Loaded Baked Potato Pizza Recipe

This Loaded Baked Potato Pizza is packed with all of the flavors you love from stuffed baked potatoes, like bacon, cheese and ranch dressing!

Loaded Potato Pizza

I may have mentioned this previously, but I keep a “to make for the blog” list of recipe ideas on my phone.

I’m always adding to it based on inspiration I get from restaurants (like a blood orange margarita), magazines (like the chilean sea bass I adapted from Bon Appetit) and the farmer’s market (like a batch of fajitas veggies when bell peppers are in season).

“Loaded Baked Potato Pizza” has been on that list since, I kid you not, 2013. Well, I finally made it a reality, and it was just as delicious as I always hoped it would be!

Now I’m wondering why I waited so long to make this recipe. My favorite thing about this Loaded Baked Potato Pizza recipe is that it can be made entirely with ingredients you already have in your kitchen or are EASY to find at any grocery store (just like my loaded mashed potato casserole).

No hunting around for obscure ingredients required.

Baked Potato Pizza Recipe Ingredients

Hunt through your kitchen or head to the grocery store and pick up the simple ingredients you need for this potato pizza recipe:

• pizza dough – one ball of store bought or homemade pizza dough. Judgement free zone here – my fav thing to use is a frozen ball of dough from a local brand carried at area grocery stores.
• garlic – you’ll need three cloves for this loaded potato pizza.
• potatoes – I used baby gold potatoes here, but if you have russets on hand for mini shepherd’s pies, or fingerlings left over from mini Hasselback potatoes, those work too. Whatever you have!
• bacon – use my easy method for cooking bacon in the oven, either right before you make the potato bacon pizza, or the day before (save the grease for bacon grease gravy). If turkey bacon is more your speed, check out my tutorials on how to cook turkey bacon in the oven and turkey bacon in an air fryer!
• cheddar cheese – I know from my experience making cheddar mashed potatoes that the sharp flavor of cheddar cheese is a great pairing for the blank canvas of a potato.
• ranch dressing – you can use bottled ranch dressing, prepare it from a packet of seasoning mix, or really amp up the flavor with my pesto ranch!
• jalapeños – buy a jar of pickled jalapeños, follow my tutorial for how to pickle jalapenos, or simply used thinly sliced fresh jalapeño.
• green onions – I love the flavor of green onion on a loaded baked potato (and in mashed potato cakes). Chives work great, too!

Home Chef Tips for this Baked Potato Pizza Recipe

• You’ll want to cook just the pizza crust, topped with the sliced potatoes, for 8 minutes before adding any of the other toppings. This allows the potatoes to cook long enough to become tender.
• I like to buy a block of cheese and shred it myself vs. buying pre-shredded cheese for this baked potato pizza. I think cheese that you shred yourself melts better! I also always shred my own mozzarella for crab rangoon pizza and buffalo shrimp pizza.
• Make sure you season the potatoes with salt and pepper in step 3. You don’t want to salt them in step 2, because the salt will bring all the moisture out of the potatoes too soon, and you’ll end up with a wet pizza crust. But once the potatoes have had a chance to cook a little, you’ll want to season them well in step 3, for the best flavor.

If you can, use a pizza stone for this potato bacon pizza recipe!

Pizza stones are a wonderful tool to have if you’re a pizza lover because they help to achieve a crispy crust on this baked potato pizza without shelling out a few thousand dollars for an actual pizza oven.

You simply throw the pizza stone in the oven as it preheats (usually to a high temperature like 400 degrees F) and once the oven comes up to temp you put the freshly stretched dough down on the stone and stick the stone back in the oven to crisp up.

P.S. Make sure you brush up on how to clean a pizza stone to ensure it lasts a long time!

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