Chocolate Pizza (Japan)

Chocolate Pizza
Chocolate Pizza

Chocolate

Originally from Japan, this Chocolate (Sweet) pizza is a delightful Dessert pizza you may enjoy.

Baked as shown, this pizza style luscious flavor paired with a incredible scent to enjoy.

Ensure you choose excellent toppings and add them to a fantastic crust for you and friends to savor a perfect meal together.

If you’re in the mood for a Dessert pizza with No sauce sauce here is the sign you need to get one.

Making pizza at home can be such a rewarding experience! One reason is that you have complete control over the ingredients and can make it to your liking, whether that means using whole wheat crust, homemade sauce, or adding extra veggies for a healthier option. You can also get creative and try new topping combinations that you might not find at a restaurant.

Another reason is that it can be a fun activity to do with friends and family. Gather around the kitchen, roll out the dough, and let everyone create their own personal pizza with their favorite toppings. It’s a great way to bond and make lasting memories.

Additionally, making pizza at home can save you money and also it’s a more healthier option than ordering out or getting takeout. You can choose the quality of ingredients and you can use fresh and healthy ingredients. It’s also a great way to show off your cooking skills and impress your guests and loved ones. All in all, making pizza at home is a fun, delicious, and satisfying way to enjoy one of the world’s favorite foods. Give it a try, you won’t regret it!

Pizza in Japan

Pizza is very popular throughout Japan, and they offer the classic flavours, as well as a number of Japanese takes on pizza. Popularity grew in the 1970’s, when family-oriented Pizza chain restaurants spread across Japan.

Take a look at some of the other pizzas from Japan here.

Chocolate Pizza at a glance
Origin Japan
Type Dessert
Sauce No sauce

Chocolate Pizza Recipe

Below we’ve put together a recipe for you to make your own homemade Chocolate Pizza either in your pizza oven or your kitchen oven.

Preparation time
Dough 2 hours
Assembly 10 minutes
Baking 12-20 minutes

Chocolate Pizza Ingredients

Choose enough pizza toppings for the amount of pizzas you plan to make. The pizza sauce and dough ingredients below are designed for 3-4 pizzas, so scale up or down, based on your requirements.

Chocolate Pizza

Simple Pizza dough

  • 250 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
  • 2 2/3 cups (400 grams) 00 fine flour
  • 7 grams (2 tsps) dried yeast
  • 1/4 cup (3 tbsp) olive oil
  • 2 tsps salt

Chocolate Pizza Toppings

Toppings used in this pizza recipe, are;

  • Milk Chocolate
  • Chocolate Flakes

Chocolate pizza recipe

Tomato Pizza Sauce

  • 1 can (15oz/420g) crushed or diced tomatoes
  • 1 small can (6oz/170g) tomato paste
  • Two garlic cloves
  • 1 tbsp dried Italian herbs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/4 small brown onion

Want to try a different sauce? See our article on the different types of pizza sauces.

TIP

You can click on any of the tags at the bottom of this page, to find other pizzas besides Chocolate Pizza, that use that topping.

Homemade pizza dough

Pizza Dough Method

You can purchase a premade pizza base at your local shop or make your own dough following the simple steps below.

  1. Whisk yeast and lukewarm water in a jug. Leave sitting for roughly five minutes.
  2. Add flour and salt in a large bowl. Create a well in the centre of the flour. Pour in the liquid yeast mixture and the oil.
  3. Using dough mixer or hands, gently mix dough until smooth. Place pizza dough on a lightly floured work surface and then knead by hand for five minutes.
  4. Lightly oil a bowl, and place mixture in and cover with plastic wrap. Leave in a warm place to rise until the dough doubles in size.
  5. Pour dough mix out onto a clean, floured surface. Now hand knead gently for another five minutes.
  6. Divide dough mixture into equal sized balls. Hand stretch or roll out the bases to the expected size.
  7. Spread some flour on kitchen bench before rolling, in order to prevent sticking.

TIP: We have other dough recipes if you would like to try your hand at sourdough, poolish or more.

Tomato Pizza Sauce

Tomato Pizza Sauce Method

You can either make your own tasty pizza sauce following the simple steps below, or you can purchase a pizza sauce at your local supermarket.

  1. Blend all sauce ingredients in a large bowl.
  2. Ensure all ingredients are mixed together well.
  3. Keep mixture sitting for five minutes.
  4. Your sauce is now ready to add to your pizza bases.
  5. Sauce will last up to 3 days in fridge.

Make sure to use a ladle or the back of a serving spoon to spread your sauce onto the dough so as not to damage it.

Chocolate recipe

Preparing Chocolate Pizza

Preheat your oven to roughly 500 degrees.

Roll out the dough to either slightly smaller than your pizza stone or tray.

Alternatively, if you have a pizza peel, roll out to be smaller than that.

You start by spreading the sauce around. This pizza calls for No sauce. Spread the No sauce evenly using the back of a large spoon or ladle.

Then start adding the largest ingredients, then work your way down. The last is any cheese topping, such as Mozzarella, which you should evenly cover the other toppings with, and then finally any herbs.

Toppings to put on this pizza are;

  • Milk Chocolate
  • Chocolate Flakes

Whilst this pizza is fantastic on its own, or why not pair it with another pizza as well?

Baking time

Put the Chocolate pizza in the middle of your oven (on a stone if you have one) and set timer for 10 minutes.

After roughly 10 minutes, check on the pizza.

Pizza should be ready within 15 minutes. However, allow it to cook to personal taste.

Dessert pizza

About Chocolate

Chocolate is made from Cacao bean. The Aztecs valued the cacao bean so highly, they used it as currency. There is evidence that humans in Ecuador were eating cacao products around 5000 years ago.
Chocolate is time consuming to make, and it takes about 400 beans to make a single pound of Chocolate. 70 percent of the world’s cacao comes from Africa. Dark chocolate contains heaps of antioxidants, which help your cardiovascular system.

Pizza from Japan

Pizza Tools

When making Chocolate Pizza, I always recommend that you use what you have available, without spending lots of money. My basic pizza tool list is…

Glass Measuring Jug

I hate taking chances with portions, so having a quality glass jug with clear to read measurements a vital kitchen tool for me.

Chef Apron

OK, not really pizza related, but a good chef apron makes me feel the part when I am making my pizzas. I’d probably wear a chef hat if I got one too!

Pastry Brush

A pastry brush is vital if you need to ever coat your dough in water, oil, eggs or more. They are cheap to have and very handy to use.

 

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Chocolate Flakes

Chocolate is one of the most beloved treats around the world. Not only does chocolate taste great, it’s packed with antioxidants and can also boost moods.

When it comes to chocolate as a pizza topping, there are a variety of options that will have you begging for more.

Chocolate Flakes

Strange Pizza Facts

Here are some facts about pizza.

Most pizzas made in 12 hours (team)

The Asociación Propietarios de Pizzerías y Casas de Empanadas de la Argentina (Argentina) in Buenos Aires, Argentina used five ovens to make 11,089 pizzas between 8.00am and 8.00pm on 11 November 2018.

The most popular pizza cheese

You guessed it! Mozzarella is one of the most popular pizza toppings around the world, no matter what country you are in.

We love maths

There is a mathematical theorem named after pizza cutting. The pizza theorem is so called because it mimics a traditional pizza slicing technique. It states that the equality of two areas that arise when one partitions a disk in a certain way.

 

Dessert Pizzas

Keen on seeing more than Chocolate pizza? We have plenty of other Dessert pizza recipes to look at, as well. Enjoy!

 

Pizza making FAQ

Hope to make fantastic pizza at home? Here are some expert answers to some of the most Frequently asked questions.

How long do I bake my pizza?

The pizza baking times depend on the oven you are using. An average kitchen oven set to 500F should cook a pizza well in 12 to 15 minutes. A wood-fired oven hotter than 750F will cook a pizza in 2-3 minutes.

Can I use brown sugar when making pizza dough?

Yes, however I personally prefer white sugar. I feel it helps feed the yeast better, however all of pizza dough making is constant experimentation, so try it out with brown sugar and you may be surprised with the results!

How to defrost pizza dough?

You should defrost frozen pizza dough by leaving it in a warm place for at least a few hours. You can also then use the defrost mode on your microwave to speed up the process a little.

Chocolate pizza from Japan

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