These pizza cupcakes are a great portable savory snack and a tasty addition to a game-day buffet. They're sort of like a mini pizza, except shaped like a cupcake. Feel free to customize to your family's tastes with additions like ham, sausage, bell peppers, salami, mushrooms, olives, jalapeños, etc. I recommend not omitting the tomato — it really adds something special.
Ingredients
- cooking spray:
- medium cherry tomatoes: 8 piece
- refrigerated pizza crust: 1 can (11 ounce can)
- mozzarella cheese: 8 tsp (shredded)
- pizza sauce (such as Classico): 8 Tbsp
- red onion: 8 tsp (finely chopped)
- mozzarella cheese: 8 Tbsp (shredded)
- slices pepperoni, quartered: 8 piece
- italian seasoning: 0.25 tsp (to taste)
- red pepper flakes: 0.25 tsp (to taste)
- garlic salt: 0.25 tsp (to taste)
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Stages of cooking
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Gather ingredients. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 8 cups of a muffin tin with cooking spray.
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Finely chop cherry tomatoes and drain any liquid; set aside. ALLRECIPES / VICTORIA JEMPTY
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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 out 8 circles in dough. ALLRECIPES / VICTORIA JEMPTY
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Place dough circles in the prepared muffin cups, pressing dough into the bottom and up the sides of each cup. ALLRECIPES / VICTORIA JEMPTY
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Drop 1 teaspoon mozzarella into each cup. Top with 1 tablespoon pizza sauce. then add tomatoes and red onions. ALLRECIPES / VICTORIA JEMPTY
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Add 1 tablespoon mozzarella to each cup and top with pepperoni. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning, red pepper flakes, and garlic salt. ALLRECIPES / VICTORIA JEMPTY
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Bake in the preheated oven until cheese is bubbling and melted, 14 to 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool in the tins, about 5 minutes. ALLRECIPES / VICTORIA JEMPTY
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Remove pizzas from the tin and serve hot. ALLRECIPES / VICTORIA JEMPTY
