it with vanilla icing. Easy and delicious!
HOW TO STORE CINNAMON DESSERT PIZZA
This dessert is definitely best served warm from the oven, but it can be stored for a day or two. Just place it in an airtight container and store it at room temperature. The cinnamon topping will start to soften up, so I really do recommend eating it while it’s fresh.
More scrumptious cinnamon sugar recipes:
- Baked Cinnamon Sugar Donuts
- Cinnamon Sugar Donut Muffins
- Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Cake
- Double Cinnamon Snickerdoodles
- Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
- Gooey Cinnamon Rolls
- Cinnamon Roasted Almonds
MORE DESSERT RECIPES:
Cinnamon Dessert Pizza Recipe
Cinnamon Crumb Dessert Pizza
Ingredients
Dough
- 1 tsp instant yeast
- 1 ½ Tbsp sugar
- 2 Tbsp hot water
- ⅓ cup milk warmed
- ¼ tsp salt
- 2 Tbsp oil
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour more or less
Cinnamon Crumb Topping
- 1 cup flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ cup butter softened
Icing
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 1 Tbsp milk more or less
Instructions
- For dough: Combine yeast, sugar, hot water, and warm milk in a mixing bowl. Stir till yeast dissolves. Add salt and oil. Stir in one cup of the flour and mix well.
- Add enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Knead a few times on a floured counter. Return to the bowl, cover, and let rest 15 minutes.
- Roll or press out to a 12" circle on a lightly greased cookie sheet or pizza pan.
- For crumb mixture: Combine all ingredients in a small bowl and mix together till crumbly. I just use my hands. Sprinkle crumbs evenly over the crust.
- Bake at 375° for 15-20 minutes or till crust is light brown.
- Whisk together the icing ingredients and drizzle over the pizza. I like to put mine in a small ziplock bag and snip the corner to drizzle.
Nutrition
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can this pizza crust be used for regular thin crust pizza too. thank you
You could definitely use it for regular pizza! I recommend decreasing the sugar to a teaspoon or so because the dough is sweeter than regular pizza crust.
This recipe didn’t turn out well for me. Unfortunately mine did not look like this at all.
So sorry you had trouble, I know that’s frustrating. 🙁
The directions neglect to mention blind baking the crust for a while before baking the crumbs. My pizza turned into a doughy blob with liquid butter sugar on top. Not very presentable nor inviting.
Sorry yours didn’t turn out. I didn’t blind bake the crust first for this recipe. Maybe your oven cooks hotter on the top than mine does. When I want an extra crunchy crust, I use the bottom rack of mine. Maybe that would help next time?
I followed the topping directions to a T and I’m a fairly good cook. It looks nothing like your pictured pizza. Personally, it would be nice if you’d update us if you’ve recently tried this exact recipe since others have said what I’m saying. I like to use a recipe exactly and see the same results. No higher altitude, no unique flour, I’m a fairly boring, regular baker. It’s Literally powder topping. But I’ll enter my comment after we’ve tasted it. … Okay, sorry. Too many things didn’t turn out and it’s not just my preference vs another’s.
I’m glad your family liked it.
Thanks for the feedback. It’s been awhile since I made it, so maybe I need to try it again to see if it turns out the same way. Sorry you had trouble.
I had this experience as well, but it’s not just that it was dry, it didn’t taste like much either. =\
I wonder if I did something wrong in the way I mixed it because it didn’t really make clumps/crumbles either. Moreso just a sandy kind of powder. I could clump it together by squeezing a handful but when I tried crumbling that into smaller pieces, it just turned back into sand-like consistency.
Sorry you had trouble. Sounds like either your flour was too compacted, or maybe your butter wasn’t quite soft enough. And if you really like cinnamon, you could double it. My kids don’t like that, but I sure do. 🙂
Iused my tried and true homemade pizza crust and modified the topping …1/2 c flour, 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/2 c brown sugar , 6T softened butter , 1 tsp cinnamon, mix all together and put on crust bake .. top with frosting delicious!
Sounds tasty with the oats!
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Is the ratio of flour to sugar off in your ingredient list (1 cup flour, 1/3 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup sugar)? I tried this, and the topping didn’t turn out at all. Too much flour, I think.
The topping is more dry than most streusel toppings. It is actually pretty crumbly. But if you prefer, you can definitely add more butter!