How to Make Delicious Peanut Butter Pizza – Yummy Dessert Pizza

This peanut butter pizza is a fun twist on dessert! This yummy dessert pizza comes together in just a few minutes with four ingredients.

This particular recipe is modeled off of the peanut butter cookie dessert pizza at our very favorite local pizza restaurant. Every time we visit, we can’t leave the building until the Hubs has has 1-2 slices of the peanut butter pizza with chocolate chips. It is the best!

If you have ever spent much time over on my first blog, The Gifted Gabber, you know we love to adapt or create recipes that are friendly for kids for eating and for cooking. This recipe makes for a perfect cooking with kids recipe. Speaking of cooking with kids, be sure to check out some of our other cooking with kids recipes – Chocolate Saltine Crackers and Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies. You can find others over on our other blog.

What is a Dessert Pizza?

If you have never had dessert pizza, you may be wondering what is a dessert pizza. It is basically a pie that uses a pizza crust rather than a pie crust. Often, you might find a fruit-based dessert pizza or a chocolate or peanut butter dessert pizza. For this peanut butter pizza recipe, view the ingredients in the following way. The crust is still the crust. The peanut butter layer is the pizza sauce. The chocolate chips are the pepperoni slices, and the confectioner’s sugar is the cheese.

You can easily make your own pizza crust at home if you have yeast. If not, a store-bought thin crust will do. For these particular pictures, I used Pillsbury roll-out crust. It actually rolls out to a rectangle, and I wanted a round crust. Because the stores are currently wiped out on crusts (and yeast and so many other things), I worked with what we could find. On this day, I had plenty of good light and plenty of times for finally taking some photos. Therefore, I forced the shape to go circular though it wasn’t perfect. No doubt, you can just as well have a rectangular pizza. It’s just that I wanted to make mine look like the one we get from our favorite pizza place.

How to Make Peanut Butter Pizza

My girls like to take turns smearing on the peanut butter layer. I pre-bake the crust for 6-8 minutes first. Once the peanut butter hits the warm crust, it starts to melt and spreads quite easily.

Next, the girls take turns dropping on the chocolate chips. I let each of them have their own side and work separately. If there is anything I have learned during these last five or so years of cooking with kids, it’s that taking turns is a sanity-saver for me.

Finally, they shake on the powdered sugar with this “magic fairy wand” shaker they got for Christmas. But if you don’t have a tool like this, you can easily just shake on the fine powdered sugar by hand – a little at a time. One key is to make sure some bigger, lumpy balls of powdered sugar also land on the pizza. For this reason, we do not sift the sugar ahead of time.

To finish, we pop the peanut butter pizza back in the oven for another two minutes or until the chocolate chips begin to melt.

This pizza dessert is such a fun way to get kids in the kitchen! Enjoy! If you are in the mood for a fruity dessert, try our lemon strawberry poke cake!