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| Cinnamon Streusel Dessert Pizza |
It is no secret to anybody who knows me how much I love Godfather's Pizza's dessert pizza. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I remember begging my husband to drive an hour and a half south of our house to pick one up for me in 1 of the few remaining Godfather's Pizza's left in the state of Washington. When all of their restaurants within an hour of my house went out of business, I fell into the depths of despair and was quite certain that I would never taste it again.
Today, I solved my problem. I made it. It was identical to Godfather's Pizza. It was easy. It took 10 minutes to prepare. Oh, and it was BOMB.
1 TBSP butter, melted
Cinnamon
Streusel:
1/2 cup plus 1/3 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup white sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 TBSP vegetable shortening
2 TBSP olive oil *
Icing:
1 cup powdered sugarIcing:
1 TBSP milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla
DIRECTIONS:
Mix together streusel ingredients with a fork, or your clean hands, then side aside.
To make pizza, pat dough into a 12 inch pizza pan that has been sprayed with oil. Perforate pizza dough with a fork (this keeps bubbles from forming), then brush with 1 TBSP melted butter. Sprinkle cinnamon all around buttered crust. Top pizza crust with streusel mix.
Bake at 460 F for 8 to 9 minutes depending on the thickness of the pizza. Mix icing ingredients until it is of a drizzle consistency. If it is too thick, then thin with a small amount of milk until you have reached your desired thinness.
When finished baking, top with icing in a circular pinwheel pattern. Cut up and enjoy!
* I had a reader comment that she could taste the olive flavor in the olive oil. If you have a sensitive palate to this, you may want to try using vegetable or canola oil. I personally prefer olive oil, but use the 100% olive oil, as it has a very subtle olive flavor.
* I had a reader comment that she could taste the olive flavor in the olive oil. If you have a sensitive palate to this, you may want to try using vegetable or canola oil. I personally prefer olive oil, but use the 100% olive oil, as it has a very subtle olive flavor.
74 comments:
Oh my!! I LOVE dessert pizza, and had forgotten all about it! I can't wait to try this....apple cinnamon was my favourite at Pizza Hut's buffet! So, glad I found your blog!
I'm a dessert pizza junkie too. I love having this recipe in my back pocket now. :)
Oh my goodness, this is amazing! I didn't think I'd be able to find a recipe for this! The same thing has happened in Wisconsin too. The closest one to my home is over 2 hours away, but I just crave the taste of this delicious pizza! Thank you so much!
Yay! Glad I could help! :)
YUM! I used to love their dessert pizza... but all the stores around here closed when I was in high school. I will be making this soon! :D
This turned out soooo well!! I added my own twist to it by spreading some pumpkin pie filling on the crust and then topping it with streusel topping ....soooo yummy. Thanks for sharing!!
The pumpkin version sounds great, I will have to try that sometime!
Cherry pie filling (and apple filling) are AWESOME as well!!
For some reason this didn't turn out tasty for me at all. The olive oil stood out too much, yuck.
Jackie: Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it and I will add a note to the recipe. Olive oil does have a subtle taste. I use plain 100% olive oil when I use it in a baked item, not extra virgin, which tends to have a more "olivey" flavor. I'm sorry you didn't like it. I've made this dozens of times and have never had anybody comment on that standing out, it may be the brand/type you used, or if you try it again, you could try a less flavorful oil, like vegetable or canola.
it doesnt say directions for the strusel? mix everything?
Yes, just crumble the streusel ingredients all together with your clean hands.
Looks delicious! Reminds me of being a kid! I am going to try this tonight!
I hope it turned out well for you!
Do you think I could use butter instead of vegetable shortening in the streusel?
You could give it a try. Butter might result in a streusel that is a little more flat, but it should taste pretty close to the same. Let me know how it turns out!
Worked just fine with the butter, and looked exactly the way your photos looked, not flat or anything--thanks for the recipe!
That is great to know, and I'm so glad! Thank you for updating me!
I have been looking everywhere for a copycat recipe for Double Dave's Chocolate Chip Dessert Pizza--any ideas on that??
I had to google that, because we don't have a Double Dave's here in Seattle. Having never tasted it, I can only guess on it, and it looks like pizza crust, topped with chocolate chip cookie dough (sans the chocolate chips) and then topped with chocolate chips. My best advice is to buy those ingredients and start playing around with them. Good luck!
I am very excited to have this recipe. The nearest gf is 4 hours. Why? I too fell in the depths of despair to learn I may never taste my beloved bread and butter of pizzas again!
Amanda, you will be very pleased when you see how easy this is to make and how close it comes to the real thing! :)
i have made pizza crust out of a can of biscuits and it was deliciuos i also made noodles from flour, salt, and water and boiled it for a minute or two ; it was better than boxed noodles. i also made some chips from water, salt, and flour then i fryed it n veggie oil and that was delic.
'1 TBSP butter, melted cinnamon' ?? can you elaborate on the melted cinnamon part? I'm not understanding this part. How does one melt cinnamon??
I'm not sure if you're reading this from a phone or what, but no, the way I have the recipe written says "1 TBSP butter, melted" and then, on another line, the cinnamon, which is just a sprinkling. When you read on into the instructions, it tells tou to brush the melted butter over the crust and sprinkle it with cinnamon before you add the streusel onto the crust. You definitely don't melt any cinnamon. :) Hope that helps, thanks for visiting.
I doubled the icing and the pie is in the oven... You are A SAINT! I miss Godfather's so much. So glad I found this on pinterest, even almost a year after you wrote it :)
Thanks for visiting!
OMGSH this is great! :)
So glad you like it! Thanks for visiting!
This was excellent when we tried it the first time & I'm making it again tonight!!! :)
So glad you liked it, thanks for visiting!
Just made this with Crescent Rolls. Just use two 8-count tubes instead of the pizza dough. Really yummy!
Can someone please tell me what the 1st ingredient is for the streusel? It says 1/2 cup plus 1/3 cups all purpose flour... 1/2 cup what? I'm confused... please post and let me know. Thanks
Mimi, it's flour. 1/2 cup flour plus 1/3 cup flour. It's the only way to accurately measure it. Thanks for visiting and enjoy! --Shannon
Someone said this would be awesome with cherry filling as well which is what I'm looking for....how would you supposed I do that? Do the crust, then pie filling, with the stresuel on top? Thanks. I'm not a baker but its been requested in my house so....here I am! =)
Nicole-- I have not personally tried the cherry pie filling version, but if I were to try it, I would do just that. Spread it with the cherry pie filling, and then top with the streusel.
Although to be honest, I'm not sure how the mixture of the streusel and the cherries would taste. Apple pie filling combined makes more sense (flavor-wise) to me, but that's just a personal palate preference.
If I were going to do a cherry dessert pizza, I'd probably top it with a cream cheese filling and cherries. Something like this recipe: http://sorumblyinmytumbly.blogspot.com/2011/05/cherry-crescent-coffee-cake.html
Let me know what you did and how it turned out!
HAHAHAHA. .. that cracks me up that someone thought you said to melt the cinnamon. hahahah
and that SO many questions could just be answered if you read the WHOLE instructions. . . lol. .
I used to work at Godfathers Pizza and would make this all the time, you nailed it! It was my favorite. To make it cherry all you add is some cherry pie filling. I can't wait to make this again!!
im not sure that it will work for me, but this picture looks great!
Yay! Thanks for visiting (and for the cherry pie tips.)
Do you think I could make this, then freeze it for a later date?
Eh, maybe- I wouldn't really recommend. It only takes a few minutes to throw together, so I would personally make it fresh. Thanks for visiting!
What about using a sugar cookie dough for the pizza dough? too sweet?
Jenna- sounds WAY too sweet for me (and I like things sweet!) The streudel combined with the glaze is very sweet, you sort of need the buttery saltiness of the pizza dough. If you try it, let me know how you like it. Thanks for visiting!
Making this tonight for the fam! Thanks so much for posting the recipe! =)
Thanks for visiting, Heidi! Hope you liked it!
I just made this delicious looking pizza, however, I followed the directions exactly and the topping is so dry it's powdery. We had to be careful not to inhale while eating it. Any idea where we went wrong?
Kristy- Nope, have never had that issue. If it was like dust, I would have added a bit more shortening to make it like a streusel, but with the recipe as written, I have never had that happen.
We loved the pizza crust as a dessert, scrumptious! I thought it was dry when I put it on the crust but, waited for the magic that didn't happen. The flavors were great and I'm not giving up on it, will try again this weekend.
Glad you're going to give it another try. The streusel will bake exactly as you place it on the pizza, so if it's dry in the bowl, add some more fat! :) Hope you get a better result this time, I'd hate for you to miss out on this, it is one of my very favorite things. :) Thanks for visiting!
Fat is where it's at! Added a T at a time until it looked right. Thanks for letting me know that it bakes as it looks, I thought the shortening might melt and save the day, that's what I get for thinking. This time it turned out yummylicious! NOW it's a keeper.
I'm so glad it worked out and you were ale to enjoy it. :)
I used butter in place of the olive oil.
Great idea. :) Thanks for visiting!
I am so excited about this. I'm from Nevada and they had a Godfather's there when I was a kid but it went out of business about 10 years ago. I was so sad because I LOVED their dessert pizza. I actually think about it from time to time just reminiscing about the taste. I'm pathetic, what can I say. I am making this tonight and I am so excited to try it. Thanks.
I hope that you enjoyed it, Kyle! Thanks for the comment and for visiting!
I too remember the good ole Godfather's dessert pizza and I've yet to try another pizza chain's who good match it. Thanks for the recipe...hey could you recreate Godfather's Taco Pizza too? It was just as awesome too, remember?
Cando- Give me some time, but I promise I'll give it a try for you. :) Thanks for the comment and for visiting.
This is a great way to enjoy dessert I must say. I have long been tired of the usual fruits and some tarts I buy at the grocery store. Today, though, my eating habits will change. Thanks to your version of Godfather’s Pizza dessert. I will make this recipe tomorrow and see how enjoyable eating dessert can be for me.
Hope you enjoy, thanks for visiting!
Hope you enjoy, thanks for visiting!
I made this tonight for dessert along with the help of my husband (who was in charge of the streusell but he used an electric mixer so it turned into a dust but flavor was still delicious) and my 3 year old ran around our kitchen for a good 5 minutes screaming "this is soooo mummy" thanks from all of us also in Washington it is one of our favorites now :)
*nummy
So glad it was so nummy! :) Thanks for the comment and for visiting!
Who has a great piazza dough crust recipe I can make from scratch? Do I pre-bake a homemade crust first or not?
Here is my recipe for homemade pizza dough from scratch. You do not pre-bake any kind of crust when making this dessert pizza. :) Enjoy!
http://sorumblyinmytumbly.blogspot.com/2010/09/mushroom-garlic-pizza.html
I remember this pizza when I was a kid. I used to go to the GF's on Broadway with my mom and i'd just pig out and play the video games there. I will definitely try this out. this is a piece off my childhood right her! thanks so much for having the same love we have fo this pizza.
From one dessert pizza junkie to another- I hope you love it! Thanks for the comment!
Do you have to use pizza dough? Can you use cookie dough or something, so it's even more sweet?
Bayle- I do not think cookie dough would be good. I think it would be way too sweet. If you try it, let me know how it turns out! Thanks for the comment and for visiting!
Worked amazingly! Everyone in my house loved it. Instead of veg shortening i used 2 tablespoons of butter and left out the added 1/3 cup of flour for the struesel. It turned out sooo yummy!
So glad you liked it, Anonymous! Thanks for the comment!
I worked at Godfathers from the time I was 16 until about 24 ( as a second job then) but this really does taste a lot like it! We used the same concept buttered pizza dough and topped w strudel topping that we mixed cinnamon in from TPC. We also just used apple or cherry pie filling for fruit ones but did not use frosting on these we did a dusting of powdered sugar on fruit ones. I loved the way this turned out it was very good and my kiddos loved it! :) thank you
J Richardson- So glad to hear from a former Goddfather's Employee that this tastes authentic! :) Thanks for the comment and for visiting!
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