This Chocolate Pizza recipe is every pizza lover’s dream. A savory pizza crust, smothered with chocolate, topped with fruit and drizzled with more chocolate.
Over the years, I have shared so many of my favorite Pizza recipes with all of you.
Without a doubt, my favorite is my mom’s Best Homemade Pizza, especially when it is topped with her no cook, Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe.
But who says pizza can only be savory?
There are endless possibilities and today, we will garnish our pizza with a chocolate spread and lots and lots of fruit!
Get your napkins ready because this could get messy!
Ingredients to make Chocolate Pizza:
As usual, the printable recipe card, found at the bottom of the page, has the specific amounts for each ingredient.
- Pizza Dough. Store bought or homemade. I use my mom’s recipe (link below).
- Chocolate Spread. Homemade or commercial.
- Fresh Fruit. Use fresh seasonal fruit, if possible.
- Mint Leaves. Makes the perfect garnish.
PREPPING THE FRUIT PIZZA INGREDIENTS:
If you have been here before, you know that I have created an entire post on How to Make Pizza Dough. Simply click on the link for the video and a step by step photo tutorial for my mom’s recipe. The post includes both methods.
Please refer to it and get to the stage where we need to stretch the pizza dough. You can also use store bought pizza dough if that is more convenient for you.
Once the pizza dough is ready to be stretched, place the oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat it to 400°F (200°C).
It’s now time to stretch our pizza dough.
How to Make Chocolate Pizza:
Please note that the ingredients have been scaled down to make one (10-12 inch) pizza. As a result, we will be stretching just one ball of pizza dough, which is half the pizza dough recipe.
Brush about 1 teaspoon of room temperature butter in a pizza pan. Don’t forget to also grease the sides.
Transfer the ball of dough to the pizza pan.
With lightly oiled fingertips, gently stretch out the pizza ball into a 10-12 inch circle.
Bake the pizza in the preheated oven (400 °F/200 °C) for about 15 minutes. You need to keep an eye on it as it will crisp up quickly. Bake the crust until it is firm and the bottom turns a light golden brown.
While the pizza is baking, slice and cut approximately 3 cups of fresh fruit.
When the pizza is ready, remove it from the oven and place on a rack to cool off. This should take just a few minutes.
Then, spread a thin layer of chocolate spread (⅓-½ cup). The minimal residual heat from the pizza should make it easy to spread the chocolate.
With a pizza cutter, cut the pizza into 6 wedges, while still keeping its round shape.
Place cut up fruit over the chocolate glazed pizza. There is no right or wrong way to do this. In the photo above, each section has one type of fruit on it.
In this photo, different kinds of fruit are found on each wedge of pizza.
If desired, drizzle with a little more chocolate and garnish with mint leaves.
As you can see, we have a nice thin crust pizza that can support the weight of the fruit.
A sweet pizza topped with fruit makes the perfect dessert for your pizza party. Your friends and family are going to love having pizza for dessert!
Chocolate Pizza Tips and Recipe Notes:
- Prep time DOES NOT include proofing time for the pizza dough. Please plan accordingly.
- Quantities for the ingredients are for 1 (10-12 inch) pizza.
- Do not over bake the pizza crust as it will crack when attempting to slice it.
What kind of fruit can be used for this?
It’s really up to you. Any seasonal fruit can be used as a topping with this pizza.
Why is the pizza cut before the fruit is added?
It is much easier to cut a chocolate covered pizza than one that is topped with fruit.
Fruit Dessert Recipes we Love:
Origins of Chocolate Pizza:
Most fruit pizzas have a sugar cookie crust and a cream cheese topping. If you know me, you probably know what I’m thinking.
As a dietitian, I’m offering an alternative that is just as tasty… minimal amount of chocolate spread topped with lots of fruit. After all, Italians love their fruit for dessert and this is the perfect excuse to have a fruit dessert pizza.
If you have been here before, you probably know that I love pizza.
In fact, I love pizza so much that I teamed up with a couple of friends to share pizza recipes.
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Maria
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Chocolate Pizza
Ingredients
- ½ pizza dough, ready to be stretched 250-275 grams of pizza dough; I use my mom's recipe.
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 3 cups fruits cut up, variety of seasonal fruits
- ⅓-½ cup chocolate spread commercial or homemade, warmed up in the microwave
- extra chocolate for drizzling
- fresh mint for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C)
- Brush about 1 teaspoon of room temperature butter at the bottom of a pizza pan. Don’t forget to also grease the sides.
- Transfer the ball of dough to the pizza pan.
- With lightly oiled fingertips, gently stretch out the pizza ball into a 10-12 inch circle.
- Bake the pizza in the preheated oven (400 °F/200 °C) for about 15 minutes. Bake the crust until it is firm and the bottom turns a light golden brown.
- When the pizza is ready. remove from the oven and place on a rack to cool off. This should take just a few minutes.
- Then, spread a thin layer of chocolate spread (⅓-½ cup). The minimal residual heat from the pizza should make it easy to spread the chocolate.
- With a pizza cutter, cut the pizza into 6 wedges, while still keeping its round shape.
- Place cut up fruit over the chocolate glazed pizza.
- If desired, drizzle with a little more chocolate and garnish with mint leaves.
Notes
- Prep time DOES NOT include proofing time for the pizza dough. Please plan accordingly.
- Quantities for the ingredients are for 1 (10-12 inch) pizza.
- Do not over bake the pizza crust as it will crack when attempting to slice it.
Nutrition
2pots2cook says
Maria, you rock. Totally ! Grazie milla !
Maria says
That is soo of you to say! Thanks so much for stopping by, appreciate it!