This low carb recipe is a keto pizza crust made with mozzarella cheese, cream cheese, and almond flour. It turns out to be a delicious, crispy crust recipe that is easy adapt with flavoring, a great way to enjoy pizza cravings on the low carb lifestyle.
❤️ Why you'll love it
Best Keto Pizza Crust Recipe: this homemade pizza crust is perfect addition to pizza night as a low carb or keto option.
Almond Flour Pizza Crust: this keto pizza dough is made with almond flour and has only 4 net carbs per serving (¼ of a pizza crust).
Easy Recipe: this is a very easy pizza crust recipe that has no rise time compared to regular pizza dough.
🥘 Ingredients
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Mozzarella Cheese: I usually buy part-skim shredded mozzarella cheese for this fathead dough.
Cream Cheese: use full fat cream cheese for best results.
Almond Flour
Large Eggs
Garlic Powder
Onion Powder
Italian Seasoning
🔪 Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Place cream cheese and mozzarella cheese in a large microwave safe mixing bowl and heat on high for 60 seconds. Remove cheese mixture from microwave and stir. Return to microwave and cook another 30 seconds. Stir until well combined.
- Add the almond flour, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, and egg and stir until almond flour is well incorporated into cheese. If mixture becomes too sticky, microwave another 10-15 seconds to warm up.
- Place the ball of dough on between two pieces of parchment paper and using a rolling pin, roll dough out thin. Place parchment paper on a large cookie sheet and remove the top layer of parchment paper.
- Poke holes over the entire surface of the dough with tines of fork. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove keto crust from oven and turn over so bottom of crust becomes the top. removing the paper from the crust. Bake another 10 minutes
- Remove from oven and top with desired pizza sauce and pizza toppings.
- Return to oven and bake another 10 minutes, until toppings are hot and cheese is golden brown.
🥄 Equipment
Microwave safe mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Microwave
Parchment paper
Rolling pin
Large cookie sheet
Fork
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: Store pizza crust in an airtight container up to 4 days.
Freezer: this is a great recipe to make ahead and freeze. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and store in freezer up to 3 months.
Reheat: heat thawed pizza crust in oven with toppings and cheese at 400 degrees until toppings are hot and cheese has melted and starts to turn golden brown.
📖 Variations
- Eliminate the herbs and seasonings for an unflavored pizza crust.
- Make breadsticks with the keto pizza dough and lightly brush with garlic butter and sprinkle with shredded mozzarella cheese
💭 Tips
- If you find your dough is getting hard to mix, place the mixing bowl back in the microwave and heat it another 15-30 seconds, until the cheese is soft enough to continue stirring the almond flour ingredients in.
- When rolling out the fathead dough, place a non-adhesive shelf liner under the cookie sheet to prevent it from sliding across your table when rolling.
- If your dough sticks to your hands or rolling pin, you can use cooking spray or dampen your hands with water to help prevent sticking
- Pre bake the pizza crust and freeze it up to 3 months. When ready to use, just remove from the freezer, assemble with toppings, and bake.
What is low carb pizza crust recipe made with?
This recipe is made with part-skimmed mozzarella cheese, cream cheese, almond flour, and egg. There are optional seasonings added to the crust to give it a little bit of flavoring.
Is low carb pizza crust thick and chewy?
Unfortunately, low carb pizza is lacking the gluten from flour. The gluten is what gives pizza its yeasty, doughy texture. This recipe will not be soft and doughy like a regular pizza crust. Rather it will be more like a crispy thin crust pizza.
Can I pick the pizza slice up with my hands to eat?
Low carb pizza crust is not as sturdy as one made with regular flour. However, once the pizza has cooled slightly, you can still consume it by using your hands.
What does low carb pizza crust taste like?
This low carb pizza crust is similar to a thin crust pizza. It has a flavor closer to pizza crust due to the almond flour in the dough.
📚 Related Recipes
Meatball Pizza with Alfredo Sauce and Arugula is a delicious recipe made with keto pizza crust.
Another great recipe to use keto pizza crust with is this Easy Barbecue Chicken Pizza.
If carbs don't matter and you want quick and easy, try this Easy BBQ Chicken Naan Pizza recipe.
This Homemade Pasta Sauce made with canned tomatoes is a great way to top your homemade pizzas.
🍽 Serve with..
Serve pizza crust topped with your favorite pizza sauce, cheese, and pizza toppings. Drizzle pizza with ranch dressing or serve with a side of ranch for dipping.
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📖 Recipe
Keto Pizza Crust
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Ingredients
- 1½ cups part skim mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 ounces cream cheese
- ¾ cup almond flour
- ½ teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- 1 large egg whisked
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Place cream cheese and mozzarella cheese in a large microwave safe mixing bowl and heat on high for 60 seconds. Remove cheese mixture from microwave and stir. Return to microwave and cook another 30 seconds. Stir until well combined.
- Add the almond flour, salt, onion powder, garlic powder, and egg and stir until almond flour is well incorporated into cheese. If mixture becomes too sticky, microwave another 10-15 seconds to warm up.
- Place the ball of dough on between two pieces of parchment paper and using a rolling pin, roll dough out thin. Place parchment paper on a large cookie sheet and remove the top layer of parchment paper.
- Poke holes over the entire surface of the dough with tines of fork. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove keto crust from oven and turn over so bottom of crust becomes the top. removing the paper from the crust. Bake another 10 minutes
- Remove from oven and top with desired pizza sauce and pizza toppings.
- Return to oven and bake another 10 minutes, until toppings are hot and cheese is golden brown.
Anne Lawton
I've been looking for a homemade low carb pizza crust that's not made with cauliflower because my family doesn't like cauliflower! I'm going to give this a try soon!
Shelby Law Ruttan
Hi Anne, thanks for stopping by! This is my go to low carb crust now, the only one I ever make. I hope you enjoy it!
AndreA
Is 6 g carbs for the entire crust or for a slice
Shelby Law Ruttan
Hello, it is 6 carbs (4 net carbs) per serving. There are 4 servings. Thank you!
Debbie White
This crust is awesome. We loved it and will be keeping the recipe. Thank you for sharing.
Shelby Law Ruttan
Hi Debbie, thanks for sharing! Shelby
Steve
Hands down the best keto pizza crust ever it came out perfect and tasted as good as it could for being Keto I saved the recipe and passed it on has several people I know are on the Atkins diet