What inspired me to make this low carb pizza crust and to write about this recipe is the recent comment and suggestion from one of my blog readers, Mags. This is what she said:
“If you want another delicious low carb pizza crust recipe, try the “fat head pizza crust.” It’s very popular and has been a life saver for low carbers everywhere! (You can just find the recipe online or find it on pinterest) I’ve made cloud-bread base for pizza before, and while it’s delicious the “crust” doesn’t hold up much, and is very soft. Fat-head pizza crust holds up like a crispy regular thin pizza crust and definitely doesn’t taste low carb-y”
I thanked Mags and told her that I will look into this recipe, I will try to make it and if it’s “That Good”, I will spread the word about it…. Boy! I’m so glad I did and tried it! Not only it is very EASY and quick to make but man!, it is so delicious!
It doesn’t taste “low carb-y” at all, doesn’t taste egg-y and the best thing that you can keep piling up your most favorite toppings and ingredients on top and IT DOES hold them up very well and it is crispy! I’m in LOVE! Thank you Megs! It took me under 30 Minutes to make the whole entire recipe AND to even record the video! This is how easy it was! (See video in action below)
PS: Please save this Pinterest-friendly photo below. If you’re not making this easy low-carb pizza crust right now, you will easy find it in your saves later. This is the BEST recipe for Low carb Keto Friendly Fathead pizza crust.
Related recipe: How to make Fat Heads Pizza Bites
I was like, what in the world is “Fat-Head “? I saw a dozens of recipes online but couldn’t figure out why it called “FatHead”.. but I’m here to tell you it’s legit! and stands to it’s claims! It is The Best low carb pizza crust that I’ve ever tried and the good part that both of my kids loved it too. We love pizza so much! However it gives me sometimes overstuffed feeling…After eating my brand new fat head recipe, I was not over-loaded, I didn’t have any growling noises in my stomach, I didn’t feel over-stuffed and I practically felt good the rest of my evening…
OK enough balloney, here’s an easy recipe, I adapted from AnnaVocino.com
The Ultimate “Fat Head” Pizza Crust (makes a 10-12 inch thin crust pizza)
For crust:
1 and half cups shredded mozzarella
3 TBS cream cheese
1 egg
2/3 cup almond meal
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
For topping:
Pizza sauce
Choice of vegetables, meat, cheese, etc. (For my toppings I used sliced up hot dogs, fresh tomatoes, roasted peppers, left-over taco meat and mozzarella cheese). I got a lot of comments on my video for using sliced up hot dogs as a pizza topping..LOL. Hey, there’s no pizza police or pizza topping police! You can put anything you want on your pizza, right?
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Microwave the mozzarella and cream cheese in a bowl until soft, about 35 seconds. Add egg, almond meal, oregano, and basil and blend well into a dough ball. Press into a circle shape or square shape pizza on a parchment lined baking sheet sprayed with a thin coating of olive oil or coconut oil. Sprinkle garlic salt and basil over surface of pizza crust. Poke few holes with fork to the crust from rising while baking.
Bake crust in oven for 8-10 mins. Then broil (cook top) for 1-2 minutes. It should look something like this.
Add your pizza sauce and toppings, pop back in oven for 4-5 more minutes until cheese is melted and bubbly.
I hope you enjoy this delicious pizza crust! Handy recipe printable is below. I’m obsessed with it too and it’s my favorite easy snack for lunch and dinner.
Related: If you enjoyed this recipe, you will also love Keto Low carb Bagels (made with the same fat-head dough) sprinkled with Everything but Bagel Seasoning!
- For crust
- 1 and half cups shredded mozzarella
- 3 TBS cream cheese
- 1 egg
- ⅔ cup almond meal
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- For topping
- Pizza sauce (pasta sauce)
- Choice of vegetables, meat, cheese, etc. (For my toppings I used sliced up hot dogs, fresh tomatoes, roasted peppers, left-over taco meat and mozzarella cheese)
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Microwave the mozzarella and cream cheese in a bowl until soft, about 35 seconds. Add egg, almond meal, oregano, and basil and blend well into a dough ball. Press into a circle shape or square shape pizza on a parchment lined baking sheet sprayed with a thin coating of olive oil or coconut oil. Sprinkle garlic salt and basil over surface of pizza crust. Poke few holes with fork to the crust from rising while baking.
- Bake crust in oven for 8-10 mins. Then broil (cook top) for 1-2 minutes. It should look something like this (see photo)
- Add your pizza sauce and toppings, pop back in oven for 4-5 more minutes until cheese is melted and bubbly.
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Trying this right now! Thank you for posting. Do you have to grease with the baking spray?
yes, you should. Or olive oil as the recipe mentions. It will stick if not.
I don’t see any list of the carb content…
By looking at the contents of the , there are dang near no carbs. Protein and spices. A few from the is all.
It stuck a bit to the bottom but i think i out too much olive oil. Other than that though it was amazing!“
HI Cesar, thank you! Did you use foil paper or parchment paper? I found that if you use foil it gets stuck a little. Use parchment paper instead. And all I did was I used an olive oil cooking spray. at the end it didn’t get stuck practically any bit. Please also watch my video within the post. Good luck and let me know if the “stuck issue” was fixed.
Made your cloud bread Ty so much. A real plus for my low carb diet
Hi, do you have nutritional values for this recipe? I tried to do it myself but not sure it is correct.
thanks
Nadia
HI Nadia, I use recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator to calculate the nutritional value. If you cut pizza into 4 slices, the nutritional value per slice (crust only) Calories 295.2
Total Fat 24.5 g
Saturated Fat 8.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4 g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.4 g
Cholesterol 88.4 mg
Sodium 349.9 mg
Potassium 32.2 mg
Total Carbohydrate 6.5 g
Dietary Fiber 2.3 g
Sugars 1.1 g
Protein 17.4 g
This is not including the toppings – whatever you decide to put on top (vegetables or meat) will be extra. I hope this helps. Did you get similar numbers?
where do the carbs cme from since there is only cheese and the flour?
This recipe uses Almond flour and it has 6 g carbs in 1/4 cup or 3 g net carbs
Made this last night…it was Uh-Mazing!!! Kids and hubby LOVED it and I step on the scale and was down a whole pound even after my pizza night!!! Still in ketosis, this just made my low carb lifestyle 10xs easier to commit to.
Shanika so glad to hear you liked the recipe… Oh yes it sounds like a lot but it’s so light and you can use your favorite veggies and other toppings… Here’s to healthy 2017!! Happy holidays!
Made this and me and my husband loved it. He said he could eat it everyday.
Thank you! I made it recently and it reminded me how good it is. Glad you and your husband enjoyed. Happy and healthy 2017!
Thanks for the ideas.
Could you substitute the mozzarella? Or reduce it by adding in something else. That’s ALOT of cheese 🙂
Not a big dairy fan. I make my own cream cheese from milk kefir, so it’s easier on the gut.
I wonder what properties the mozzarella brings to the pizza base that could be swapped out?
HI Alison. You can substitute mozzarella for cheddar i suppose. If you’re not a big fan of dairy, Another good alternative is a crust made with cauliflower or out of broccoli, but I haven’t tried the broccoli crust yet
I just made it. Was great, but crust was a bit soggy. I must have messed something up. What is broil on stovetop 2 minutes mean? Didn’t see it in the video either.
Was the crust soggy or crust with toppings on it? If you load up the toppings yes I noticed they are soggying up the crust a little… But my crust was pretty crips. One suggestion I may suggest – use parchment paper. If it soggs up on the parchment paper, then perhaps use the plain baking sheet.
Broil means cook the top only in the oven. Do you have this setting? YOu should… All ovens should have that. Another words – the flames or the heat is coming from the top only
It was the crust that was soggy. I’m thinking from watching some videos my dough wasn’t doughy enough. Either too much cheese possible or maybe not enough almond flour. I used 2/3 cups but maybe 3/4 would have been better. Also, I baked 9 minutes, but I see some going up to 12 minutes. The more time the crispier? Thanks for the recipe!
YOu may need to bake it more than 9 min. Then watch it so it doesn’t burn. Did you find the broil (cook top) option on your oven? Perhaps use 1 cup of mozzarella instead of 1 and half. And one more suggestion – perhaps use the cooling rack (if you have one) to bake your crust additional few minutes. This may prevent it from soggyness… Good luck
I flipped mine over onto another piece of oiled parchment and broiled another 2 minutes. That seemed to make it crisper! (Before adding the toppings, of course!)
Very good suggestion Necia! I’m thinking you can also use a cooling rack to bake or broil the pizza crust at the end for few minutes to make it crispy
Ingredient list says garlic powder but instructions say salt. Which should I use??
Sorry if it’s not clear. You can use 1/2 tsp of salt ( I used Himalayan salt because it’s not very salty) and 1/2 tsp of garlic powder.
This recipe is amazing! Thank you for sharing!!
Glad you enjoyed. Thank you
OH WOW! This is sooo good and so easy and quick (at least it will be next time). The egg & cheese in the crust (although you could add more) holds together like a flour crust. My 15yo son wanted to eat the crust before I added toppings! He liked it better with the meatball, mushroom sauce and pepper toppings though.
I pressed it out onto parchment paper without spray, it was pretty sticky, but then turned it upside down onto the hot stone and pulled paper away. When it came from oven 10 min later, before putting toppings on, I insured it wasn’t stuck to stone. There was no problem sticking after that. Next time I’ll try spray and put parchment on stone.
I was thrilled when I found more mozzarella cheese in the freezer so I can make another one soon!
Now I’m wanting to try the cloud bread biscuits! I’ve so missed biscuits!
Hi Catina. So glad you loved the recipe. Enjoy!
Best thing ever!
Ohhh my goodness! Made this crust last weekend and it turned out WONDERFUL! This weekend we made the crust and prior to baking it we filled it with Genoa salami, pepperoni, spicy Italian sausage, topped it with extra mozzarella cheese then folded the crust over, pinched the sides and BAM the best CALZONE ever!! SOOOO GOOOD!! Thanks for sharing!
What a great idea! So glad you enjoyed. I’m going to give a Calzone a try!
How can I substitute for the almond flour, for nut free and still remain GF and low carb?
HI Lorraine, this low carb recipe requires almond flour. I would suggest to replace with reg. gluten free flour but you still need it low carb. Try to find fluten free low carb flour. I also advise to try the cauliflower crust. It’s quite good too. Google cauliflower crust, as I have not published the cauliflower pizza crust on my blog yet. But you will find the cauliflower ice cream
We had a pizza party with our extended family on 2/12/17 (my wife and i are on the keto diet) so we made two pizzas using this crust and both were gone in a matter of 5 to 10 minutes after putting them out. Everybody loves them. This is our new pizza crust thanks
This is also my favorite pizza crust recipe, second being the cauliflower crust. Glad you enjoyed!
I need low carb recipes because of diabetes
Hi Cindy, YOu will find lots of low carb recipes here… hope you enjoy
I have used this recipe for a while and it’s so good! I know why it’s called FatHead Pizza. It comes from the documentary done by Tom Naughton: Fat Head The Movie.
Wow this is interesting to know… Now we know 🙂 Thank you and glad that you enjoy it…
Hi there could u please tell me the carbs for the pizza dough I don’t see it any where? Making for a diabetic so need carb count… Thank you!!
HI Michelle, I use recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator to calculate the nutritional value. If you cut pizza into 4 slices, the nutritional value per slice (crust only) Calories 295.2
Total Fat 24.5 g
Saturated Fat 8.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4 g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.4 g
Cholesterol 88.4 mg
Sodium 349.9 mg
Potassium 32.2 mg
Total Carbohydrate 6.5 g
Dietary Fiber 2.3 g
Sugars 1.1 g
Protein 17.4 g
This is not including the toppings – whatever you decide to put on top (vegetables or meat) will be extra. I hope this helps. Did you get similar numbers?
So I tried it, but used coconut flour since there were less carbs in that choice.. and OMG…. yummy. There are only 8g if carbohydrates in coconut flour so it worked better for my goals. But u followed the rest of the recipe and it was amazing. Thanks for sharing!
what exactly is ‘broil’ ? I understood it was putting something under the grill to brown but then I read above your description of “broil, on cook top” So many different terminologies between USA and Australia
HI Joan, My stove has a “broil” option. When the flames are from the top and it cooks the top only. Do you have this option on your stove? If not, you can just leave it on “bake for extra 2-3 minutes
It’s great! I’ve made this a bunch of times and I always love it. Thanks for sharing!
Glad to hear that… Enjoy and you’re welcome!
None of these recipes turn out to really be worth the effort. The pizza crust has a grainy, dry texture. The “cloud/oopsie bread tastes very ” eggy”, and collapses too easily to really even eat it as bread substitute. Better to stick with fruits, vegetables & just lean meats, eggs, cheese if going low carb. Everything else is just a wash out.
Fruit? Low carb?
This crust is the best by far that I have tried! New go to for pizza cravings. Thanks!
AMAZING! Love being able to have pizza again. Thank you.
OMG this was so
yummy and actually tastes like a real pizza!! Thank you thank you thank you!! I have a son who’s trying very hard to lose weight my watching carbs and he even loved it too!
I made this pizza crust tonight, and I have to say it was pretty good! Didn’t taste weird. I will make this again!
Wow! I’m done searching. This is by far the best pizza crust ever. Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
Awesome Candy! So glad you enjoyed! ? You’re welcome
Can almond flour be used or does it need to be almond meal?
Is one serving the whole pizza?
Thanks!
Yep, you can use almond flour or almond meal… Same thing… Pizza serves 4
Loved it….I grated organic cheddar and parm into the crust instead of melting it and hand pressed into a spring firm pan for a deep dish pizza. Definitely will make it again!!!
I absolutely love this recipe! It turns out beautiful and delicious. Both my children, 7 and 2, eat it as well as myself and my hubby.
Awesome! I’m glad it worked out good for the entire family! Worked out the same with my family 🙂
How do you broil on a cook top?
You can use broil or grill option in your oven
Made this tonight! My toddlers even approved! So good!
I just tried your pizza recipie and it was fantastic!
I wish I could upload the picture I took.
I made an extra crust to slice for “garlic bread” to go with my veggie noodles with meat sauce.
Totally making those pizza bites for dinner tomorrow evening.
This was so good. My family was eating regular pizza and tasted mine, they thought it tasted good!
This was super yummy!! Just made it and loved it! Tastes almost like a real pizza! Slurp. I miss pizza on my keto diet. So this is my go to meal from now onwards! Thank you for sharing!!
Made my first fathead pizza using your recipe!
OMG! Just started keto lifestyle and thought I wouldn’t be able to enjoy pizza ever again, but than I made this! It was delicious just like pizza! Thank you for posting recipe! I will be sharing on Instagram and giving them the web address for the recipe!
Made it tonight. Husband gave it 6/5 stars – ha! It was really quick and easy too. Only,thing I may change next time is turning crust over to broil a few mins as well so bottom is browned. Then add toppings. Topped w uncured pepperoni, zuchinni, mushroom, then fresh tomato, red pepper flake, oregano after bake. Super yum! Thx
Can you use coconut flour instead of almond meal ?
Amazing pizza came out! I would like to have more guide in the recepie , for example how the dough should look like and felt like ? Mine was still very sticky after I used exact ingredients so I ended up putting more almond flour in… as well what means “bake crust for 8-10 min , than broil (top) for 1-2min” don’t you just put the crust in the oven and wait??? Or you turn it? That part I didn’t get…
anyway pizza came out amazing even with extra cup of flour ?
Hi Irina,
I read all the comments, so I know i’m late to the party, but I cooked the pizza tonight. Great flavor, but I think I used too much cheese. It never formed a dough or a real crust. This sounds like too much cheese. I noticed one person comment the same and you suggested less cheese and more flour. Any new suggestions to a from a dough since last year?
Thanks
Rita
HI Rita, try to follow the recipe precisely and you should have formed a nice crispy dough
Hi Irina !
Thank you for posting the recipe, can’t wait to try it. Would you happen to know how many net carbs are in one recipe if the fat head pizza crust?
Hi Cheryl, sorry I thought I posted it, but I need to update the recipe:
If you serve pizza into 4 slices, the nutritional value per slice (crust only) Calories 295.2
Total Fat 24.5 g
Saturated Fat 8.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4 g
Monounsaturated Fat 1.4 g
Cholesterol 88.4 mg
Sodium 349.9 mg
Potassium 32.2 mg
Total Carbohydrate 6.5 g
Dietary Fiber 2.3 g
Sugars 1.1 g
Protein 17.4 g
This is not including the toppings – whatever you decide to put on top (vegetables or meat) will be extra. I hope this helps. Did you get similar numbers?
Could you sub gluten free flour instead?
HI Ashley, Absolutely, you can sub for gluten free flour and it should be the same amount.
I made this for the first time tonight. I believe this is the best low carb recipe I’ve ever encountered. Thank you for sharing it.
Wow, tried this receipe last night and I forgot I was on a low-carb diet. The crust was perfect, crispy on the edges. My adult children tried it and loved it as well. We made a supreme pizza ; Italian sausage crumbles , mozzarella cheese, onions, bell-pepper and olives. We will definitely be having this again!
So glad you enjoyed and found it useful… Your supreme pizza sounds delicious!
Can you use this recipe in a wood fired pizza oven?
Hello.. have not tried this oven… but
I don’t see why not…
As long as it can heat up to required temperature …
Let me know if it works?
Did I miss it? How many carbs?
Incredible!! My wife is a very picky pizza person and she loved this recipe!
This pizza base is awesome!!!
No need to look any further for any other recipes!!
Thank you
This is awesome to hear! – Thank you for feedback
We had to go to Plan B for dinner. This recipe only made a small, appx 9-inch diameter pizza crust (and a very thin one at that). I am guessing the crust in the blog photo was either enlarged, or the portions doubled. Also the crust itself (the 9-inch version) is almost a day’s worth of calories. So even if you only eat 1/2 of it – that’s over 600 calories! The instructions also say to put it under a broiler, but I’d be awfully careful with that, because the parchment paper WILL catch on fire.
The good news is, I tried a bite and it was tasty. And definitely low in carbs. But the very high calories negate any low-carb benefit.
Can you do this without a microwave? I don’t have one.
Thanks!
Sure…. you can melt the 1st part in the oven for a minute or 2??
Can you make dough ahead of time and refrigerate until you are ready to make the pizza? I would like to make up dough in the morning; then it’s all ready to be baked when i get home from work.
I have not done it myself, but I don’t see a problem with refrigerating the dough…. I apologize for the late reply… have you tried it yet, did it work?
I sure hope so
I LOVE, LOVE your low carb pizza recipe!!!!! OMG! I will definitely try other recipes of yours and will follow your website for as long as I’m on a low carb diet, which I plan on for the rest of my life!???? Thank you!
Thank you so much for the love! Glad you liked the recipe… I love it too…I look forward to hear what you think of other recipes….
I am a T2D that has worked my way down to a pre diabetic without meds….just keeping strict with diet and lifestyle. I made this crust tonight and had my 5 yr old help out…he was so excited to help daddy in the kitchen! This came out great…I made it as a flat bread and topped it off with cheese and avacado…it was so DANG GOOD! Thx for the recipe!
Is there a nut free way to make this? Wife is deathly allergic.
Sure, you can try to add reg. Flour instead or gluten free flour…
Best of luck
We tried your recipe for the first time, and love it. Very simple ingredients and instructions, and we thank you for the recipe.
Your’ welcome! Glad you liked it!
Loved this recipe! Added an extra 1/4 cup of almond flour when shaping into a ball.placed dough ball between 2 sheets of parchment paper sprayed with canola spray and lightly rolled and then shaped into a rectangle.. Baked for 10 minutes on a parchment lined air flow pizza pan, turned crust over an removed the parchment paper and baked 3 more minutes. Then broiled for 3 minutes…then followed the remaining directions. Crispy and delicious! Thanks again!
I have tried this several times and it is delicious. The closest thing to real pizza dough taste!
Just made this, thought i had almond flour but had to use tapioca flour instead (so much for low carb this time). Was expecting disaster, instead was wonderful.
I love breads made of Tapioca flour. It reminds me of Brazilian bread balls. Sadly this flour is not a low carb flour. But so glad it came out great…. I must try this recipe using tapioca flour., Must be fantastic chewy consistency
Is almond MEAL the same as almond FLOUR? I have the flour already.
Yes! Almond flour could be fine ground… you’re good to go… good luck
Can u make this recipe without almond meal? Im allergic to nuts. Thanks
To substitute almond flour, Regular Or gluten free flour would be a good substitute.
For low carb, you can substitute for a protein powder or carbquick baking mix
I hope this helps
Really good pizza crust recipe! Just made this and my picky cousin (after taking off the mushrooms) liked it enough for another piece! Anyway, a couple notes. In step 2 it says to add the basil to the dough mix. Then, it later says to add the basil along with the garlic powder to the top of the crust. It doesn’t say it’s a divided 1/2 tsp or another tsp. I just added a pinch to the top also. Also, I sprayed/oiled another piece of parchment to help spread the dough out because it was so sticky. It worked great. Use a good amount of oil or spray on the bottom so it doesn’t stick. It was yummy and very satisfying if you’re doing Keto/Low Carb and keep seeing pizza commercials on tv!
Great recipe! Delicious! And you were right on the quick part. So much easier than cauliflower pizza crust! I wonder if flax meal could be added?
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! And I see why not add the flax meal. 100%
Can I use almond flour instead of almond meal?
Yes! It’s the same thing practically… flour is finely ground… this is the only difference
I made it and it was much better than others but still not as crispy as my old flour-crust pizza that I loved! Could the cheese in the crust be replaced with coconut oil to make it crisper in the oven?
I haven’t tried to replace cheese with coconut oil… or did you mean coconut flour… good idea for a try… good luck
Can you use almond flour?
Yes, correct? use almond flour
thank you for the great recipe.
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Can you freeze this dough to use later?
Totally freezeable… when ready defrost and spread into pizza crust shape
My husband and I loved the crust.. we used turkey pepperoni and fresh mozzarella along with sliced black olives and torn basil leaves. The one thing I will try different the next time, is to not preheat our baking stone.. it was maybe a little too crisp… but if you like a very crunchy crust.. go for it !!
Bon appetite !!!
Hi Peggy … so glad that you and your husband enjoyed the crust… it’s my favorite too… wow I never cooked on a baking stone… it must cook fantastic things and I love things crispy ?? can you put it on top of stove or grill? Loved your idea ❤???
Great recipe. Great flavor and consistency. It wasn’t like pizza, it was pizza! Once it was baked I took it out, topped it and then used my pizza peel to return and remove it. Nice crisp crust!
So glad you loved the recipe… this is amazing to hear… enjoy!!!
Anyway you can tell us the calorie and carb count?
Gonna try this cloud bread crust. Been making cauliflower crust for years n love it, but this looks great. Thanks for sharing
I love this as a pizza crust! By far my favorite! Was wondering how u could turn this into a calzone? Any suggestions?
It was quick and easy to make. It was so delicious 😋 Husband approved 😋