Pizza Cupcakes

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Servings: 8
Yield: 8 servings

Description

These pizza cupcakes are similar to mini pizzas but in cupcake form. They're easy to customize for a portable snack to bring to a game-day gathering.

Ingredients

cooking spray
8 medium cherry tomatoes
1 (11 ounce) can refrigerated pizza crust
8 teaspoons shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup pizza sauce (such as Classico®)
8 teaspoons finely chopped red onion
1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
8 slices pepperoni, quartered
Italian seasoning to taste
red pepper flakes to taste
garlic salt to taste

Directions

1 Gather ingredients. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 8 cups of a muffin tin with cooking spray.
2 Finely chop cherry tomatoes and drain any liquid; set aside.
3 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.
4 Place dough circles in the prepared muffin cups, pressing dough into the bottom and up the sides of each cup.
5 Drop 1 teaspoon mozzarella into each cup. Top with 1 tablespoon pizza sauce. then add tomatoes and red onions.
6 Add 1 tablespoon mozzarella to each cup and top with pepperoni. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning, red pepper flakes, and garlic salt.
7 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.
8 Remove pizzas from the tin and serve hot.