Crusty No-Knead Pizza Bread with Hot Honey Butter
Sally McKenney · sallysbakingaddiction.com · 2025 · Original
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DietNot vegetarian: heaping cup chopped pepperoni. Reviewed: pepperoni; mozzarella; butter; honey.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
81% hydration: wetter than 85% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 450°F, hotter than 58% of recipes that state an oven.
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
440g
Water
356g
Hydration
80.8%
Salt
2.9%
Yeast
1.36%
Oil
30.7%
Sauce
n/a
Cheese
113g
Dough weight
1017g
Process
Bake temp
450°F / 232°C
Bake time
10 to 15 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Bulk
3h
Ingredients (12)
- flour3 and 1/3 cups bread flour3 1/3 cup · 440g
- yeastinstant or active dry yeast2 tsp · 6g
- saltcoarse salt*2 tsp · 12g
- sugargranulated sugar1 tsp · 4.2g
- sauce tomatocrushed red pepper flakes1/4 tsp
- oil1 heaping cup chopped pepperoni1 cup · 135g
- cheese mozzarellashredded mozzarella cheese1 cup · 113g
- water1 and 1/2 cups water1 1/2 cup · 356g
- sugarhoney63g
- sugarconfectioners’n/a
- salt1/8–1/4 teaspoon flaky sea salt or coarse salt0.1 tsp · 0.8g
- sauce tomatopinch of crushed red pepper flakesn/a
Toppings (4)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheesedried oregano2 tsp · 1g
- over cheesedried basil1 tsp · 0.5g
- over cheese1 and 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder1 1/2 tsp · 6.3g
- over cheeseunsalted butter1/2 cup · 113g
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