The Best Cauliflower Crust Pizza at the Grocery Store (with a New #1!)

Cauliflower crust pizza was all the rage a few years ago. Thanks to its popularity at pizza places and fancy Italian restaurants, where it became a go-to option for the gluten free among us, it is now widely available to anyone and everyone at the grocery store. But just like regular frozen pizzas, there are a ton of options to choose from. If you, like most of America, get decision paralysis and need a little help making the correct crust decisions, this list is here for your purchasing pleasure. 

Over the course of two separate taste tests, we tried more than a dozen cauliflower crust frozen pizzas. If you’ve never had cauliflower crust pizza, it probably sounds weird. Why cauliflower? Well, our guess is that it’s a nice, neutral tasting filler to bind with ingredients like cheese (a lot of cauliflower crusts contain cheese) and alternative starches like rice flour. That said, we don’t necessarily think cauliflower crust pizza should taste like cauliflower—we were looking for neutrality. Also, even though it’s made with a mushy vegetable, the crust shouldn’t be mushy—ideally, it will be virtually indistinguishable from regular pizza crust, with bite and chew. It should brown nicely, crisp up on the bottom, and not turn to slop under layers of sauce and cheese. 

After our second taste test, a pizza we hadn’t previously tried ended up stealing the title of best cauliflower crust pizza of them all. If the suspense is killing you (even more than the suspense of waiting for a frozen pizza to cook), let’s get into the best cauliflower pizza.  

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best cauliflower crust pizza

Best for Toppings

Good & Gather Gluten Free Cauliflower Crust Four Cheese Frozen Pizza

This cauliflower crust pizza from Target’s Good & Gather brand is a great gluten-free budget option. I deducted a few Sporks from its score because I thought it needed more sauce and cheese. The crust, however, is the star of the show. It’s crisp and flavorful. Since the mozz and tomato sauce don’t make much of an impression, this seems like the best cauliflower crust pizza to load up with toppings. Pile this up with feta, red onions, olives, and some fresh basil after you take it out of the oven and you will be extremely satisfied. —Jordan Myrick

Rating:

7/10

Sporks

milton's roasted vegetable pizza review

Best Veggie

Milton’s Roasted Vegetable Thin & Crispy Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Frozen veggie pizzas can be really hit or miss. When you cook them in the oven, the frozen vegetables release water and leave behind a lot of moisture. The rest of the pie will be piping hot, but the veggies (especially in the middle) are still a little frozen. That is not the case with Milton’s. The veggies really look and taste roasted and they didn’t turn the rest of the pizza into a waterlogged disaster. Even the zucchini, a notoriously watery vegetable, didn’t turn this into a soupy mess. The crust is crunchy, the cheese is melty, and the sauce is flavorful. Still not sold? One of our guest taste testers ate this whole pizza. —Jordan Myrick

Rating:

7/10

Sporks

caulipower three cheese pizza review

Best Basic

Caulipower Three Cheese Cauliflower Crust Pizza

It makes sense that Caulipower makes some of the best cauliflower crust pizzas, because their whole deal is making cauliflower stuff. This tastes a lot like a classic frozen pizza, but the crust is a little mushy. The sauce is a little sweet and has a nice oregano flavor. The crust-to-cheese-to-sauce ratio is appropriate. The center is doughy and the edges are nice and crispy. You probably won’t be able to ignore the fact that you’re eating a cauliflower crust pizza, but you won’t mind either. —Jordan Myrick

Rating:

7.5/10

Sporks

best cauliflower crust pizza

Best Crust

Open Nature Gluten-Free Cauliflower Crust Three Cheese Pizza

If you like Domino’s thin crust pizza, you’ll like Open Nature Gluten-Free Cauliflower Crust Three Cheese Pizza. It’s crackery in a way that I enjoyed, but it has some chew, too. The crust is like crunchy little breadsticks. My favorite aspect is that there are herbs baked into the crust so the crust actually tastes like something. Plus, this cauliflower crust frozen pizza has some of the best melty cheese out of any of the cauliflower crust pizzas we tried. It’s fun when a store brand outdoes the brand names! —Jordan Myrick

Rating:

8.5/10

Sporks

best cauliflower crust pizza

Best Margherita

Best for Cheese Lovers Urban Pie Margherita

This recommendation comes with a BIG caveat: This cauliflower crust pizza is not gluten free. Why would anyone make a cauliflower crust frozen pizza that isn’t gluten free? I truly could not tell you! But if you don’t have a gluten allergy and you simply like cauliflower crust pizza, this is a good one—especially for cheese lovers. It comes topped with big rounds of mozzarella cheese that look sort of like the dehydrated potatoes in a box of potatoes au gratin. Once it’s all melty, the cheese tastes good, too—rich and milky (also the name of my country music duo). The tomatoes are a nice touch—they add savory flavor and a pop of brightness so it isn’t just a big cheese bomb. The crust is good. I wouldn’t know it was a cauliflower crust apart from the fact that it’s a  touch dry. It reminds me of a tavern-style, crackery kind of crust, but there’s some chew, too. It’s one of the best cauliflower crust pizzas—as long as you aren’t GF! —Gwynedd Stuart

Rating:

9/10

Sporks

best cauliflower crust pizza

Best of the Best

Kirkland Supreme Cauliflower Crust Pizza

If I shopped at warehouse stores (I live in a small apartment with no storage and only one other human being!), this Costco cauliflower crust pizza would be a permanent fixture on my shopping list. What a damn delight! It’s so flavorful. The mushrooms? An umami dream. The sausage? Fennel heaven. Everything just works so nicely together. This is one to overcook by just a few minutes—the veggies caused just a little bit of sog in the middle, but the bottom is still very crispy. I think the flavor of the cauliflower crust actually complements everything else that’s going on here. (Oh, and the crust is actually gluten free.) My colleague detected a little bit of gumminess in the crust, but to me it just reads as chew. I can’t believe how savory the sauce is, and there’s actually a good amount. (Hey, brands—put more sauce on your damn frozen pizzas!) This is the best cauliflower crust pizza and an instant Friday night movie night classic. —Gwynedd Stuart

Rating:

10/10

Sporks

Other Products We Tried: California Pizza Kitchen, Life Cuisine (Lean Cuisine), Whole Foods 365, Happi Foods/

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  • Shocking that you still aren’t trying/testing walmart’s Better Goods products! c’mon!

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  • Your reviewing is solid and I like so many aspects of how Sporked assists the consumer- details about the small differences in taste or texture, where to locate the products, and prices. You are all doing the Goddess’s work😋

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  • I’ve had most of these pizzas and love several (the Milton’s is fabulous) but my family is unanimous in thinking that Kirkland brand (Costco) has the best frozen cauli pizzas! Ya’ll should give them a try

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    • So good! My vegetable-hating husband even loves them and eats all the veggies on them!

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