An inexpensive, quick imitation of Bakers’ Delight pizza bread, a popular lunch-on-the-go! It’s called so because it’s meant to be eaten at room temperature in lunchboxes. Morning tea, picnics, hungry teens, freezer stockpile!
Packable pizza bread for lunch! Okay, it’s only a biscuit tin. 😂 Coming soon: handmade muesli bar, baby cucumber, cherry tomatoes, grapes, and Vegemite shapes (an Aussie thing).
Pizza bread cooked at home
Bakers’ Delight, a prominent Australian bakery, serves everything from cinnamon buns to savory bread rolls for “lunch on the run”.
Always wanted to make pizza breads, a crowd favorite. Seeing that the RRP has risen to $4.90 (inflation!) was the motivation I needed to start.
I took the easiest route by creating a huge pizza slab and dividing it into slices. Further, I used a basic cheese muffin batter instead of yeast-based pizza dough, which takes hours to rise.
My pizza bread is arrived today. It may be eaten at room temperature, making it ideal for lunch boxes or work morning tea.
Pizza bread ingredients: stack of easy slices
This fast pizza bread uses savoury muffin batter. No yeast, kneading, or rising. Mix, bake!
The batter for easy pizza bread includes ordinary all-purpose flour. Self-rising flour may replace flour, baking powder, and baking soda, but the crumb is less soft and springy and lasts less.
Bi-carb baking powder + soda To urge you to utilize both instead of one is very annoying! It makes a difference, therefore I wouldn’t ask unless it matters.
Basically, both raise muffins, cakes, etc. However, baking soda, like triple-strength baking powder, rises differently depending on other components. In this recipe, just baking powder makes a dry crumb. Only baking soda is moundy. Both together = excellent!
Shredded cheese flavors the crumb and tops bread. Use your favorite shredded cheese (or combination) that melts except mozzarella, which is bland. In Australia, Devondale 3 cheese mix (mozzarella, colby, parmesan) is my favorite store-bought shredded cheese for melting and flavor.
If all you have is mozzarella, add 1/2 teaspoon salt to the batter.
OK pre-shredded! In this fast and simple dish, pre-shredded is great. I usually advocate shredding your own!
This batter uses milk and sour cream or yogurt. Sour cream keeps pizza bread moist for many days, unlike muffins, which get stale. Sour cream is thicker than milk, therefore baking aficionados require less flour to reach the correct consistency. Less flour, moister crumb.
Olive oil keeps the crumb moist. Butter, the second most frequent baking fat, offers buttery flavor but solidifies up at room temperature, making crumb drier. However, oil stays liquid, making the crumb moister.
The batter is bound with egg. Our bread has a long shelf life since we just use one egg. More eggs in recipes make drier crumb.
Easy pizza bread batter
Lumpy batter resembling muffin batters. Good shredded cheese lumps and little flour lumps that cook out.
- TOPPINGS
Today I used store-bought pizza sauce for convenience. Please create your own (any of the 3 possibilities is excellent) if you’re better than me.
Easy pizza bread ingredients
Store-bought pizza sauce. Any flavor you want!
Pepperoni, sliced olives, onion, and green capsicum/bell peppers (missing from shot above and half the pizza images). Use anything you wish.
I use the same cheese as in the batter for shredding.
Making my simple pizza bread
You’ll love its simplicity! Ready?
Mix dry ingredients. I whisk the dry first to keep the whisk clean for wet ingredients!
In another basin, whisk wet ingredients.
Combine – Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir with a rubber spatula until flour is largely mixed in but still visible. No worries—it will be bumpy!
Add cheese and stir until flour disappears. Small flour lumps in the dough will bake out. To much mixing activates the flour’s gluten, making the crumb hard and thick.
Easy pizza bread recipe
Place batter in a 23 x 33 cm (9 x 13″) metal pan. I spritz with oil and line the base and long sides with a wide piece of paper with overhang for easy removal. Oil spray eliminates the need to line short sides.
Ceramic and glass pans work, but the bread will rise less and take 3 minutes longer to bake. Because glass heats up slower.
After spreading pizza sauce, add cheese, onion, capsicum (which I forgot in half the pics!), olives, and pepperoni in that sequence.
Bake 40 minutes, 25 minutes uncovered. Place a baking pan on top and bake for 15 more minutes. This prevents cheese from over-goldening.
After 10 minutes in the pan, 10 minutes on a cooling rack, slice and serve.
Baked items complete cooking inside, therefore chilling instructions are crucial. Slicing this bread right out of the oven will make the interior taste “doughy” and undercooked.
Bread stays warm after 20 minutes of resting. It’s also made to taste well at room temperature for lunch boxes! Freshness lasts 3–4 days.
Serving Lunchbox Pizza Bread
This pizza bread is simple to prepare in quantity (do two pans at once) and eaten at room temperature like a savory muffin rather than piping-hot pizza. freezes perfectly.
Which means:
I named this dish because I thought it would be nice in lunch boxes! A handmade muesli bar is seen above.
Perfect for morning tea at work; convenient breakfast on the go; helpful for feeding perpetually hungry teens.
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