Easy Pizza Bake — Skip takeout and make your own warm and cheesy deep dish pizza bake! Fast, easy, and ready in 30 minutes! It’s a keeper everyone loves!!
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If there’s ever a meal that everyone in the family can agree upon, it’s pizza. Warm, cheesy, gooey, and so good. Rather than just another average pizza night, I jazzed things up with this fast, easy, one-bowl pizza bake.
I love how fast and easy it is, that it’s ready and on the table in 30 minutes, and so family-friendly.
My family went to town on it and I even heard, “This is one of the best things you’ve ever made.”
Funny that it’s usually the super easy shortcut recipes that gets the highest praise and not the ones I slave over. What we didn’t eat that night was perfect for lunches the next day.
This is easy comfort food at its finest that you can pull off any day of the week, even on a Monday.
For other great dinner and dessert ideas check out these Impossibly Easy Mexican Mini Veggie Pies with these Mexican-Spiced Fudge Brownies. Pairing easy dinners with simple yet impressive desserts that you can make in no time is the name of the game.
Recipe Ingredients
The ingredients list for this pepperoni pizza bake is short and simple:
- Bisquick Mix
- Milk (any kind)
- Pizza sauce
- Pepperoni
- Shredded mozzarella cheese
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Pizza Bake
- Make the stir-together dough; I used Original Bisquick™ Mix. It takes about 1 minute to stir it together and it’s such a great shortcut rather than making your own pizza dough.
- Place the dough in a baking pan and topped with layers of pizza sauce, pepperoni, and cheese.
- Bake the Bisquick pizza bake until lightly golden brown, or until the biscuits are cooked and the cheese is bubbly in center.
Recipe FAQs
Of course! You can customize this pizza bake as you see fit. If using sausage instead of pepperoni, make sure to cook it first in a skillet and drain off any excess fat. If using veggies, sauté them first until slightly softened.
No, this Bisquick pizza bake is best enjoyed fresh from the oven.
I’ve only made this recipe as written, so I can’t speak to whether another baking mix will work besides Bisquick.
This recipe makes an 8×8-inch baking dish. You can easily double the recipe and bake it in a 9×13-inch pan, if desired.
Storage Instructions
In the fridge: Store in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
In the freezer: Seal in a zip-top bag and freeze for up to 3 months.
To reheat: Warm slices for 30-second bursts in the microwave.
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Easy Pizza Bake
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups Original Bisquick™ Mix
- ½ cup milk, almond, cashew, soy, or regular
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 4 ounces sliced pepperoni
- 4 ounces about 1 cup finely shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F and line an 8×8-inch baking pan with aluminum foil, spray with cooking spray; set aside.
- To a medium bowl, add the Bisquick mix, milk, and stir until soft dough forms.
- Drop half of the dough by spoonfuls or your fingers in bottom of baking dish. Dough will not completely cover bottom of pan.
- Drizzle about 1/2 cup pizza sauce over dough.
- Arrange half the pepperoni slices evenly over sauce.
- Top with 1/2 cup cheese.
- Repeat layers with the remaining dough, pizza sauce, pepperoni, and cheese.
- Bake for 20 to 23 minutes or until lightly golden brown, biscuits are cooked in center and cheese is bubbly in center. Serve immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Do you have any nutritional information for this recipe? Can’t wait for my kiddos to try this. Been looking for a twist on our usual Friday night home-made pizza so this will be perfect to switch it up a bit! :)
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Jon’s eyes lit up when I asked him if he wanted me to make pizza tonight. I customized it–pepperoni for him and Beyond Meat crumbles for me. He liked the vegetarian half–I might be nice and let him finish it tomorrow. This was much easier than a traditional pizza and every bit as good!
Love that you worked in the Beyond Meat crumbles and sounds like he kind o preferred that half to the real pepperoni half! Love stories like that :) And so glad this was easier than a traditional pizza and every bit as good for you!
I want to make this but i am confused in coloum YIELD section only one 8×8 pan pizza is mentioned but in instructions it is mentioned to use half dough,so will it make TWO 8×8 pan pizza or ONE?
Thanks.
Please re-read the directions, especially step 7. The recipe makes one 8×8 pan of pizza.
Hi. Would I be able to substitute sausage for the pepperoni? Any suggestions? Thank you so much.
Yes I’m sure that would be fine. Enjoy!
I needed something quick and easy for dinner tonight and this was it! Very tasty. The biscuit portion baked up fluffier than I thought it would–yum. I think this would be a great recipe for my kids to make.
Thanks for trying the recipe and I’m glad it came in handy for you and yes, the biscuit portion really PUFFS! I made another recipe coming up with Bisquick and holy puffage :) Glad that this was an easy dinner for you!
When I was a kid, Hamburger Helper made a pizza bake that I loooooooved. This made me think of that…I’ll have to make this and see if it’s similar (I’m sure that it’s better)!
This looks so good! I have always used bisquick as an easy pizza crust! I like how this is deep dish though. Sometimes we just use bread and make mini pizzas when we are especially lazy :)
Looks better than dominoes or little caesars or pizza hut or all of them combined! It’s a deep dish of love, that’s what it is ;) xoxo
This looks beyond delicious. And easy recipes are my fav! I will have to try this for my family’s friday pizza night.