Caprese Pizza

Name: Caprese Pizza
Cook time: 7 min
Ingredients: 0.3333333333333333 cup homemade pizza sauce; 0.5 cup shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese; 0.25 cup grated fresh mozzarella; 1 each 1 handful quartered cherry tomatoes; 0 each Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper

Sonja Overhiser · acouplecooks.com · 2026 · Original

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Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%) — the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Flour

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Water

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Hydration

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Salt

—

Yeast

—

Oil

—

Sauce

67g

Cheese

85g

Dough weight

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Process

Bake temp

500°F / 260°C

Bake time

5-7 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (5)

sauce tomatohomemade pizza sauce0.3333333333333333 cup · 66.7g
cheese mozzarellashredded whole milk mozzarella cheese0.5 cup · 56.5g
cheese mozzarellagrated fresh mozzarella0.25 cup · 28.3g
sauce tomato1 handful quartered cherry tomatoes—
saltKosher salt and fresh ground black pepper—

Toppings (3)

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

over cheese1 recipe Best Pizza Dough
post bakeFresh basil
post bakeBalsamic reduction

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Process

Ingredients (5)

Toppings (3)