5 minutes is much, much too long to bake without toppings. I bake "pizza
rounds" with leftover pizza dough. You "throw" the round on a 500F stone for
1 min. 45 seconds and remove it. The bubbles in the center will drop when
you touch them. OR, you can scatter onion on the pizza, and it won't have to
be concerned with that. I freeze these, and use them to make an emergency
pizza when necessary.
If you can't make the crust and the toppings cook in the same time you
usually are doing something wrong. Heat your stone as hot as your oven will
go for 45 minutes. Make sure you have the right stone. .5 - .75 " thick.
Make certain your dough recipe makes crispy thin Pizza Margharita crust.
Most use too dry a crust. Pizza dough should be wet, though not as wet as
the one I made tonight!
There are rare exceptions to cooking everything at once. Tonight I made a
smoked salmon pizza. You put the salmon on along with goat cheese when the
pizza comes out of the oven.
Good Luck
Kent

"Jake" > wrote in message
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>I have a good pizza crust recipe that makes a nice thin and crispy crust.
>Before putting on the sauce and the toppings, I cook the crust for five
>minutes on a pizza stone that has been preheated at 450 degrees so that it
>will not get soggy. However, as it cooks big bubbles arise in the crust so
>that it is very bumpy and hard to get sauce to stay on. Any suggestions?