Tell me more ×  I like to experiment with my pizza recipe, and I
love the taste of butter. Right now my pizza dough recipe is
something like this:  2 cups of flower   3/4 cup of water   1 ts
of yeast   2 ts of honey   1 spoon of olive oil  That's it if
remember correctly.  How and when can I add butter to this? Or
is it better to add it to the sauce?  share|improve this
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You won't get a buttery taste from adding butter to the dough.
Even in fat-rich batters like pound cake, the difference between
butter and a neutral fat is subtle - it is there, but it doesn't
taste like biting into a buttered toast. And in a pizza, you
can't add such amounts of fat to the dough, because it will
interfere with gluten production, resulting in the wrong dough
texture.  If you are prebaking the pure base at some point,
putting butter on top of it will give you some buttery taste.
But most pizza recipes call for immediate baking with the sauce,
if not toppings, without