Thanks to store-bought (or homemade) pizza dough, you can make this easy buffalo chicken pizza with shredded chicken tossed in buffalo wing sauce and cheddar cheese.
How to Make Crazy Good Buffalo Chicken Pizza Sticks
This buffalo chicken pizza is so incredibly easy. You can use homemade pizza dough or buy pre-made dough from the store.
For the buffalo chicken, we toss shredded cooked chicken with a whole cup of buffalo wing sauce. You can make our tender and flavorful shredded chicken recipe or buy a store-bought rotisserie chicken and shred that.
We spread the chicken on top of partially cooked pizza dough and finish with lots of cheese. Then we slide the buffalo chicken pizza into a hot oven and bake until the crust is crisp and the cheese is melted.
This pizza is a crowd pleaser. If you are serving a crowd, try cutting the pizza into pizza sticks.
This Recipe was sponsored by Pillsbury
Buffalo Chicken Pizza Sticks
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These pizza sticks are absolutely perfect for parties or a fun dinner. It’s fast, too. Plus, store-bought buffalo wing sauce makes things extra easy. You can find buffalo wing sauce sold next to hot sauces – it looks a little creamier than regular hot sauce. You can also make your own. If you are not a fan, substitute your favorite barbecue sauce.
You Will Need
1 (13.8 ounce) roll Pillsbury Classic Pizza Crust or 12 ounces refrigerated pizza dough
3/4 cup buffalo wing sauce, see our homemade buffalo sauce recipe
2 cups shredded cooked chicken, see our tender shredded chicken recipe
4 ounces cheddar cheese, coarsely grated (about 1 cup)
4 ounces mozzarella cheese, coarsely grated (about 1 cup)
2 green onions, thinly sliced
Directions
- Prepare Crust
1Heat oven to 400 degrees F . Spray a baking sheet (with sides) with nonstick cooking spray.
2Form pizza dough into a 15-inch by 10-inch rectangle (this doesn’t have to be exact, just close). Place dough onto the baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes.
- Make Buffalo Chicken
1While the pizza crust bakes, add buffalo wing sauce and shredded chicken to a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, 3 to 5 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
- To Finish
1Spread the buffalo chicken over the pre-baked pizza crust then scatter the cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese and half of the sliced green onions on top.
2Bake the pizza 6 to 10 minutes until cheese has melted and starts to bubble. Scatter remaining sliced green onions on top. Then serve cut into 16 pizza sticks.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Recipe update: After some of our readers have made this recipe and commented about their experience, there seems to be a significant range in how spicy store-bought buffalo wing sauce is. If you are sensitive to spicy foods, look for sauce labeled “mild.”
- Nutrition facts: The nutrition facts provided below are estimates. We have used the USDA Supertracker recipe calculator to calculate approximate values.
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I love this recipe! It’s fantastic n I didn’t change anything! I lost my 1st copy so bad to come back for another try again. Thank you for your website, I go there for alot of your recipes they are fantastic!!!
Here’s a Tip…IF you use Franks Hot sauce…Or any other hot sauce…It helps ALOT If you put a stick of butter while heating up hit sauce in a pan…the butter calms down the acidic taste and spreads the hot sauce better ..hope this helps..it works for me and that’s how I get my kids to eat buffalo wings…works for ALL of the hot sauces for buffalo wings ..
This was absolutely delicious. I did try up the chicken so it would be crispy. Then we made half with homemade ranch as the base and half with extra buffalo sauce. Both were great. Thanks for the recipe?
I made this and mine turned out fabulous! I did alter the recipe by using 1/2 amount of buffalo wing sauce and 1/2 regular BBQ sauce. It was still very spicy but manageable. I will definitely make this again!
Great recipe! I had to use BBQ Rib Sauce instead though because in Australia, it’s hard to find Buffalo Sauce. Is there a better alternative that is available?
Hi Jeremy, Check out our hot wings recipe. We share a DIY buffalo sauce there — you can use that in place of store-bought buffalo sauce.
Great tip for shredding chicken/cooked meat. Put in your stand mixer with the regular “paddle” attachment and turn up the power slowly until it’s strong enough to shred the chicken, without redecorating the ceiling with meat!
I definitely will try this recipe. I wanted to share something yummy with you. I like to mix shredded chicken with buffalo sauce and some shredded Parmesan. Then roll it up egg roll style in egg roll wrappers and deep fry. My husband likes to dip them in ranch dressing.
If you REALLY wanna turn it into a “passion killer” along with all the green onions, add crumbled blue cheese! There’s lots of room to experiment, so add what you want. I also mix the sauce (all of it) with a shredded rotisserie chicken I buy in the deli of the grocery store, wrap it up, and let it sit overnight in the fridge so the chicken has time to soak up all the flavor of the sauce. Love this pizza! Every time I take it to a party it’s gone in 30 seconds haha 🙂
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and tips for next time!
I just wanted to say that I found this recipe on Pinterest, and OMG it is amazing. I first made it for Superbowl, but it has since become a staple in our house and I’ve told several people about it!
Thank you!!
Nice! So glad you found us.
This is on regular rotation at my house! It’s fabulous with gorgonzala crumbles. If we don’t have any on hand, I add just a couple tablespoons of lite bleu cheese dressing to the base. So glad you shared this recipe!
We’re glad you enjoy it!