I love these pepperoni pizza cups and cheese appetizers. These by far will be the easiest stuffed pizza dough you will ever find so easy. Delicious soft pillows of dough stuffed with cheese and meat. Whether you make them for game day events, holiday appetizers, picnics, or an anytime snack, these will be that perfect quick and easy appetizer. Serve with freshly heated marinara dipping sauce. These are always asked for this recipe. The easiest recipes are the best aren't they? Check out my secret baking pan that make them perfect and no fuss at all!
Delicious Dipped in Sauce
I love a good tomato sauce homemade which we call marinara.
You can make the sauce fresh or buy store bought.
The sauce is a delicious dip and perfect way to serve these pizza style pepperoni cup appetizers.
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Homemade or Store Bought
If you prefer other sauces, try some of my other homemade dipping sauce recipes, my son loves to dip his in blue cheese dip or even ranch.
You can use any of my other dipping sauce recipes here.
I use my homemade pizza dough recipe, but you can buy store bought for this recipe.
Ease of the Recipe
I love how easy these are to make and pop in the oven.
They are done in no time, but beware of biting into them as soon as they come out, we have all burned the roof of our mouth because we just can't wait for them to cool!
The melted provolone and mozzarella cheese go great with pepperoni and are the perfect combination of flavors.
The Secret Baking Pan
I don't know what took me so long to figure out how awesome these are to bake in a cupcake tin!
My secret tip to all, they stay perfect in shape and bake evenly, I love using my cupcake pan!
The appetizers won't stick if you spray them first with cooking oil spray.
Change them up
If you don't like pepperoni, stuff your pizza dough whatever you like.
Try and make an all veggie one.
I have used raw spinach, tomatoes, chopped mushrooms blotted dry and diced eggplant, just make sure you get the water out of any of the vegetables you use first.
You can use chopped medley of meats too like cooked sausage, ham, bacon, steak, shredded chicken or pork.
Doesn't matter what kind of meats you use, everything taste better with cheese right?
These cheese and pepperoni appetizers are our favorite combination.
Get creative and make your favorite and don't forget the marinara for dipping them into.
We think these pepperoni pizza cups and cheese appetizers with marinara are the best for any time of the day and just because without of reason.
pepperoni, rolls, pizza, dough, cupcake, stuffed, meat, mozzarella, marinara
pizza, appetizers
Italian, American
Yield: 12
Pepperoni Pizza Cups
prep time: 15 mins
cook time: 25 mins
total time: 40 mins
cook time: 25 mins
total time: 40 mins
These are a stuffed pizza dough with pepperoni and mozzarella cheese.
ingredients:
1 pound of Italian Pizza dough or 2 or more packages of refrigerator biscuits (10 in tube) if you want to make it quick or use store bought pizza dough!
granulated garlic
grated cheese Parmesan or Asiago
pepperoni slices as many as it takes for the amount of dough
provolone cheese slices cut into small strips
thin slices of mozzarella cheese cut into strips
thin slices of mozzarella cheese cut into strips
Cupcake tins
Marinara sauce homemade or store bought for dipping
instructions:
Take dough out of rolls and on a floured board or piece of wax paper, flatten with your hand. Take a few pieces of pepperoni and a piece of each cheese and place it into the middle of the dough. Roll it up and place it seam down into a oil sprayed cupcake tin.
Do this with all of them until desired amount is completed and placed into tins.
Sprinkle the tops with granulated garlic and grated Parmesan cheese.
Bake on a preheated oven at 400 degrees until browned around 14 minutes. Serve with marinara sauce.
Other suggestions to stuff them with your favorite cheese:
Cooked drained Italian sausage
Raw spinach leaves
Chopped eggplant, shredded zucchini or chopped broccoli
Sliced mushrooms
Sliced olives
Assorted cheeses that melt well cheddar, mozzarella, Mexican cheese blends, fontina, Gouda, Havarti, Swiss
Tuna and cheddar
Hot dogs sliced
Chopped cooked steak
Cooked shredded chicken
calories
185
185
fat (grams)
8
8
sat. fat (grams)
2
2
carbs (grams)
19
19
net carbs
16
16
protein (grams)
9
9
sugar (grams)
3
3
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