Ultimate Summer Peach Basil Bacon Sugared Pan Pizza

Peaches, Basil Cream Spread, and Crispy Bacon on a Sugar Crusted Pizza dough make this the ultimate summer pizza!

This Is Summer On A Pizza

There’s no question when it comes to what I’ll pizzafy. I can’t dance or draw but I’m an artist of the dough; pizza dough that is.

This pizza just screams summer in every single delicious bite. From the fresh basil cheese spread to those juicy peaches, you can’t help but smile when you bite into this.

Grab Your Ingredients

There really isn’t a lot going into this pizza however the depth of flavor it has is remarkable.

• Prepared Grandma style pizza dough
• Peaches – fresh or canned (drained) peach halves
• Basil – it has to be fresh
• Basil Cream Spread – this stuff is amazing!
• Crispy Bacon
• Cheese – freshly shredded only

Watch How To Make The Dough

In THIS POST, watch how to make the dough by hand. It’s pretty straight forward and honestly, for such a small dough batch, I prefer it this way.

1. In a large bowl or wooden pizza box, add the flour. Make a well. To that add in the water but only to the well. You want to keep the sides intact. Next, sprinkle the yeast overtop the water and, forming your fingers like a claw, stir the water and yeast mixture gently slowly bringing in flour to make a thick paste. It should be the consistency of thick pancake batter.
2. Keep mixing with your claw fingers until you have a shaggy/sticky dough and almost all of the flour is incorporated. Next, drizzle in the olive oil and stir, knead gently until all of the oil is incorporated. Add the sea salt and gently knead to bring the dough together.
3. Dump the ingredients out onto a lightly floured board and continue to knead until you get a dough ball shape and all of the shaggy bits are incorporated. This should be semi-smooth. Take your mixing bowl and turn it upside down and place it over top of the dough ball.
4. Let it rest for 20 minutes. By doing this, you’re allowing the gluten to relax. After 20 minutes, remove the bowl and place it in a large, lightly oiled bowl.  Cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.

Prepare The Basil Cheese Spread

While the dough is proofing, make the basil cheese spread by placing all of the ingredients into a food processor and combining until it’s smooth. Transfer to a bowl, cover, and place in the fridge.

Pan the Pizza

1. In a 9″x9” or 10×10″ Detroit or Grandma-style pizza pan (you can use a sheet pan but it won’t be as thick as the pizza pictured), coat the inside with a pan with butter making sure to get the corners and walls. Add 1 Tablespoon of sugar and coat the inside of the pan.
2. Take your prepared pizza dough and place your dough into the prepared pan. Using your fingertips, dimple the dough out towards the edges as far as you can get it. DO NOT FORCE IT. Cover and repeat every 30 minutes or until the dough stretches to the edges of the pan. Once at the edges of the pan, cover with sprayed plastic wrap and allow to rest for 30 minutes – 2 hours or until the dough puffs up.

Assemble The Pizza & Bake

1. Spread out the basil cream spread going just shy of 1/4″ from the edges of the pizza dough. Add the peach halves, and cut side down. Top with bacon, and sprinkle on the cheese.

2. Bake for 16-18 minutes or until the cheese is fully melted and the internal dough temperature is 200F. Using a thin-blade spatula, remove the pizza from the pan and place it on a cooling rack just for a minute. Transfer to a cutting board, slice, and enjoy!

The Best Peach Basil Bacon Pizza

So this pizza I actually had to do create live while streaming during an interview. Mr. Fantabulous was my ‘camera man’ while I was making this while chatting with my interviewer.

Anyone that knows my husband knows he is NOT adventurous when it comes to pizza. To him, having a white pizza with onions, proscuitto and tomatoes is out there. However it was this very pizza that proved that he’s not as vanilla as I thought when it came to pizza.

As it was time to take a bite on camera I happened to look up at my husband who literally had a chocolate chip cookie in one hand and a slice of this in the other. Mind you, he was not to be on camera.

Me, being me, grabbed the camera and turned it to him (honestly I was in shock) and said, “What are you doing? You’re eating this pizza? You only eat plain!” He said, “You’re right but this smells so good that I had to try it. Honey, this pizza is absolutely incredible!”

Mind you, he already had eaten almost half of the slice before I put him on camera. He absolutely LOVED this pizza and to do this, still asks me to make this. So coming from Mr. Vanilla Fantabulous, this is exceptional!

Recipe Modifications

So with this recipe, you do have some wiggle room on changes.

• Cheese – try pepperjack or something with a bit of heat
• Veggies – shallots would be amazing with this
• Berries – raspberries are great on this AFTER the pizza is baked. I find baking them make them too mushy
• Drizzles – Hot Honey or Balsamic Glaze is amazing too!

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