An easy low carb pizza recipe that even your kids can make! It’s a huge hit with the whole family. THM-friendly. I don’t watch television with my kids very often. Let’s face it, our interests differ. While they are into cartoon characters with squeaky voices that get into all sorts of silly scrapes, I lean more toward the English aristocracy drinking tea and sniping at each other with wry British humour. But while I may never enjoy Clarence on Cartoon Network, nor be able to convince them to watch Downton Abbey with me on Masterpiece Theater, we have finally found one show we can agree on: MASTERCHEF JUNIOR on FOX. Kudos to this show for being funny, fun, and engaging for all ages. My kindergartner likes it as much as my grumpy tween, so that’s saying a lot. And how can I not be impressed by kids who know what a coulis is, or how to properly caramelize onions? We were eagerly awaiting the Season 4 premiere on November 6th and we were not disappointed. It’s shaping up to be a great season.
My kids love to cook with me and are always asking to help out in the kitchen. I admit that I don’t always encourage this as much as I should. I do firmly believe that learning to cook gives kids lifelong skills and healthy habits, but cooking with kids can take some serious patience. Now that they are all a little older, it’s getting easier and easier. It doesn’t hurt that I can now require them to clean up their own mess! For Mother’s Day last year, my 11 year-old son even gave me a coupon for a homemade dinner for the family. He will shop for the ingredients (using his own money!) and make it all himself, with maybe just a little advice from mum and dad. Chances are it will be something easy, like tacos, but I applaud him for this thoughtful gesture.
It’s a far cry, of course, from the complicated dishes these 8 to 13 year olds are making on MASTERCHEF JUNIOR on FOX. These talented young people aren’t grabbing some ground meat and a little taco seasoning and calling it dinner. They are poaching salmon and rolling out their own pasta and baking complicated desserts. It’s really hard not to get a little addicted to watching this. It’s a refreshing change from the adult version of these sorts of cooking competitions. There’s a lot less ego and bravado involved, and the kids are all really sweet and encouraging to each other. And if you’re used to seeing Gordon Ramsey screaming and flipping out, you are going to be in for a big surprise. He too is sweet and encouraging (as are the other judges). Seeing one young competitor panic when his sauce was burning, Ramsey walked over and talked him through how to save the dish. He pokes a lot of fun at himself during the show, and in the premiere the kids got bash a large papier-mâché piñata of Ramsey’s head to get their MASTERCHEF JUNIOR aprons.
We only discovered the show about a month ago, but my kids have been asking for it almost every night. Thank goodness we are so behind, we can catch up on old seasons. And since the new season airs on Friday nights, it’s begun to replace our usual Friday Movie Night. I love having a little TV time with my three.
The premiere episode is now streaming on FOX NOW – if you missed it, watch now: http://www.fox.com/masterchef-junior/full-episodes So, in the spirit of cooking with kids, I thought I’d bring you a fun, easy, and delicious recipe that my kids love. This past go round, I even enlisted their help to make it. It was seriously chaotic in the kitchen with all three of them. But I channeled my inner Gordon Ramsey and kept my cool, talking them through things, and making sure there were no serious mishaps. And then I made them do all the dishes.
Don’t need to be low carb but want a really great Gluten-Free Pizza Crust? Check out this one from Gluten-Free on a Shoestring.

- 2 1/4 cups THM Baking Blend or 2 cups almond flour and 1/4 cup coconut flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 cup olive oil or melted butter
- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 cup sugar-free tomato sauce
- 3 ounces pepperoni slices
- 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella
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Preheat oven to 325F and grease a 9x13 baking pan well.
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In a large bowl, whisk together the baking blend (or almond/coconut flours), baking powder, garlic powder, and salt. Stir in the eggs, oil or butter, and almond milk until well combined.
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Spread evenly into prepared baking pan, making sure to spread all the way to the edges.
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Bake 18 to 22 minutes, until golden brown around the edges.
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Spread warm crust with tomato sauce (I often make my own by quickly blending 1 cup canned, diced tomatoes with 1/2 tsp garlic powder and a little salt and pepper). Top with pepperoni and cheese, or any other toppings you desire.
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Return to the oven and bake another 10 minutes, until cheese is bubbly and melted. Turn on broiler for just a few minutes to brown the cheese.
Serves 12. Total NET CARBS = 3.04 g.
Food energy: 214kcal
Total fat: 16.91g
Calories from fat: 152
Cholesterol: 62mg
Carbohydrate: 10.77g
Total dietary fiber: 7.73g
Protein: 9.98g
Angela Saver says
My favorite way to cook with our kids is cooking recipes that have 6 ingredients or less, like Sloppy Joes & 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies, but I also love cooking more difficult recipes with our kids that have been in the family for years so that they learn how to make our family favorites! So we don’t have a disaster, I never let them measure over the dish we are preparing. I give them a paper plate to measure ingredients out over in case they spill over.
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Kelly says
I love to bake with my kids. They’re slowly gaining skills and learning to make meals too.
alyssa (everyday maven) says
Those are cute kids Carolyn!! What a fun show to watch together 🙂
Stacy says
Your three kids are so cute!! I have the opposite color combo-2 brunettes and a tow head!!
They love to cook. My little one is superb at egg cracking and beating!
The older ones each have an interest in learning to cook more complex recipes. For now, they’re mastering scrambled eggs, tacos, and crockpot meals. They love cookie and cake baking and decorating! They’re getting good at pies, too! It’s a good lesson in “letting-go” whilst cooking with kids. Fortunately, mine are good “cleaner-uppers!!” ??
Marisa says
My daughter and I love to bake together and make healthy treats for our dog.
Jolene says
Kudos, Carolyn, for letting the kids in the kitchen! I have a hard time with letting mine in, but we love to bake together (especially if it involves the mixer!) and my one daughter has even made scrambled eggs. I am considering making the dried cranberries and letting the girls work on their knife skills, we’ll see when we actually get time! P.S. Those are some gorgeous kiddos you have!!
Erin Ellis says
I love to have my kids help me bake. The love to pour in ingredients and help stir and pour. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
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Jeannie says
Delish!
Louanne says
My son loves to help in the kitchen – we’re currently working on how to cook a medium steak and make Sicilian meatballs. He’s a big Masterchef Jr fan, too. He’s been watching since the first season.
Your little brunette is your mini-me!
Malainie says
Beautiful children. My kids are all grown and long gone. My granddaughter loves to bake as well as cook. She even arranged a chopped chef cooking competition among her friends. When I visit, she’s there in the kitchen with her dad and me as we get dinner ready for when my daughter gets home from her animal patients.
Kat says
I have 2 older girls now, but only the youngest liked to spend time in the kitchen with me.
She loved to add the ingredients and her favorite cracking the eggs, got really good at it.
These days both of my girls are excellent and healthy cooks.
Mami2jcn says
We like to bake muffins together.
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Jessie C. says
I love baking dark chocolate brownies and candy cane kiss cookies with kids.
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Sheryl says
Your kids are just beautiful! I have a question: do I need to use almond milk? I don’t have that around normally and would find it more convenient to use some sort of dairy instead. The recipe looks incredibly good and I can’t wait to try it!
Carolyn says
Sure, use a mix of dairy milk and water.
Steven weber says
I let them organize the cheese and cracker and relish trays when we have company over
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Cheryl Kelly says
Great idea!
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Katie says
My 5 year old son helps me bake and loves measuring out ingredients.
Jan says
I have no children, but I think it’s important to let kids learn to cook easy things when they’re young and enthusiastic. Your kids are so cute and apparently eager to learn to cook 🙂
Sheri says
Baking has always been the best way to start introducing my kids to cooking. Your kids are adorable!
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Kapu says
I just made this today. The crust was a little muffin like. Not sure if thats the texture but it fills my pizza void. Kinda like pizza bread. I’m enjoying it. 🙂
Gina says
My favorite way to cook with my oldest who is 4 years old is to bake cookies.
Leslie says
We love to do all sorts of cooking together, but baking sweets is the favorite.
Cheryl Kelly says
Such cute kids! Wonderful sweepstakes! Need to try your new pizza recipe. Sounds delicious!!
No kids sadly but need to start cooking with my niece and nephews occasionally. I would think there must be something young children can do with each meal if not just the prepping. Would be so much fun! I think I would love doing the whole cookie making with cutting them out and decorating them. I would have everything ready including various color frostings and toppings so they wouldn’t get bored.
You brought me back to my own childhood with this post. I had a brother born with a hole in his heart and Mom and Dad had to go downtown Chicago daily when he was in the hospital in his early years. At 10 and 9, me and my sister learned how to do everything quickly to help out – laundry, cleaning and cooking. You wouldn’t believe some of the dishes we liked to make when there wasn’t a lot in the cupboards. Hot chocolate pudding became hot fudge sauce for ice cream. Peanut butter and sugar became unbaked cookies and we tried all the bisquick recipes 🙂 Through the years, I became quite a cook and my sister quite the baker. We progressed to much more complicated recipes, one of which was Mom & Dad’s favorite – Chicken Divan (and not the casserole with curry powder but the one with a white sauce). We liked to surprise them with a nice meal after they bowled on Sundays. Although we grew up much faster than normal it was also a blessing. Going off to college and then living on our own, we were already confident, accomplished cooks and knew how to do laundry too. The only issue my college roommates had was that I knew how to cook for 8 people and always had leftovers in the fridge with green growing things. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Carolyn says
Wow, Cheryl. I was cooking at an early age too but not out of necessity like you.
Stephanie Otis says
I have always had the kids in the kitchen!! Some of the best memories I have of my grandmother are from the kitchen. I learned a lot from her. My kids liked helping cook dinners but their favorite was cookies and brownies. My daughter still helps me with holiday baking and she’s 18 now. Some of our best conversations have been while cooking together?
Maria Dillhunt says
My 3 sons are all over 40 now. They can all cook, and they all had fun helping me cook and bake when they were kids.
I remember when my middle son was 8 years old and wanted to make a pie all by himself. He even rolled out the pie crust. I was amazed and he was proud and we all had a great desert for dinner that night.
Tory says
Hi Carolyn, I’m happy to tell you that it was my now grown son who got me started on a low carb way of life… He’s a good and very adventurous cook which I’d like to attribute to the help he gave me in the kitchen while he was growing up! He especially enjoyed ‘project’ cooking, like spaghetti sauce or pie crust…. Getting him to clean up was always a challenge, though. 🙂 He and I have enjoyed watching both the adult and junior MasterChef shows together for years now.
His low carb crust recipe is a bit different, so I’ll be making yours tomorrow for us to try. Thank you, as always! (PS: your blog didn’t arrive til today, the 14th, at about 5pm… Just an FYI .)
Carolyn says
I know, I saw that my RSS feed went out late today. Not sure why, I will be looking more closely at that if it happens again.
Sarah G says
Thanks for the MasterChef junior review. I’ve been wondering about it. Our family LOVES cooking and baking shows. We are just finishing the British Baking Competition on Netflix. The 5 year old isn’t that keen on it because it’s really intense baking and each episode is long. Everyone else likes it a lot though. If you have Amazon Prime I have to recommend the Kids Baking Competition. There aren’t that many episodes but the kids are really sweet and great bakers! That was a really fun one.
Anyway, so how does your pizza differ from your others? It sure looks nice and thick. That is one thing I really love and miss…thick pizza!
Also, I love how all your kids look so much alike but with different shades of hair color! Cute! Kids are all so unique no matter how much they are the same.
Carolyn says
This differs from other pizza recipes because it’s so quick and easy. The crust is a bit “bready” but my kids love it. We will have to check out the baking competition! My kids love Cupcake Wars too.
Sarah G says
Well, I’m ALL about quick, easy and bready!
We saw Cupcake Wars once while on a vacation. Will need to watch more.
Sarah G says
Oh, my favorite way to cook with kids is after I’ve had a lot of sleep. lol!
Carolyn says
HAHAHAHA. True.
Amy says
My girls have been cooking and baking with me since they were toddlers. Now that they are 12 and 13, our favorite things to cook together are low carb soups and pizzas. We love to bake low carb desserts like cookies, muffins, cheesecake, brownies, and cakes. Thank you for sharing so many excellent recipes that my daughters and I can enjoy making in the kitchen!
Carolyn says
You’re welcome! The spirit of this post inspired me yesterday to even let my 8 year old make the salad all by herself, chopping the veggies even. I was nervous she’d cut herself but she did great.
Allison says
This looks amazing. Can’t wait to share with my kids!
Teresa says
Well, my kids are grown so now I cook with my grandchildren, Every sleep over with “Nani” usually includes a “Can I Help?” and a chair being pulled to the kitchen counter. They all started with cracking eggs,measuring ingredients and of course stirring. They are quite proud of themselves when they show off their creations to their parents. I purchased a donut pan recently and they think it is really “awesome” to make their own donuts. They are also quite taken with the cake ball maker.
Jenell says
My kids are huge fans of masterchef junior!! And it’s been a good thing in a lot of ways!! They’re less picky about what they eat, are looking for flavors and spices in their food and are much more interested in spending time on the kitchen (except for the cleanup of course ?). But it does take extra grace and patience on moms side ?
Martha says
Fun to cook with your kids! I don’t have my own kids but i know how much my nieces and nephews enjoy it and want to help..at least in stirring.
Jenny Schmidt says
My 5 year old helped me make apple pie last week and LOVED slicing the apples! ?
Cassandra says
My kids are 2 and 4, so they haven’t done a lot yet, but I love their interest. I do try to be patient and let them scoop and measure ingredients and try cracking eggs, etc. It is amazing what those kids on Masterchef Junior can do.
shelly peterson says
The kids love to help in the kitchen. We keep it simple with measuring, mixing and frosting.
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Bethany @ Athletic Avocado says
Low carb pizza that taste like its high carb? YASSS
Laura F. says
We love to watch Master Chef and especially Master Chef Jr.! And yes, as you mentioned, Gordon Ramsey is truly transformed when working with these kids! The 3 judges are great with the kids and a great encouragement to them!
I always love your recipes also and love seeing pics of your kids here! Perhaps they will be future Master Chef Jr. competitors!!
Sabrina Modelle says
How fun! I also love Masterchef Junior. My husband who really has no interest in cooking shows, also loves it, so that’s saying something.
As for cooking with kids, I love that kids are more likely to eat healthy food if they’ve helped you prepare it. I think kids can be way more adventurous with food than we give them credit for, and that’s always fun to see.
Natalie says
My daughter LOVES to mix ingredients in a bowl and help with frosting cakes. When we make homemade pizza, she loves to put the toppings on.
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heather says
I love to cook with kids in the kitchen by having them help me wash the veggies and roll out the dough for pizza night where we all make our own pies.
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
My daughter would LOVE that show. I must watch it with her. And this pizza. SIGN ME UP!
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LOVE seeing kids in the kitchen 🙂 And yours are SO cute!!
sue|theviewfromgreatisland says
What a fun post! i didn’t encourage my girls to cook we me often enough and now I regret it — your three are adorable — those eyes!!
Jes says
Love it….this seems easy and delicious! When putting crust mixture into the pan, do you pat down and spread or will it form on its own?
Carolyn says
You need to spread it to the edges.
jillian says
Oh my, beautiful kids. When I was in grade school in the ancient days of the 50’s we had school lunches that were not too bad. One was “mock” pizza with a crust that was more biscuit like..and I loved it. Recently thought of it and hope this will be yummy in the same way.
Carolyn says
This should be similar…it’s a similar idea!
Carolyn says
My favorite way to cook with my son was to bake chocolate chip cookies! He’s 24 now, but still likes doing it a couple of times a year. Your three are adorable!
Tresa says
I love to cook with my niece. Next time we’ll have to make this pizza and wings and watch this show together to give us more ideas. Maybe this time we can even tempt my nephew into joining us(with no girlie movies on the menu):)
Allison Swain says
My favorite way is making pizzas and tacos with them
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Karen Anthony says
When my granddaughter was 6 she would pour ingredients in the bowl. Last night I asked her if she wanted me to teach her how to cook. It sounds like a wonderful time to spend together!
Shertie Lee says
I like to make chocolate chip cookies with kids. Eating them together warm is yummy and then I send some home with them.
Kris Reeves says
My grandson loves to barbecue with me! He helps me start the grill and fans away the smoke!
Dee says
When my son was small, we would make simple recipes together. He now loves to cook + bake. He’s a much more inventive cook + baker than I am. Growing up, my grandmother had child size bread + pie pans so that when she baked bread + pies, I could, too. I loved to place the leftover strips of pie crust dough onto cookie sheets and sprinkle with sugar + cinnamon. Certain scents from cooking and baking bring us all back to our childhoods; happy more simpler times.
Karen Jo says
Carolyn I have to thank you for giving the option to use basic flours in your recipes! I have been known to ignore one or more good looking recipes because I do not have (or not tried) the product being used. Bless you for being user friendly and giving people options to use their basic ingredients 🙂
Carolyn says
You’re welcome!
Laura Samuelson says
My kids are grown and out on their own but they all know how to cook so they can eat healthily and at less expense even though they don’t always do so!
Stephanie says
I made this for dinner last night and the crust was like mush..I even baked it a lot longer than the 22 minutes and it didn’t matter, it still was like eating a pile of mush..So here is my husband and I scraping off the top of the mush trying to salvage what little we could of our dinner..I had made a cauliflower pizza crust a few weeks ago and loved it..but I had wanted to try a recipe that wouldn’t be as much work so I thought I’d try yours..It wasn’t that I didn’t follw the instructions to a T because I did other than baking it another half hour longer in hopes that it would eventually resemble something akin to a pizza crust:^(
Carolyn says
Well, something went wrong…either got measure incorrectly or your coconut flour was off or something. Because I’ve made this multiple times and no mushy crust. Not sure what it was but sorry it happened to you!
Daytona says
Same happened to me last night. The crust didn’t hold together at all, so we ended up eating the toppings and leaving the crust.
I wish I knew what we did wrong…
Carolyn says
Were you using almond flour and coconut flour? What brands? I wonder if that’s the issue.
Rose says
I made it tonight, mine did the exact same thing. I crumbled terribly.
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Cerissa says
Well, mine turned out perfectly. Thanks for the recipe! I was able to have pizza while my family had the real thing 🙂
p.s. I used a homemade “baking blend.” Maybe these people subbed the coc/almond flour?
Angela Beck says
Mine was mush too, Cerissa.
Karen D says
Love baking cookies with my grandkids
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Cindy F says
My favorite time to cook with the kids is the holidays. They each pick a recipe to make and take to our relatives. Of course, there is also LOTS of cookie baking.
Shanna says
My kids love helping in the kitchen. The older kids like to invent and alter recipes to male it their own. The middle kids like to read recipes and help plan and cook something of their choice. The youngest likes to help chop, mix, mash, and stir. They all help set up, serve, and clean up. It’s a family affair!
Megan says
My favorite thing to do is to bake with my girls. I do think getting them to cook gives my picky eaters a bigger chance of actually trying the dinner meal. Plus I love spending time with them. I didn’t really learn to cook until I was older. I think watching Master Chef is great because I think if a little kid can cook so can I!
Emily R. says
My daughter is 3 and loves helping in the kitchen – baking is the best, she’s a whiz at dumping ingredients and whisking. I’m starting to teach her how to cut veggies (with a plastic knife!) and can’t wait til she’s old enough to really start cooking.
Jenny says
The holidays are my favorite time to cook with my kids. They’re off school so we have more time to make fancier things. They always help me with holiday baking which we give as gifts.
Tricia Goss says
I love to cook with my grandkids. My middle grandson, who is two, enjoys helping me the most. Any time I’m in the kitchen, he asks, “Please? Make?” so I find something age-appropriate for him to do, whether it’s stirring batter or even being my taste-tester.
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Lori Jasper says
My 6 year old niece loves to help cook. I try to prep in advance to get everything ready to a point that she can help with. We’re traveling for Christmas so I will make sugar cookies and put icing in small squeeze tubes. Then she can decorate them when we arrive Christmas Eve so we have cookies ready for Santa. Thank you for all of your great recipes!
Tina Truex says
Love to bake with kids. Let them help measure and pour all ingredients in. Let them learn when young best way to learn.
Jennifer D says
Simple recipes are usually the best!
Jenny B says
My daughter and I started out baking together, mostly treats she likes to eat. But as she has gotten older, she’s 10, she likes to help more with everyday meals. Especially with breakfast.
Kitty says
When my kids were young and I home schooled, we cooked together a lot/ sometimes even calling it math and science!!!
Maggie Pogue says
My oldest boy showed interest in cooking early on and he has done a lot starting with cooking projects in 4H and moving on to winning county fair baking divisions! We both enjoy cooking and we often exchange recipes and have fun making alterations to some that we find.
Mary L says
I’ve taught all of my eleven children to cook and bake. (6 boys/5girls). The youngest wants to be a chef! -He’s 8.We make tons of cookies for Christmas every year and I made one type with each child when they were little and now they can make them by themselves!
Lori Adamson says
I do child care in my home. When having several kids help, I have them sit at the table and I gather all of the ingredients. I walk around the table to each child giving them all a turn at measuring something and then we pass the bowl around so everyone gets a chance to mix.
Jana says
My kids like to help bake everything, but muffins or cookies are the best (with something for them to lick at the end).
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Katie Mast says
my favorite way to cook with my kids is cookie baking. They always look forward to Christmas for all the different kinds of cookies.
Emily says
We love to make creative after-school snacks together
Alexandra robertson says
My favorite way to cook with kids is have them do the mixing. They love getting dirty and helping. Also, they make great taste testers lol. So honest!
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Roxanne says
My little granddaughter likes to help by putting ingredients in and helping stir.
Valerie says
I made this pizza this evening – with cashew milk instead of almond milk (only modification). Unfortunately, the crust turned out dry and crumbly :-(…. I’m not sure if I cooked it a little too long (went the full 22 minutes when I didn’t see browned edges) or if I added too much baking blend as a result of it not being sufficiently “fluffed up” before I measured it. I have tried the pizza crust made with mozzarella cheese, and my husband and I LOVE that one!! One of these days, I hope to make the garlic knots and the desert with chocolate and walnuts that also has the mozzarella-based dough. 🙂
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Brandy r says
My nieces live anything messy! We have so much fun making tacos, spaghetti and decorating cookies at holiday time!
Menaka says
Made this just a few minutes ago. The crust is all crumbly, no clean cut here. It’s a mess.
I used almond flour + coconut flour.
Carolyn says
What brands did you use?
Diana says
When my son was 6, I always let him choose what he wanted to take to school for lunch. He would watch me fix it every night, but when he came home the next day, his entire lunch would be virtually untouched. At some point, he asked if he could make his own. After that, he would stand on a stool at the stove and make refried beans, roll them up in tortillas with cheese and sour cream and then make some cut up fruit. He explored making many different foods, and he ate every bite he made every day. Not to be outdone, my 8 year old daughter asked to make her own lunch, too. By the time my youngest one was in kindergarten, he just figured that all kids made their own lunches. Now, they are all grown with kids of their own, and every one of their kids–ages 3, 7, 8, & 9, is a fantastic junior chef!
Jessy says
I just wanted to know if the crust needs to be baked at 325F. Its more than 25 mins and i don’t see it becoming brown.
Carolyn says
The instructions as written should work. Please follow.
Laura Conrad says
Tried making this crust using Honeyville almond flour and let’s do coconuts coconut flour. After 325 for 22 minites, still mush. What brands of almond flour and coconut flour did you use?
Carolyn says
Honeyville and Bob’s Red Mill. This is curious to me because some people say it’s too dry and crumbly and yours is mushy. And mine has never ever been an issue. I don’t get it!
Laura Conrad says
I turned the temp up to 425 and cooked another 10-12 min. until edges started browning like you said. It was just a tad crumbly. It tasted awesome! Kids loved it!
Jackie says
What is in the T-MOBILE baking mix please
Lynn Gies says
I’m new to this low carb cooking & baking. I made this pizza tonight & I was really disappointed. I followed the recipe to the letter but I’m wondering if I somehow ruined it. Any feedback?
Carolyn says
I can’t give you any feedback until you tell me what you didn’t like about it 🙂 Also, tell me what brands of almond flour and coconut flour you used as that is often the issue.
Marie McC says
I just made this using Bob’s Red Mill flours. Followed the recipe exactly, baked the crust for 20 mins, baked the finished pizza another 10 and it came out PERFECT! My oven is only two years old. That probably helps.
This is my first time using almond flour. I was amazed at how filling one slice was! I couldn’t imagine being satisfied with only one what I consider small piece, but after some vegetables on the side, I couldn’t have finished it if it were any bigger. One thing to note, I would have liked to have known the weight equivalent of 1.5 cups of shredded mozzarella. I only had 8 oz, and I felt it could have used more.
This pizza was really tasty, and I’m very happy with it. Next time, though, I’ll only make half. I live alone and am going to have to freeze some of this.
Thanks, Carolyn!
Sami says
Hey could I use just regular flour?
Carolyn says
I think you should look up a similar recipe that uses flour, because the amounts would be very different.
Food explorer says
This recipe is genius! Please add the serving size to the nutrition notes at the end of your recipe. Is the calorie, protein, carb information listed for one slice of pizza? Thank you so much!
Carolyn says
The serving size is simply 1/12th of the pan. Should be easy to figure out when cutting into a pan pizza.
Naomi says
Recipe looks great! I love the THM baking blend!! We love to bake together and to make playdough and other fun things. Thanks for the chance to win.. I LOVE your blog!
Carrie says
I enjoy baking with my kids and I promise that this pizza will be a regular around here. Thanks for sharing.
Steph J says
I enjoy cooking with my oldest. He likes helping make pizza too!
Kathy Winters says
It’s been years since I have had an opportunity to cook with a child but now that I am grandmother, I am so looking forward to teaching her all about cooking and baking. First, is going to be cookies because they are something easy that she can help with.
Julie says
I used the THM baking blend, although the taste was OK. I followed all directions, The dough was dry and crumbly. ? I baked it at the right temp and time. I won’t make it again!
Carolyn says
You know, I have to wonder if they changed the formulation of the blend since I last bought it (which was quite some time ago, I prefer using almond and coconut flour). Because I had no problems with this and I have made it many a time, both ways!
Julie says
Thanks, I guess I can try that next time. So sad because there’s only 2 of us and now we won’t finish it. Do you think if I half the recipe I can bake it In an 8×8 pan?
Amber says
Mine was also super dry. So disappointing. I guess I’ll have to keep searching for the perfect keto pizza crust.
Jennifer Lockwood says
We tried this using the bob’s red mill low-carb baking mix. It was a little dry, but it also almost doubled in size, so we ended up with a very thick crust. I think next time I’m going to half the recipe and see if that works. Otherwise, the flavor and texture were good.
Carolyn says
I don’t use that at all so I am not sure if that was the problem.
Heather says
Any suggestions on making the crust crispier? I used 2c almond flour and 1/4c coconut flour and followed the baking directions and it came out very soggy almost like it was just mixed in with the cheese and pepperoni.
Carolyn says
Its’ not meant to be crisp but nor is it meant to be soggy like that. Most people actually find it on the dry side so I really don’t know what happened for you.
Sue Bambenek says
I made your pizza tonight. I’m new to THM and the dough was very crumbly. I don’t have the THM Baking Mix yet. I was wondering if that might be why.
My husband is being dragged along on my journey because he has heart issues and needs to loose over 100 lbs. So any advice you can give will help.
Carolyn says
I wish I could tell you. I’ve made it both ways and never had an issue.