Yes but strictly to store/frozen bought or restaurant style pizza. Most of these will be made with white flour which contains gluten and that is what your trying to avoid. I do not know about the USA but here in Belgium, there are no pre-made pizza frozen or fresh that are gluten free.
No is because there is in NO reason that you can't settle down to enjoy a pizza that you make yourself! All the toppings you like, pizza sauce, olives, mushrooms, peppers, sausage and more! Even all the cheese you like. The only thing is to make sure that any items you want to add to your pizza are gluten free... some of the ingredients you will have to look closer at are any of the sausage you put on (even the raw butcher style Italian sausage to make sure they don't put bread crumbs in it for filler and the pepporoni since it's a pre-made sausage) and the cheese because there are some out there that add thickening agents to them and 99% of the time it's gluten based. Also be careful of the sauces... most tomato/pizza/spaghetti sauces don't have gluten in them but a lot of the cream based or cheese based sauces do. Just do some label reading before you add the ingredient to your pizza base.
Please remember when putting your ingredients on that when making home made pizza, any raw meats that you wish to put on it, such as Italian sausage from the butcher, MUST be fried/cooked before putting it on your pizza. Home made pizza with freshly made crusts will not cook long enough to cook raw meat. Either that or you will try to cook it long enough that the sausage might be cooked but the rest of the pizza will be burnt. Just use some common sense.
Now, I'm sure you are all asking 'What about the crust... isn't it made with white flour?'. In this case no. There are several pre-made gluten free crusts out there that you can buy but none of them will match up to making your own! Below are a couple of recipes that you can follow. The first one is a 'rising' version that does not need hours to allow the yeast in it to raise but does need about 20mins to 30mins and the second one is a no time to raise type. I'm sure one or the other will make your pizza party night a weekly occurrence!
The first recipe is from my all trusted recipe site http://www.glutenfreeda.com but I do not remember where I found the second one.
'Let Rise' GF Pizza Dough
Ingredients
3/4 cup warm water (105-115°F)
1 Tablespoon sugar
2-1/4 teaspoons dry active yeast
2 cups gf flour
1-1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1-1/2 Tablespoons olive oil
Extra olive oil for forming dough
Directions
In a small bowl combine warm water, sugar and yeast. Stir and proof for about 5 minutes or until foamy.
Mix gf flour and salt in work-bowl of a heavy-duty mixer fitted with a paddle.
Add 1-1/2 tablespoons olive oil to proofed yeast. Pour yeast mixture into flour mixture and mix on medium speed for 6-7 minutes. The dough should be soft enough to cling to the sides of the bowl. If it is too stiff, add warm water, 2 tablespoons at a time until dough softens.
Turn dough out onto a greased pizza pan. Drizzle dough with olive oil and rub your hands with a little olive oil. Press dough into an even layered circle, creating a little lip around outer edges. If it starts to stick to your hands rub your hands with a little more olive oil.
Cover pizza crust with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for about 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 400°F Bake pizza crust for 7 minutes. Remove from oven (keep oven on).
Place your toppings on and bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and lightly browned in spots. Let cool briefly, about 5 minutes. Slice and serve
'No Rise' GF Pizza Dough
Ingredients
1/2 teasp Dried Yeast Granules
240ml/8fl.oz. Warm Water
1 teasp Sugar
100g/4oz Rice Flour
75g/3oz Cornflour
1 tbsp Potato Flour
1 1/2 tbsp Olive Oil
1 teasp Salt
Extra oil for greasing
Directions
In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in half of the warm water, add sugar and mix well. Set aside for 15 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 220C, 425F, Gas Mark 7 and lightly oil a large pizza pan. Prepare the toppings for the pizza.
Place the remaining dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl, add the yeast mixture and mix well, adding the remaining water a little at a time until it is the consistency of a very thick batter.
Pour the dough into the centre of the prepared pizza pan and spread around evenly. Bake at the top of the oven for 5 minutes until lightly set.
Remove from the oven and reduce the oven temperature to 190C, 375F, Gas Mark 5.
Add the toppings of your choice to the pizza. Return to the oven and continue to bake for a further 15-20 minutes.
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