To obtain pizza dough having the same palatability as that of hand-cooked pizza dough by drawing out pizza dough to the outside in the same manner as that of hand-cooked pizza dough to form dough.

The apparatus for forming pizza dough has a central table 12 fixed on a central position, an extension table 14 which is arranged around the central table 12 and is composed of supporting pieces 28 divided into a plurality of parts and radially movable toward the outside and an extension table movement apparatus 18 for radially moving the extension table 14 toward the outside. The method for forming pizza dough comprises forming pizza dough 16 formed by a press in advance into a fixed size of pizza dough by moving the supporting pieces 28 outside.