Please note that there is no bread in these “breadsticks”! They just taste like bread. :)

I made this recipe a couple weeks ago and it was so good that just looking at the pictures now is making me giddy about it all over again. And I’m not really the giddy type, lol (unless I’m antique shopping for blog props…yes, really!).

Let me back up a sec…

Lately I’ve been seeing cauliflower crust pizza recipes pop up all over the place. It seemed like the new fad, so of course I didn’t want to make it. When it comes to food, I’m drawn to the real deal with things like pizza and breadsticks, and I didn’t see how a “crust” made out of cauliflower could be good, let alone reminiscent of a real crust.

The other day when a friend called asking if I’d tried cauliflower crust pizza and I said no, she insisted I do so in no uncertain terms…she even threatened to not make her veggie-stuffed-and-smothered chicken breasts for me again until I try it. (Her veggie-stuffed-and-smothered chicken breasts are killer, so this is huge in my world.) She was as giddy about cauliflower crust then as I am now.

I agreed to make cauliflower crust, but as breadsticks instead of pizza. (As far as I’m concerned, pizza, specifically New York-style, holds a special place in my heart and a cauliflower-crusted imposter has no place masquerading there.)

So I made the breadsticks.

I took my first bite and had to stop and really enjoy what I was eating. Never would I have thought that a simple mixture with cauliflower as the base ingredient could actually taste like bread. It’s mind-blowing, really. For someone who eats low-carb or can’t eat regular bread because of allergies or for any other reason, I can see this recipe being a go-to.

Mike ate his fair share too, admitting that it actually did taste like bread. (And he is one tough critic.)

Something I noticed about this recipe is that if you let it cool for about 10 minutes after taking it out of the oven, the crust will harden a bit so it’s easy to hold like a thin-crust pizza. Straight out of the oven it’s delicious too, just much softer.

In random order, here are some recipes from around the web for more cauliflower crust inspiration:

Cauliflower Crust Hawaiian Pizza by Recipe Girl

Cauliflower Pizza Crust by One Good Thing by Jillee

Cauliflower Bread Sticks by Sandy’s Kitchen

Cauliflower Crust Pizza by Stick a Fork in It

Cauliflower-Crust Vegetarian Pizza with Mushrooms and Olives by Kalyn’s Kitchen