Carson Daly’s Loaded Baked Potato Pizza

Chef notes

Pizza night is a family affair in the Daly household. Carson’s wife, Siri, makes the dough the night before. The next day they’ll set up stations with toppings, their son, Jackson, will roll out the dough and the Daly girls will scatter (and snack on) the mozzarella cheese. After countless pizza nights, Carson says, “We’ve gotten very experimental,” and that’s how this over-the-top pie came to be. Imagine everything in a loaded baked potato — crumbled bacon, shredded cheddar, chopped chives and a sour cream drizzle — in pizza form. “We never really thought it would be as good as it has turned out to be,” he says. “But it’s really, really good.”

Technique tip: If the pizza dough is difficult to work with and is retracting when stretched, cover the dough and let it rest in 10-minute increments.

Excerpted from “TODAY Loves Food: Recipes from America’s Favorite Kitchen.”