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Grilled Chocolate Pizza

September 3, 2015 Updated March 21, 2025 by Lisa Goldfinger 4 Comments This post may contain affiliate links

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If you want to make the kids (and adults) at your summer barbecue extremely happy, make Grilled Chocolate Pizza! You also might want to let everyone pitch in to help make it. This delicious and easy dessert pizza is as fun to make as it is to eat!

Grilled Chocolate Pizza: a fun, festive dessert, great for cooking with kids!

If you follow Panning The Globe, you know that this is a very different kind of post for me. I usually share recipes from specific countries and most of my recipes are savory. But earlier this summer I made grilled chocolate pizzas with my little nieces Bobby and Cassidy, and it was so much fun for them and for me that I just had to share.

It’s a fun, festive dessert and a fantastic cooking project to do with kids. The grilled dough is a perfect blank canvas for creative expression with any variety of toppings.

My nieces, Bobby and Cassidy, live in Los Angeles and I don't see them often enough. But lucky for me, they fly east every summer to spend some time with the family - most of us live in the Boston area. When they're in town, we have several big fun get-togethers with aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins. But at the end of the festivities I sometimes feel like I didn't have a chance to connect with everyone - especially the littlest ones.

So a year ago when they were in town, I invited them over to cook with me, and we made chocolate pizza. We had a great time. This year when they came I asked them if they wanted to come over and cook with me again. They said "YES!" I asked them what they wanted to cook this time.  In unison, they said "CHOCOLATE PIZZA!" I asked them if they were sure they didn't want to try something different? YES THEY WERE SURE!!!

Bobby and Cassie

It was a beautiful day to cook outside. We started with a ball of prepared pizza dough that I bought at Whole Foods. It was ready to roll. I divided it in half so Bobby and Cassie would each have their own chocolate pizza to design.

Another good reason to make individual pizzas is that the crusts are a lot easier to slide on and off the grill when they're smaller.

After rolling.....

rolling out the dough for pizza

and stretching...

cooking with kids - grilled dessert pizza
making chocolate pizza with kids

They were ready to brush their dough with oil - the final step before grilling.

brushing the dough with oil

Then we (I) flipped the pizzas onto the hot grill, oiled-side down.

Once the bottom sides of the pizzas were browned, I flipped them over so the bottoms became the top, let them cool for a minute or two, and the girls spread the sauce (Nutella) on top.

grilled pizza topped with Nutella as the first layer
Spreading the chocolate on the pizza

The final and most fun part of all was the decorating.

Chocolate pizza decorating

....and sampling all of the decorations....

delicious toppings!

Then the chocolate pizza creations went back on the grill for just a few minutes - to brown the bottom, soften the chocolate and toast the marshmallows and coconut.

how to make grilled chocolate pizza

Tada!

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If you make this grilled chocolate pizza, I hope you'll come back to leave a star rating. My nieces and I would love to know what you think!

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Grilled Chocolate Pizza - fun to make and eat!

Grilled Chocolate Pizza


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  • Author: Lisa Goldfinger
  • Total Time: 40 mins
  • Yield: 4-8 1x
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Description

A delicious and easy dessert pizza that's as fun to make as it is to eat!


Ingredients

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  • 1 ball store-bought fresh pizza dough (1 pound)
  • Light cooking oil
  • 1 jar of chocolate spread, such as Nutella

Toppings - any of the ones below or your own:

  • Chocolate chips
  • Butterscotch chips
  • White chocolate chips
  • Mini Marshmallows
  • M&M's
  • Kisses
  • Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
  • Shredded coconut
  • Sliced Bananas
  • Potato chips

Instructions

  1. Heat the grill to medium-high. Divide dough in half. Roll and stretch out each piece on a lightly-floured surface to make two 10-inch rounds. Brush tops with lightly with oil. Place dough rounds on grill, oiled-side down. Close cover and cook for 4-5 minutes until underside is golden brown. Pop any large dough bubbles that form on top with a knife or by pinching.Transfer rounds to a heat-proof work surface, grilled side up and let them cool for a couple of minutes. Turn the grill down to medium.
  2. Frost the tops with chocolate spread and decorate with the toppings of your choice.
  3. Using two spatulas, carefully return decorated pizzas to the grill. Close top and cook for 2-4 minutes, until pizzas are heated through and toppings are lightly toasted.
  • Prep Time: 30 mins
  • Cook Time: 10 mins
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Grill
  • Cuisine: Out of this World

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  1. Frog Price

    October 27, 2022 at 12:33 pm

    My favorite dessert to make is a Chocolate Burrito made with a flour tortilla the same as above using chocolate syrup and chocolate ice cream. Top with chocolate whip cream. A minute on a Foreman grill does the cooking.

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  2. allie @ Through Her Looking Glass

    September 08, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    So much fun with auntie!!!! I would say Chocolate Pizza too. (If someone asked me that is....:) Great idea Lisa and so much fun. This would make a great and fun kids' birthday party activity!

    Reply
  3. Bobby

    September 05, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    Chocolate pizza tastes very delicious. I'm Bobby - the older girl in the pictures. Try making it!!
    I'm Cassidy - of course the littler one. I've baked chocolate pizzas with Lisa every year. It's really fun! You should try making it! All you need to do is make the dough, stretch it out and for the tomato sauce, put nutella! And for the cheese, put all types of tasty ingredients. Once you eat a slice, you think it's really good!!! Try making chocolate pizza!!

    Reply
    • Lisa

      September 06, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      Bobby and Cassie, you two are the best! Thanks for leaving such great comments on my blog. I had such a great time cooking with you. I miss you!!!

      Reply

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