Ready to bring the heat to your next pizza night? This hot honey pizza is topped with pepperoni, hot peppers, shredded mozzarella, tangy goat cheese crumbles, and is finished with a glorious homemade hot honey drizzle.
Homemade hot honey pizza takes just a few minutes to make on a baking steel, and you can prep all the toppings, including the 5-minute pizza sauce, while the oven preheats!
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Hot Honey Spicy Sicilian Pizza
My first hot honey pizza experience was the bee sting pizza at Roberta's Culver City location in Los Angeles. We didn't even mean to order it; we were a large group and when the waitress dropped it off at our table we were several slices in and marveling at how good it was before we realized none of us had actually ordered it. (I regret nothing!)
The combination of sweet honey, crispy pizza dough, salty cheese, and spicy meat was a revelation. The flavors balanced each other out, the sweet, classic honey flavor smoothing over the slowly building heat with every bite.
In the years since that transformative hot honey pizza experience, I've gone to pastry school and honed my skills as a home pizza maker, baking up tons of unique pizza recipes. So you bet I've developed my own version of a hot honey pizza.
Hot Honey, Arugula & Pepperoni Pizza
Where Roberta's uses a plain honey on an otherwise hot pizza, I prefer to use an actual hot honey — a hot honey I make from scratch using Local Hive™ Honey's Clover Honey Blend, as will you when you make this recipe! (don't worry, it's easy!) — and I like to add tangy, crumbly goat cheese as well as fresh, thinly sliced Fresno peppers.
Instead of soppressata, I go for a classic pepperoni; it's a little more versatile especially if I'm making other types of pizza that night, and I use a shredded mozzarella instead of fresh because I prefer the way it melts.
If you're not sure if you can handle the heat of this hot honey pizza, there's no shame in that! It took me ages to build up a tolerance for even medium-mild heat, and I generally err on the side of more mild than truly hot when developing recipes.
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Why make your own hot honey? Store bought hot honeys often have added vinegar and things like that, and I don't love the flavor vinegar adds to them. I prefer flavor-based heat, not vinegar-based heat. Using a high quality honey with a robust flavor and flavoring it with dried chile peppers is the best way to do that.
Get to control how hot is is. I recommend anywhere from four to eight dried arbol chiles, but if you're really not sure, start by using just two, or even one the first time you make it.
Fun Fact: Clover plants are one of the most common wildflowers in the eastern half of the United States, and honeybees love them. With almost 300 species of clover, each bottle can have a slightly different flavor thanks to the different pollen profiles inside.
Detroit Style Hot Honey Pizza
Making hot honey from scratch is super simple — you're really just infusing honey with heat and flavor from some dried chiles.
That said, there are a few things you want to be careful of in the process to make sure you're preserving the quality, flavor, and consistency of the honey.
The first step is to crack the dried chile peppers into the pot. Toast them in a bare sauce pot just until you start to smell them. Stir frequently so they don't burn —just a minute or so!
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Add the honey to the toasted chile peppers over low-medium heat. When it starts to bubble around the edges, remove it from the heat and let it sit for at least 10 minutes to infuse.
Use a wire mesh strainer to strain the chile peppers out of the honey and into a jar or container. The honey will be more liquid at this stage, but will regain the syrupy honey consistency as it cools.
Let the honey cool for at least 20-30 minutes before drizzling it over the pizza. Just like when you make homemade hot sauce, it's hard to tell how hot the flavors are until it's cool.
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Pear Gorgonzola Pizza
I recommend making the hot honey while your baking steel is preheating. This will give you enough time to make the hot honey and let it cool; it will be ready just as the pizza is coming out of the oven!
You can also make this homemade hot honey in advance. Store it in an airtight container at room temperature and it will stay good for up to 6 months!
To get the signature bubbly crust and crispy bottom of this homemade supreme pizza, you'll want to hand stretch your pizza dough.
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Pre-shaping before you stretch is key to getting a perfectly round pizza dough.I've written all about how to do this in myguide to hand stretching pizza doughso head there for more detail.
As always, make sure you use plenty of flour, let gravity do most of the work, and always stretch on the backs of your hands so that you don't poke through the dough!
If at any time the dough seems like it's going to tear or it's fighting you and doesn't want to stretch, let it rest for a few minutes (even just 60 seconds!) on the counter.
Pepperoni And Pineapple Pizza With Hot Honey
Why semolina flour?Semolina flour is coarser and rounder than all purpose flour and will help your pizza slide off the peel and onto the baking steel easily. This is a tip I picked up from Andris, the founder of the Baking Steel company. He uses a 50/50 blend of all purpose and semolina flours, but I find I prefer just the semolina.
You start stretching the pizza dough. Dust your pizza peel with semolina flour (or use parchment paper) to make sure the pizza dough can slide off it easily.
Once your pizza dough is stretched, work quickly and efficiently to get it on the pizza peel and add the toppings so that the dough doesn't have time to stick to the peel.
Newk's: Hot Honey Italian Pizza Recipe
Why do you spread pizza sauce with the back of a spoon?The curved back of the spoon glides gently over the delicate pizza dough. Because the edges of the spoon are curved away from the dough, they won't catch or tear it the way a knife or spatula would!
Don't go overboard with the goat cheese — even with the crumbles, too much goat cheese will turn the top of your pizza into a soup!
Finish by covering your hot honey pizza with a medium-to-generous dusting of finely grated Pecorino Romano or parmesan cheeses. Pecorino Romano is my favorite, but parmesan works too.
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Pro-tip: Get some of that finishing cheese on the crust, too! It's so delicate it melts right onto the thin crust and gives it a really nice flavor.
Once your hot honey pizza is loaded up with toppings, give it a little shimmy back and forth on the pizza peel to make sure it isn't stuck.If any parts seem to be sticking, carefully lift them up and dust additional semolina flour underneath.
To finish, broil the pizza for 1-2 minutes, until the cheese and crust are as browned as you like. Then remove from the oven with the peel.
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Note:Broilers are VERY hot and their power can vary widely from oven to oven. Once you switch to broiling, check on your pizza every 30 seconds to make sure it doesn't burn!
Every oven is different, but pizza does cook quickly —after the first 5 minutes on the steel, the pizza dough will be cooked through.
What you're really looking at to determine if it's done is the browning on the crust and cheese. Some of that comes down to personal preference!
Hot Honey Pizza With Prosciutto And Ricotta
As soon as the pizza comes out of the oven, top with thinly sliced fresh basil and drizzle generously with your homemade hot honey.
Why do we put fresh basil on pizza after baking? To prevent the leaves from oxidizing and absorbing oil in the oven so they stay fresh and green!
The best thing about making any type of pizza is you can really customize the toppings to suit your personal preference. Here's some suggestions for how you might adjust this hot honey pizza!
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Because of all the toppings, homemade hot honey pizza is best same day, eaten as soon as possible after it comes out of the oven. (Don't burn your mouth!)
That said, you can wrap any leftover hot honey pizza slices in foil or plastic wrap and store them in the fridge for about 3-4 days.
Reheat day-old or cold pizza in a dry skillet over medium heat, or on a foil-lined baking sheet in the oven at 350F for 10-15 minutes (or until the cheese is melted again). Keep an eye on it — the honey has sugar in it, you don't want it to burn!
Detroit Style Pepperoni Pizza With Hot Honey And Goat Cheese
I haven't tested any other methods, so can't tell you precisely how to do this. There are plenty of
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