Fathead Keto Pizza Dough (3-way Recipe)

An easy, thin, crispy Keto Pizza Crust recipe using a Fathead Keto Pizza Dough recipe.

Bonus, you can choose your favorite Fathead Pizza Dough Recipe based on your taste: Almond flour, Coconut flour, or Egg-free keto pizza crust. All the options are here for you.

What Is Fathead Pizza Dough?

A fathead pizza dough is a low-carb keto pizza dough recipe made of 4 simple ingredients:

• Shredded mozzarella cheese – the hard kind, not the soft mozzarella.
• Cream cheese – can use lactose-free as well.
• Egg.
• Keto flour – almond flour or coconut flour are the most popular keto flours used in a fathead pizza dough recipe.

As you guessed, it’s called fathead because it is made with mostly fat-loaded ingredients and almost no carbs.

It’s an alternative to my keto pizza crust or my thick keto crust.

How To Make Fathead Pizza Dough

There are many ways to make keto fathead pizza depending on the keto flours you want to use and whether you want to use eggs or not.

Below I listed the three ways you can make a keto pizza crust with fathead dough with their pros and cons.

If you want to see the recipe measurements, skip this part and jump to the recipe card now.

Fathead Pizza Crust with Almond Flour is the most popular keto pizza crust on a keto diet and my preferred option.

Ingredients

All you need for this recipe are 4 ingredients.

• Almond flour
• Shredded mozzarella cheese
• Cream cheese
• Eggs

This Fathead dough is my favorite. This is why:

• Pros
  • The crust is very crispy.
• Cons
  • The dough is slightly gritty from the almond flour.

Jump to the Allergy Swaps section for a Nut-Free or for an Egg-Free option.

Making The Fathead Dough

There are 4 steps to follow to make a crispy fathead keto pizza crust recipe, whatever the recipe option you choose.

Step 1 – Melting Cheese

The first step to making any keto fathead pizza dough consists of melting mozzarella and cream cheese.

The fastest way to do this is to bring all the ingredients in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave for 1 minute.

Then, stir with a silicone spatula and return for 30 seconds to the microwave. Stir again until all the cream cheese is incorporated into the melted mozzarella and form a white elastic dough.

You can also melt these two ingredients in a non-stick saucepan over medium heat. Make sure you constantly stir to prevent the mixture from sticking to the pan.

Step 2 – Adding Flour And Egg

Now that the cheese dough is ready, add the keto flour first, plus any flavoring called by the recipe like Italian seasoning, salt, or garlic powder.

Then, add the beaten egg on top – if used. This technique prevents the egg from being in direct contact with the warm cheese dough.

Start stirring with the silicone spatula, then use your hand to knead the dough.

The dough will harden, forming yellow patches from the egg, and that’s normal.

Knead the dough until all the flour is absorbed. Now, bring it back to the microwave for 20 seconds to soften the dough.

Finally, knead again to form a soft, consistent dough ball with no pieces of eggs or flour.

Step 3 – Rolling The Dough

To roll this fathead pizza dough, you must use sheets of parchment paper or the dough sticks to the rolling pin.

First, place a large piece of parchment paper on your benchtop. Lightly oil the paper with olive oil if your paper tends to stick to food.

Then, place the fathead dough ball in the center of the paper and place another piece of parchment paper on top.

Next, press the dough ball with your hand to flatten and start rolling with a rolling pin into a 29-cm/11-inch diameter pizza.

Finally, pull the parchment paper with the rolled pizza dough to slide it onto a baking sheet or pizza pan.

Don’t forget to prick the pizza dough with a fork.

Step 4 – Pre-baking The Crust

Now, prebake the pizza for 10 minutes in a pre-heated oven at 400°F (200°C).

The dough will puff a lot, and that’s normal.

Open the oven and prick the dough with a fork to deflate the puffy areas. Keep baking until the entire base is golden brown.

Step 5 – Add pizza toppings

Remove the baking sheet from the oven and spread the keto pizza sauce all over the crust, leaving 0.5 inches without sauce on the border.

Then, add any keto toppings you love like chicken, pepperoni, olives, ham, and more!

Step 6 – Bake the pizza

Finally, return the pizza to the oven and bake for an extra 12 minutes until the borders are crispy and the cheese is melted.

Allergy Swaps

Nut-Free: Fathead Pizza Crust with Coconut Flour

The next option to make a keto fathead pizza crust is to use coconut flour.

Coconut flour is much more liquid-absorbent than almond flour, and therefore, it requires more moisture to create the best crispy keto pizza crust.

Some recipes use more eggs to balance the fibers in the coconut flour, but increasing the amount of cream cheese is a better way to make the best crispy keto pizza crust and avoid that eggy flavor in the dough.

Ingredients – all you need for this recipe are 4 ingredients: Coconut flour, Shredded mozzarella cheese, Cream cheese, and eggs.

• Pros
  • It is nut-free.
  • The crust is not gritty.
  • The pizza is very crispy.
• Cons
  • Some recipes use too many eggs with coconut flour, resulting in an eggy flavor in the dough.
  • It keeps a light coconut flavor even after baking.

Egg-free: Fathead Pizza Crust

A new way to make fathead pizza crust is to swap the eggs for more cream cheese.

This is a great option for those with egg allergies or trying to reduce their egg consumption on their keto journey.

Ingredients: Coconut flour, Shredded mozzarella cheese, Cream cheese

• Pros
  • It has no eggy flavor!
  • The crust is nut-free because egg-free pizza crusts work only with coconut flour.
  • The pizza is not gritty.
• Cons
  • It is not as crispy in the center and stays slightly chewy.
  • The pizza keeps a light coconut flavor.

Frequently Asked Questions

The most common issues with fathead pizza dough with my tips to fix them are listed below.

Nutrition Info

A fathead pizza is a low-carb keto-approved pizza crust recipe to make any pizza style, including pizza roll-ups and pizza pockets.

Depending on the flour you used, the net carbs per serving, or 1 slice out of an 11-inch pizza, vary slightly.

For an Almond flour Keto Fathead Pizza you will get per slice:

• Net carbs: 2 g
• Carbs: 3.1 g
• Fiber: 1.1 g
• Protein: 8.1 g
• Fat: 13 g
• Kcal: 156 kcal

For a Coconut Flour Keto Fathead Pizza (Nut-Free Option), you will get per slice:

• Net carbs: 1.9 g
• Carbs: 3.7 g
• Fiber: 1.8 g
• Protein: 6.6 g
• Fat: 8.5 g
• Kcal: 118 kcal

For a Coconut Flour Egg-free Keto Fathead Pizza, you will get per slice:

• Net carbs: 2 g
• Carbs: 3.8 g
• Fiber: 1.8 g
• Protein: 6 g
• Fat: 9.1 g
• Kcal: 121 kcal

Storage Instructions

Sure, you can freeze this fathead keto pizza recipe.

First, roll the dough between two pieces of parchment paper.

Then, wrap the rolled dough with plastic wrap and freeze flat.

Finally, thaw the crust for 1 hour at room temperature before pre-baking and add toppings.