This caramel apple dessert pizza is one of those recipes that will make your eyes light up with the first bite. It’s just so so good! With a pillowy soft and easy-to-make pizza dough, tender spiced apples, sweet oat crumble, and a drizzle of homemade caramel sauce, it’s an absolute show stopper that might make you rethink baking that apple pie.
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This pizza dough is ready to bake in less than 30 minutes and is SO easy to make. Ten minutes of that time is just allowing the dough to rest and rise which happens super fast using Fleischmann’s RapidRise® Yeast. It makes yeast baking SO quick and it just never fails. It’s the only yeast I ever bake with.
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Once the dough has rested, it’s time to press it into a pizza pie. Do so on a sheet of parchment paper lightly dusted with flour. This prevents the dough from sticking and also makes it easier to slice later on.
If you can, use a pizza pan with holes on the bottom. This gives you a golden crust that’s baked all the way through. If you don’t have one, your pizza will have to bake for a few extra minutes.
Place the dough into the center of the parchment paper. Press it down with your fingers while also spreading it out to the edges. This will be easy at first, but become a little bit more difficult as the dough stretches. If it’s really giving you a hard time, leave it alone for a couple minutes then come back to it.
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Once shaped, you should have a 12-13 inch round that is thinner in the center and thicker on the edges. Careful not to make it too thick, otherwise the center won’t bake through.
While you make your pizza dough, your apples will be off to the side in a bowl of sugar and lemon juice. This is a process called macerating where the sugar draws out the apple juices, preventing the pizza from getting too soggy when baked. The lemon juice is used to prevent browning.
So, it’s important to prep the apples BEFORE making the dough. Peel and thinly slice 3 Granny Smith apples. They should be fairly thin, but not paper thin – about 1/8-1/16 inch thickness.
Caramel Apple Dessert Pizza
Place them into a colander resting inside a bowl. Toss in sugar and lemon juice and allow them to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. By the end, there should be a small pool of juices at the bottom of the bowl.
During the 10 minute rest period for the pizza dough, make the apple filling. This consists of butter, flour, apple cider, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and spices.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and let it cook for about a minute, continuing to whisk. Pour in the apple cider and quickly whisk it in – the mixture should turn into an apple sauce consistency. Lastly, pour in the sugars and spices and REALLY whisk it. It’ll be a little clumpy but keep whisking and you should reach a thick caramel consistency.
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Pour the filling over the apples and toss to coat. Arrange the apple slices as seen in the picture above. You may be left with a few extra slices leftover so there’s no need to use every last bit of the apples.
This is the ONLY caramel recipe I ever use. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it never fails. As long as you follow these tips yours will turn out perfect every time:
There you have it! It’s such a versatile caramel recipe that I’ve used in SO many desserts. It starts out thin, but the longer you chill it the thicker it gets. The thin caramel is perfect for soaking into cakes (or drizzling on dessert pizza) and the thicker consistency is great for adding caramel drips or a thick caramel coating on top of a dessert – like my salted caramel cheesecake.
Caramel Apple Dessert Pizza With Cinnamon Streusel
When your pizza dough is shaped, apples are layered on top, and the oat crumble is sprinkled all over, it’s time to bake!
Because we’re working with pizza dough, this pizza bakes at a high temperature of 425F. This ensures the center bakes through, while also completely baking the apples and crumble on top – leaving you with perfectly tender apples and a soft and light pizza crust.
Like I mentioned earlier, a pizza pan with holes on the bottom is ideal for this recipe but it will not make or break it.
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Bake for 20-25 minutes until the edges are golden brown and puffed up. The very tips of a few of the apples around the edges might darken but that’s perfectly fine.
By this time, the caramel sauce should be the perfect consistency since it’s been chilling in the fridge. Allow the pizza to cool for about 10 minutes (just like regular pizza) then drizzle and slice!
Because there’s a lot going on with the toppings, it’s best to slice the pizza with a large knife rather than a pizza cutter. This keeps all the apples in place so each slice has an equal amount of toppings.
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It’s very similar to regular pizza as it’s best when served FRESH. It’s warm, soft, and the caramel on top is glossy and smooth.
If you have leftovers, it’s kind of like having leftover pizza. It will still be good, if you’re into day old pizza (and I am so down with cold pizza).
Store in a container in the fridge and reheat in the oven. Bake at 350F for about 5-10 minutes until warm. Bake on a baking sheet lined with foil for the best results.
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This is the ULTIMATE apple dessert pizza. With a pillowy soft crust, tender spiced apples, sweet oat crumble, and a caramel drizzle on top, it’s easily one of the best apple desserts you’ll ever make.
I’m the creator, baker, and photographer behind Butternut Bakery. Here I share desserts for every diet because I believe everyone should have a chance to indulge!Here is yet another fall favorite for you. If it’s not the juicy, crunchy apple slices on top—it’s the caramel infused cream cheese frosting. Or the toasted walnuts. Or maybe even the SNICKERDOODLE cookie crust.
Honeycrisp Caramel Apple Pizza
There are 5 simple parts to today’s pizza: cookie crust, caramel cream cheese frosting, apples, caramel sauce, and toasted walnuts.The recipe begins with a snickerdoodle cookie crust. So, basically, a very very huge pizza-size snickerdoodle cookie. So right off the bat, you know it’s going to be GOOD. When I first made this dessert pizza, I prepared it with a regular sugar cookie crust. Tasty? Of course. But the addition of cinnamon just turns everything up a notch.
The caramel cream cheese frosting is the pizza sauce. I’m definitely the weird one because sauce is my favorite part about pizza. In fact, I order extra sauce on the side. (nickname: condiment queen.) And since caramel cream cheese frosting is approximately 878394% better than tomato sauce, I went heavy on the dessert pizza’s sauce. The more caramel cream cheese frosting, the better. Slather it on!!
Apples are next. Use a variety like honeycrisp, granny smith, gala, fuji, or piñata. Hey, have you ever had a Piñata apple before? Ever see them at the store? They’re so sweet. Taste like candy. So naturally, I love them.
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Now, the caramel drizzle on top. Absolutely an unnecessary layer of indulgence… or is it? I lied. It’s definitely necessary. Caramel is always necessary. Use my homemade salted caramelor store-bought. Both fantastic.
And finally! The 5th and final piece o’ this pizza is…. toasted walnuts. Oh how I love them! I didn’t toast the walnuts the first time I made this pizza, but decided to get a little fancy the second time around. Definitely toast them! Truly brings out their flavor.
You haven’t had pizza until you’ve had apple dessert pizza with caramel cream cheese frosting. And let me just remind you that the pizza crust is a snickerdoodle cookie. The end.
Caramel Apple Pizza
You haven’t had pizza until you’ve had apple dessert pizza with caramel cream cheese frosting! Quite possibly the best pizza on the planet.
Sally McKenney is a professional food photographer, cookbook author, and baker. Her kitchen-tested recipes and thorough step-by-step tutorials give readers the knowledge and confidence to bake from scratch. Sally has been featured onGrab a bag of apples on your next shopping trip because you’re going to want to make this warm caramel apple dessert pizza topped with a thick layer of gooey apples, brown sugar streusel, and drizzled with homemade caramel sauce.
While this pizza is often my first thought when I buy apples for baking, once I’m home, it can be a tough
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