Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza on Whole Wheat Crust

The other night my husband told me he was in the mood for homemade pizza for supper. Me, being the amazing wife that I am, rounded up the only ingredients I had to make a pizza. This is one of my favorites that I came up with a few months back. My version of Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza!

Typically I buy a packaged crust that only requires you to add water to it; however, I didn't have any in my cupboard so I was forced to make dough from scratch. And since I was making it from scratch, I figured I might as well make it slightly healthier than a typical pizza dough.

Ingredients for Crust:

*1 tbl sugar

*1 1/2 cups warm water

*1 tblsp active dry yeast (1 pkg)

*1 tblsp extra virgin olive oil

*1 tsp salt

*2 cups whole wheat flour

*1 1/2 cups white flour, divided

I hate the idea of having to let a dough rise for an hour, only to punch it down, knead, and then let rise again for yet another hour. I'm so impatient, and besides that, I really didn't have time for that last night. The way I did it worked fine for me, and afterall, it is just a crust...it doesn't have to be perfect, right? Good.

Directions for Crust:
*In a large bowl, dissolve sugar in warm water. Add yeast to sugar water and let sit for about 10 minutes. It should start to look bubbly/foamy.
*Stir in oil and salt.
*Add the wheat flour and 1 cup of the white flour. Don't add it all at once, instead, slowly add it a cup at a time so you can work it in together when stirring.
*Once the first 3 cups are incorporated fairly well, pour the remaining 1/2 cup of white flour out onto a clean surface. Dump the dough on to it and work/knead it until the flour is completely incorporated into the dough. Should take 5-10 minutes.
*Place ball of dough in a greased oven safe bowl, roll the ball around to coat with grease, and then cover with wax paper. Place the bowl in the oven and turn oven on to 175 degrees. Do not close the oven door; leave open a few inches.
*While the dough is in the oven, get out a large pizza pan...the biggest one you have, and grease with cooking spray. I prefer using round pizza pans.
*After roughly a half hour in the oven the dough should have risen about twice the size. Take it out and turn oven temperature up to 400 degrees. Then, spread pizza dough out over your prepared pizza pan. Use a fork to poke the dough.
*Brush crust with olive oil, not a lot, just a little.
*Place the pizza pan in the oven for 5-7 minutes. Remove and top with toppings.

Toppings:
*1 can Campbell's Cheddar Cheese condensed soup, other any other generic brand
*About 1 pound ground beef, browned and drained
*5 slices cooked bacon, crumbled (Travis kept eating it, so I'm not sure how much I actually put on the pizza...just saying!)
*1/4 cup diced/chopped dill pickle, kind of up to your own tastes
*1 cup mozarella cheese (can use whatever type of cheese you prefer)

Directions for toppings:
*Basically, add the ingredients onto the par-baked crust in the order listed above :)
*Bake pizza with toppings until the cheese is melted to your liking. I kept mine in at 400 degrees for somewhere around 12 minutes.

This makes a very large pizza with 12 good size slices. Nutritional information is here.

Thanks for looking! Hope you give it a try sometime on pizza night :)