User:Edward L. Lynn/Breakfast Pizza

Breakfast Pizza (or Eggs Benedict Pizza) is an American pizza recipe first created by the American pizza pioneer Wayne Lynn who is sometimes called the "Johnny Appleseed" of American Pizza for his travels across America in the 1970's and 1980's selling his recipes and systems, which largely resulted in the popularity of Take & Bake pizza and contributed to the popularity of pizza in the United States in general, which exploded during that period.

Breakfast Pizza is made by saucing a pizza crust with either cheese sauce or Hollandaise sauce (the latter is for the Eggs Benedict Pizza variety, which was the original recipe created by American pizza pioneer Wayne Lynn), then topped with ham or sausage, then crumbled, scrambled eggs, and then a light sprinkling of cheese (usually a cheddar) to hold the layers together.

The Breakfast Pizza recipe was originally created by Mr. Lynn for the Kickapoo chain of convenience stores in the midwestern USA, which wanted to use it's pizza shop in the morning, and is today commonly found in American convenience stores during the morning hours of the day, and can also be found in some restaurants and pizzerias.

A trend which has emerged since the 1990's has been to crack an egg or several eggs open onto the top of the pizza prior to baking. Sprinkling the pizza with chopped parsley has also become popular.