Description
They’re portable, sort of like a mini pizza, except shaped like a cupcake. They’re a great savory snack and a great addition to a game day buffet. Feel free to customize to your family’s tastes with additions like ham, sausage, bell peppers, salami, mushrooms, olives, jalapenos, etc. I recommend not omitting the tomato, that really adds something special.
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 8 medium cherry tomatoes
- 1 (11 ounce) can refrigerated pizza crust
- 8 teaspoons shredded mozzarella cheese
- ½ cup pizza sauce (such as Classico®)
- 8 teaspoons finely chopped red onion
- ½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 8 slices pepperoni, quartered
- Italian seasoning to taste
- red pepper flakes to taste
- garlic salt to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray 8 cups of a muffin tin with cooking spray.
- Finely chop cherry tomatoes and drain any liquid. Set aside.
- Unroll pizza crust on a floured work surface and roll out thinly into a large rectangle. Using a 4-inch round cookie or biscuit cutter
- cut 8 circles in the dough. Place dough circles in the prepared muffin cups
- pressing dough into the bottom and up the sides of each cup.
- Drop 1 teaspoon mozzarella into each cup. Top with 1 tablespoon of pizza sauce. Add chopped tomatoes and red onions. Add 1 tablespoon of mozzarella to each cup
- and top with pepperoni. Sprinkle each cup with Italian seasoning
- red pepper flakes
- and garlic salt to taste.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cheese is bubbling and melted
- 14 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool in the tin for about 5 minutes. Remove from the tin and serve hot.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 35 mins
Servings: 8