How to Bake Pizza Bread

Pizza bread is a tasty alternative to traditional pizza. There are three ways to bake pizza bread when using a conventional oven or a bread machine. Use a loaf of French or Italian bread or frozen bread dough for oven baking. When using a bread machine, follow the bread making directions and add pizza ingredients, such as pepperoni.

Things You'll Need

• French or Italian bread
• Pizza or tomato sauce
• Spoon
• Foil
• Serrated knife
• ½ lb. shredded mozzarella cheese
• Italian sausages sliced (hot or mild)
• 1 can frozen bread dough
• Cookie sheet or loaf pan
• Large spoon
• Knife
• Italian sausages sliced (substitute with ½ lb. cooked ground beef)
• 3 ½ cups bread flour
• 1 pack of active dry yeast
• Pinch of salt or garlic salt
• 1 lb. sliced pepperoni
• 1 cup shredded mozzarella or cheddar cheese
• 1 ½ tbsp. butter melted or softened
• 1 ½ tbsp. white or brown sugar

Instructions

Bake Pizza Bread With French or Italian Bread

1. Cook Italian sausages according to package directions. Set aside with other ingredients such as sauce and cheese.

2. Cut the French or Italian bread horizontally about halfway through so that it opens partially as though hinged. Lay bread flat.

3. Spread the sauce along the cut bread surface and add sausage and cheese evenly.

4. Squeeze the bread shut like closing a sandwich and wrap the loaf in foil.

5. Bake it at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Unwrap the baked pizza bread and cut it into slices to serve.

Bake Pizza Bread With Frozen Bread Dough

1. Roll out the thawed bread dough to ¾ inch thick.

2. Cook additional pizza ingredients according to package directions and combine with sauce. Set aside along with the cheese.

3. Spoon the sauce mixture on the bread within an inch of the edge then cover with cheese.

4. Roll the bread up into a loaf and close the ends by pinching them. Make slices on top of the loaf. Let it rise for 15 minutes.

5. Put the loaf on a cookie sheet or in a loaf pan. Bake the pizza bread at 350 degrees F for about 40 minutes. Cut it into slices to serve.

Bake Pizza Bread in a Bread Machine

1. Put the ingredients in the bread machine pan. See the user guide for the suggested order to put in the ingredients.

2. Press the desired cycle such as "Bread/Light Crust" and then hit "Start."

3. Bake pizza bread between 45 minutes and an hour, then remove from machine, cut and serve.