This pizza is loaded with delicious gooey cheese, bacon, apples and thyme. You will not believe how creamy and delicious it is, not to mention how good it smells.
If you want to try an unexpected but delicious pizza flavor, you are in the right place. The creamy sauce, apples, bacon, and thyme go so well together.
Not all pizza needs red sauce, and this is proof of that. It is worth the try!
Here I am with a pizza on apple week and it doesn’t involve a sugar cookie crust or any brown sugar.
You didn’t expect that, did you? Me either! But here I am with a gooey, cheesy, melty, bacon topped pizza hoping you’ll like it.
Actually, I am sure you will! What’s not to love? There’s cheese! And apples! And BACON!
Whew, please forgive me. All of this apple fun has gone to my head!
We used our favorite sourdough pizza crust recipe, but you can use your favorite crust recipe if you have one.
Or pick up some pizza dough from the grocery store if that is more your speed, there is no judgement here!
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As the dough was rising, prep the ingredients. You will want to scrub your apples and get the leaves off your thyme.
I knew that a bechamel that was lightly flavored with mustard would be a great base. It is so creamy and we love it on croque madame pizzas.
Some thin sliced apples, plenty of cheese and some crumbles of bacon later, it was ready for the oven. I love our cast iron pizza pan, but a stone would work great as well.
Let me tell you how good this smelled while it was baking. Then I sprinkled some fresh thyme on top when it came out and the aroma was amplified.
It was so hard to take the time to snap a few pictures for you. I really just wanted to dive in.
Honestly, I knew my husband and I would be in heaven. I was less sure what Little Dude and his friend would think. Luckily they kept telling me how good it was as they munched away.
In case you are worried about me after posting a healthy apple cinnamon oatmeal recipe, a salad and a savory pizza on a week devoted to apples, you can click back to the applesauce cake to see I’m still my frosting loving self.
But don’t put your thermometers away just yet. I’ve got a pretty healthy peanut butter yogurt fruit dip coming tomorrow, so you’ll likely have more worrying to do!
We are half way through the apple festivities and my must make list is a mile long(er!) What new recipes are you going to try?
Savory Apple Bacon Pizza
Ingredients
- Dough for 1 pizza crust
- 2 Tablespoon butter
- 2 Tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard
- salt and pepper
- 6 slices bacon cooked crispy
- 1 apple cored and thinly sliced
- 8 oz Gruyere cheese
- 1 Tablespoon fresh thyme
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 475°F and preheat your pizza stone.
- In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Whisk in the flour and continue to cook for a minute or two. You don’t want it to take on much color, just cook the flour flavor out.2 Tablespoon butter, 2 Tablespoon all-purpose flour
- Pour in the milk and continue to whisk and cook until it thickens. Remove from heat and stir in the mustard. Adjust the salt and pepper to taste.1 cup whole milk, 1 Tablespoon Dijon mustard
- Roll out pizza dough. (I like to assemble the pizza on parchment for easier transfer, but use whatever method you’d like.)
- Top dough with mustard béchamel. Cover with grated Gruyere. Arrange thinly slice apples and chopped bacon over cheese.1 apple, 8 oz Gruyere cheese, 6 slices bacon
- Transfer pizza to hot pizza stone and bake for about 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle with fresh thyme. Slice and enjoy!1 Tablespoon fresh thyme
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You know you had me at bacon 🙂
Yummy! What a great twist on pizza.
Thanks, Val! We really enjoyed how it turned out!
Such a lovely fall pizza. And I love the combo of apple and bacon. Yum!
They really work so well together, don't they? Thank you!
Perfect flavor profile on this pizza. YUM
Thank you so much, Wendy!
Oh, my goodness gracious, I would LOVE a slice of that. Right about now. Thanks for sharing the recipe, Carlee. And thanks, too, for organizing this amazing event.
Thanks, Camilla! I just love seeing how your creative mind works!
I love that you found a way to use apples in your pizza! You are so creative. Thank you for sharing this apple bacon pizza. Your little gadgets look fun.
They really are fun! You should enter to win a set! 😉
Oh my goodness! You had me at Gruyere cheese!!
Hehe! I know, right?!
Is it bad I want this for breakfast? I mean it has apples, bacon and cheese…all breakfast foods. It looks amazing!
Not at all! It would make a great breakfast or brunch!
I'm having another proud Momma moment. You are so creative!
I am pretty proud of this one myself! Thanks!
Oh another apple WINNER!!!!! This looks scrumptious with the Gruyere cheese!! I would probably want to eat the whole thing myself..sorry boys, lol!!
Ha! I wouldn't blame you one bit. I wasn't 100% sure how my boys would like it but Little Dude kept telling me how good it was and of course my husband kept going back for more. Even the neighbor kid scarfed a slice down.