My kids never get tired of eating pizza, but when I want to switch things up a bit, we love making these Pizza Muffins. They have all of the best parts of a pizza, just in a smaller form! What’s not to love?
PIZZA!!!! That’s the only word I tend to hear these days whenever I ask my husband and the kids what they want for dinner. One of our favorite things to do as a family is making homemade pizzas together and it’s so much fun. One of our kids’ favorite parts is getting to choose the toppings for their side of the pie. We’ve even found that foods they normally won’t eat on their own, become totally appealing to them when tossed on their own portion of the pizza.
A few Sundays ago when we were making some delicious thin crusted creations, Gemma was on the kitchen floor playing with one of the muffin tins and it gave me a genius idea… Pizza Muffins! Why, you may ask? Why not! Pizza is crunchy, cheesy, delicious, totally kid-friendly and when it’s cooked in the shape of a muffin, it just adds a cool twist to the same old slice that you’re used to.
What makes this recipe even more appealing, is you can make as many versions as you want! Add some olives to one, a couple pieces of pepper on another, crumbled sausage on one. The sky’s the limit! And you’ll be guaranteed to make everyone in your family happy.
I know pizza is already pretty fun, but I love making it MORE fun. You’ll notice there are a lot of pizza variations on Weelicious. If we’re not making these Pizza Muffins we’re probably making Grilled Pizza Roll Ups, Quilt Pizzas or Pizza Pinwheels. Each one just as fun to make as the last.
When I told my husband about my inspiration for this recipe, the first thing he said was, “thank goodness Gemma wasn’t playing with a jello mold when you thought this one up.” The funny thing is, now I’m curious what a jello mold pizza would entail! Like I said, you can’t go wrong with pizza, right?
Pizza Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 pound pizza dough
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce
- olive oil
Instructions
- Bring dough to room temperature and preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Roll out the dough to a thin 18 x 12 rectangle and cut into squares about 3 x 3 inches.
- Grease mini muffin cups and place one square in each cup, making sure that the corners of the dough are sticking out.
- Brush edges of dough with olive oil.
- Par-bake dough for 8 minutes and take tins out of oven.
- Pour 1 tsp of sauce in each cup and evenly distribute the cheese between the cups (you can add toppings now as well).
- Bake for an additional 5 minutes.
- Cool and serve.
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i have an assigment to make a pizza muffin but it has to appeal to kids around the age of 14 aswell as look like some kind of muffin and it has to go good with a salad. can any one help?
We use TJ’s pizza dough all the time!
I am going to try this with Trader Joe’s pizza dough! This would be a good way for us to keep our dairy-eating and non-dairy-eating family members safe and happy. 🙂
So delicious! Instead of cooking the dough first, I filled them and baked for about 12 minutes. Came out perfect. Our favorite filling is chicken, red onions, and our favorite BBQ sauce (dinosaur bbq sauce), topped with fresh mozzarella 🙂
So I made these and am not sure if I was to use regular size muffin tins or mini?
My 3×3 squares didn’t top over?
Otherwise came out lookin pretty good – tasted awesome
anyone?
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wow, these look great! we always have pizza night, usually thursdays. this will be a good change and i’m sure my little guy (and big guy) will love it. i agree that it’s very easy to get the little ones to eat more veggies if they’re covered in delicious gooey cheese and sauce. thanks for another winning recipe!
we do something like this in my home. although, we use eggroll wrappers for the crust. i love making homemade baked wontons(dont do alot of frying in our house) and one day i tried making our own pizza rolls with egroll skins and the guys loved it. keep up the good work! we love your recipes!
OMg-soo cute! My Lo does that with mashed pots. Won’t eat them in her plate but loves them right after I mash them with the blender!
We made these for lunch today and they were SO yummy! I thawed out some spinach to sneak in them for my not-so-veggie-friendly toddler to eat. Hilarious story…she was on the counter “helping” me make them and spotted the bowl of spinach, tasted a bite, and then proceeded to shovel handfuls of spinach in her mouth! Here I am trying to find creative ways to sneak her spinach and she’s willing to eat it plain!
I actually don’t know, my concern would be that the phyllo would be too thin and the sauce and cheese would bleed through. I think you would have to put a good amount of layers of phyllo and par-bake them then add the sauce and cheese. Let me know how they turn out!
This sounds delish. Do you think I could make these with mini fillo cups? I bought some the other day thinking I was going to use them for an app for a party but changed my mind about what to make & now am trying to think of fun ways to use them…
ohhhh – I tried to make these a couple of weeks ago without the receipe (from your facebook post) and did not prebake the crust…it didn’t turn out all that well. Now I get it! I will try it tonight!