• Preheat the oven

Prepare Your Dough

• Stretch/roll out the pizza dough to make a pizza ~12 inches in diameter
  
• If you use a pizza pan, add thin coat of olive oil.

Prepare the butter and garlic

• Melt your butter in the microwave (approximately 20 seconds)
• Add the garlic to the butter
• Add the salt and pepper to the butter

Prepare the pizza

• Place the dough on the peel or pan. You may need to straighten the edges with your fingers.
• Pour your butter/garlic/salt/pepper into the center of your pizza dough.
• Use a brush to spread the butter in a spiral from the center towards the outside.
  
• Do not butter the edge crust before cooking since butter or garlic can burn.
• Sprinkle the Italian shredded cheese (or your cheese of choice) evenly over the top.

Cooking Time: Pizza in an Indoor Oven

• Cook at 450°F on a pizza pan or cookie sheet
• 7 minutes, then rotate
• 7 minutes, then use a spatula to transfer the pizza to the pizza stone
• The top of the pizza should already be browning, in which case turn the oven off.
• Leave in oven for 5 extra minutes (on a pizza stone if you have one)
• Remove and rest for 5 minutes before cutting and eat immediately.

Cooking Time: Outdoor Pizza Oven

• Cook at >650°F (unless the crust is very thin, in which case ~900ºF)
• 6-8 minutes
• Rotate a quarter turn 4 times.
• Remove and rest for 5 minutes before cutting and eat immediately.