Buttercrust Pan Pizza

Where do grandma pizzas end and pan pizzas begin? An eternal question. You know it when you see it. I’d never consider Pizza Hut–type pan pizzas (as much as I loved them as a kid) grandma pizzas.

Growing up in Austin, Texas, there was a bakery in nearby San Antonio called Butter-Krust. The company donated textbook covers to our school, and certain classes (not mine, tragically) got a factory tour. We showed our gratitude as a student body by modifying these covers to read, “Butt Krust.” I remember this every time I recreate the buttery crust signature to Pizza Hut’s pan pizzas of the ’80s, my childhood pizza.