Jennifer Garner’s 3-Ingredient Snack Is Ridiculously Simple

And you can use a store-bought shortcut.

Jennifer Garner is responsible for some of our favorite recipes. From her two-ingredient ice cream snack to her five-ingredient pasta dinner, the recipes we find on her “Pretend Cooking Show” almost always join our collection.

That’s why when Garner mentioned something called a “pizza cracker” in a recent “Women’s Health” interview, we knew we had to go back through the “Pretend Cooking Show” archives to find the recipe.

“For dinner, I make mom food,” she told “Women’s Health.” “If I’m cooking, it gonna be a roast chicken, it could be mashed potatoes, twice baked potatoes, it could be rice, it could be pizza cracker—where you just take pizza dough and you bake it and it bubbles up.”

After hearing the words “pizza cracker,” we took to her Instagram, where Garner posts all her cooking videos and information, and scrolled back a few years until we finally found a post showing us what this magical-sounding food actually is. Sure, she explained it as a baked pizza crust, but we weren’t sure if there were additional ingredients or toppings or if we could just throw some pizza dough in the oven and call it a day.

The post brought us back to 2018 when Garner shared her favorite pizza dough recipe and explained that “Years ago [she] rolled out extra dough, brushed it with olive oil, sprinkled it with crushed dry thyme, rosemary and a good dose of salt and [her] family’s favorite bread was born. The kids call it #pizzacracker and it is [her] family’s top request.”

It was a good thing we did our research because olive oil and herbs are key to making the pizza cracker taste delicious.

How To Make Jennifer Garner's Pizza Cracker

Admittedly, Garner’s pizza cracker is incredibly simple to make using your favorite pizza dough recipe—or Garner’s pizza dough recipe. But, I wanted something even simpler, so I opted to use store-bought pizza dough instead of making one from scratch. That way, the whole thing only took me about 10 minutes to make.

The good thing about this recipe is that, once you have your dough ready, you can basically eyeball everything. You can use as much or as little dough as you want and sprinkle as many herbs and seasonings on it as your heart desires.

The key to the pizza cracker is rolling out the dough incredibly thin so that it bubbles up while cooking—and also to keep an eye on it while it’s in the oven. I only baked it for 8 minutes and it got a little brown (as you can see), so I probably should have pulled it out after 6 minutes.

Garner has never really explained how she serves the pizza cracker—whether it’s just as-is, like a crispy pita chip, with a dipping sauce, or even with a plate of meat and cheeses. In the “Women’s Health” interview, it sounds like she serves it as the starch with her main course and salad—but again, whether it’s just eaten plain remains unknown.

While it's tasty on its own, I think it needs a little something more because it really is just like a cracker, and what’s a cracker if not a vessel for something else? I’d probably serve it with soup or a burrata salad—or really anything that you can dip it in. It’d even be delicious with just a bowl of warm pizza sauce for dipping so that it’s truly a pizza cracker.

However you decide to serve it, it really doesn’t get much easier than a hunk of store-bought pizza dough, olive oil, and herbs, so it’s definitely worth giving the recipe a try.