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This apple butter pizza with blue cheese and pancetta is the perfect addition to your weeknight menu. It’s sweet, savory and oh so delicious. Plus it’s ready in just 30 minutes!
Homemade Pizza is Easy!
Can we talk about how much I freaking love pizza?
I love making it with red sauce or a simple olive oil sauce. Sometimes it’s a deep dish and sometimes I spread it super thin to create a perfectly crisp, but slightly chewy crust.
If you fear a homemade pizza recipe, you need to stop all the worrying right now. It’s beyond easy to find fresh pizza dough at the store and all you do is spread it out, top it with deliciousness and give it a bake.
Seriously, it takes just about 30 minutes from start to finish to make homemade pizza.
How to Use Apple Butter on Pizza
You wanna know what’s in this beautiful pizza?
Instead of a traditional sauce, I decided to use Musselman’s apple butter. Yep, apple butter.
I have been finding so many amazing apple butter uses lately! For this pizza recipe, the apple butter brings a nice, sweet flavor that’s unique and delicious.
I wondered, what cheese does apple butter go with? After some experimenting, I found that a strong blue cheese and salty pancetta are the perfect match.
Toss some arugula on top to bring in a fresh element with a pop of peppery flavor.
Ingredients You’ll Need
Here’s what you’ll need to make this apple butter pizza, but it’s totally customizable, so feel free to add any other toppings you like!
- 1 pound pizza dough
- 1/2 cup apple butter
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1/2 apple, thinly sliced
- 4 ounces cubed pancetta, lightly browned
- 1/2 cup blue cheese, divided
- 1 cup arugula
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
How to Make Apple Butter Pizza
This 30-minute meal is perfect for any night of the week. Start by preheating your oven to 425 degrees F and lining a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat liner. You can also use a round pizza pan or pizza stone.
Stretch out the dough until it’s almost the size of the pan. Tip: If you let your dough rest at room temperature for a few hours it’s easier to stretch.
Spread the apple butter on the dough, then top with mozzarella and blue cheeses, apple slices, and pancetta.
Bake for about 18-20 minutes.
While the pizza is cooking, toss the arugula with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. When the pizza dough is cooked and the top is browned, remove from the oven and top with the arugula and more blue cheese.
Cool slightly to allow the cheese to set, then cut into slices and enjoy!
Love this apple butter pizza recipe? Why not try a few of my other tasty pizza recipes!
- Smoked Mozzarella Pizza
- Asparagus Mushroom Burrata Pizza
- Sausage Broccoli Rabe Skillet Pizza
- Smoked Mozzarella BBQ Chicken French Bread Pizza
- Fig Caramelized Onion Pizza
- Grilled Chicken Sausage Pizza
- Beef Puttanesca Pizza
- BBQ Hawaiian Pizza
- Zucchini Corn Feta Pizza
- Roasted Garlic Chicken Pizza
Apple Butter Pizza with Blue Cheese and Pancetta
Ingredients
- 1 pound pizza dough
- 1/2 cup apple butter
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, divided
- 1/2 apple, thinly sliced
- 4 ounces cubed pancetta, lightly browned
- 1/2 cup blue cheese, divided
- 1 cup arugula
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or Silpat liner.
- Stretch out the dough until it’s almost the size of the pan. (If you let your dough rest at room temperature for a few hours it’s easier to stretch)
- Top with apple butter, 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, apple slices pancetta, 1/4 cup blue cheese, and remaining 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Bake for about 18-20 minutes until the dough is cooked and pizza is browned on top.
- While the pizza is cooking toss arugula with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.
- When the pizza is fully cooked remove from the oven, top with arugula, and remaining blue cheese.
- Let cool slightly and cut into slices.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I need to try this apple butter on pizza thing but mostly because I want an excuse to eat copious amounts of pancetta 😉
Wow, apple butter on a pizza? What a fabulous idea Brandy!
I should not be looking at food when I’m this hungry. I want to eat my computer (okay not really but you get the point) 😉 I want this now!
Mmmm! I enjoy something similar with caramelized onion on homemade flatbread. Your shots are so good! Makes me want to eat it all!
I love fruit with cheese in pretty much any combination – but apple and blue is for sure one of the best – this is seriously one gorgeous pizza, and will be added to our Friday night rotation
Yum! Your photos are always so gorgeous! This pizza sounds amazing!!! So hungry!
You are killing it with the pizza lately Brandy! Love the apple butter, blue cheese, pancetta combo on this one. Adding this beauty to one of my upcoming pizza Friday/Netflix binges!
This pizza looks like it hits all the flavors–savory, sweet, tangy, and I LOVE the greens on top! So pretty!
Apple butter and blue cheese – a genius combo of that sweet and salty thing that is so FABULOUS! This is one pretty pizza. 🙂
I. LOVE. PIZZA. Like, I want it every day. I’m always looking for new flavors to try, and I’m totally digging the apple butter and blue cheese combo here!