Just when you thought our stuffed crust couldn't get more epic. Our original fresh dough is hand-stuffed with our signature pepperoni and melty cheese then baked into a seasoned crust. Finished with your choice of topping.

What cheese is in a Stuffed Crust Pizza at Pizza Hut? Pizza Hut's stuffed crust is 100% real cheese made from whole milk mozzarella.

Our Epic Pepperoni-Stuffed Crust Pizza is made from our original fresh dough, hand-stuffed with cheese and our signature pepperoni, and baked into a garlicky seasoned crust. Because what's better than our pepperoni ON your pizza? Our pepperoni IN your pizza!

Water, Sorghum Flour, Modified Rice Starch, Tapioca Starch, Teff Flour, Cage Free Egg Whites, Whey Powder, Shortening Flakes (Palm Oil, Natural Butter Flavor, Soy Lecithin), Quinoa Flour, Amaranth Flour, Canola/Olive Oil Blend, Yeast, Sugar, Brown Flax Seed, Salt, Cultured Brown Rice, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavors.

Epic Stuffed Crust delivers on taste and quality, starting with Papa John's original dough, made from only flour, water, sugar, soybean oil, salt and yeast. The dough is then hand stuffed with extra cheese, topped with cheese and the topping of your choice and baked to a gooey, crispy golden goodness.

The new Garlic Epic Stuffed Crust Pizza has our signature garlic flavor stuffed into the cheesy crust and drizzled onto it. And, of course, we serve it with our Special Garlic Dipping Sauce - the flavor that inspired it all!

When Patty Scheibmeir was working as a food scientist at Pizza Hut in the early 1990s, she came up with an innovation that would transform the industry: stuffed crust. By infusing dough with mozzarella, Scheibmeir made crusts more appealing to customers who used to just leave them on the plate.

In 1982, an 18-year-old Mongiello created a pizza pie with a hollow, swelled crust, filling it with delicious ingredients. And thus, the concept of Stuffed Crust Pizza was born.

Stuffed pizza is similar to deep dish pizza, but it is assembled more like a pie. The bottom and sides of a deep dish pan are lined with pizza dough, then stuffed with cheese and toppings. This layer is enclosed by an additional layer of dough on top, like a pie, and then tomato sauce goes over everything.

Papa John's says its version is made with fresh dough. The dough is hand-stuffed with extra cheese using a special tool to ensure that the cheese remains in the crust and doesn't leak out - a problem that the company worked hard to solve.

All pizza dough starts with the same basic ingredients: flour, yeast, water, salt, and olive oil. Here's the breakdown of what I use in my homemade pizza crust recipe. The full printable recipe is below.

So a stuffed crust - is a hand tossed dough - thats stretched an extra inch or so to wrap around string cheese. So the crust can get flaky, but cuz its over stretched - it likely will be thin/limp all over. A Pan crust - is a little larger/thicker set of dough(maybe a half ounce more).

Corporate overlords, Pizza Hut, claim to have invented stuffed crust pizza in 1995. But it turns out the real origins of the dish might actually lay with Brooklyn's Anthony Mongiello, a cheese maker who filed a patent for the revolutionary food in 1987.