These mini pizzas are crescent roll dough topped with sauce, cheese and toppings, then baked to golden brown perfection. A bite sized version of pizza that makes for a fun and unique appetizer.
Everyone loves the flavor of pizza, whether it’s pizza pasta, pizza muffins, pizza dip or these cute and easy miniature pepperoni pizzas. Both kids and adults go crazy over these little snacks!
Whenever I ask my kids what they want for dinner, someone always responds by requesting pizza. These mini pizzas are a fun twist on the classic dish, and are great for snack time, parties or just to satisfy a pizza craving. Serve your pizzas along with other Italian food recipes such as panzanella salad, pasta puttanesca or Italian meatballs.
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Mini Pizzas Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need sheets of crescent roll dough, pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, mini pepperoni slices and parsley.
How Do You Make Mini Pizzas?
Lay the both sheets of the crescent roll dough out on a flat surface like a baking sheet, then cut circles out of the dough to make pizza crusts. Press each crust into the well of a muffin tin, then add pizza sauce, cheese and mini pepperoni on top. Bake until the pizzas are golden brown and the cheese is melted. Add a sprinkle of parsley on top, then serve and enjoy.
Tips For The Perfect Pizzas
- Use a cookie cutter or the rim of a drinking glass to cut your pizza crust circles out of the crescent dough.
- Be sure to purchase a crescent dough sheet, not the actual rolls. The dough for rolls comes pre-cut into triangles and it will be hard to cut out circles.
- I recommend shredding your own cheese for this recipe. The pre-shredded cheese in bags at the grocery store often contains anti caking agents and doesn’t melt smoothly.
- These mini pizzas are best served immediately. If you have leftover pizzas, you can store them in the fridge, then put them in the oven or toaster oven to crisp them back up.
Quick Tip
Mini pizzas will stay fresh in the freezer for up to 2 months. Heat the pizzas from frozen in the oven at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes, or until heated through.
Recipe FAQs
Mini pizzas take about 8-10 minutes to cook at 400 degrees F. The pizzas are done when the crust turns golden brown and crisp, and the cheese is nicely melted.
A typical personal pizza ranges from 6-12 inches in diameter. A mini pizza is smaller than this range, typically about 3-4 inches in diameter.
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Flavor Variations
This recipe serves as a template for basic mini pizzas, but it is so easy to customize the ingredients to your taste.
- Dough: No crescent dough on hand? Feel free to use biscuit dough or pizza dough instead. You can also use flour tortillas for a thinner crust.
- Sauce: Swap out the pizza sauce for marinara sauce, pesto or Alfredo sauce.
- Cheese: Try adding other types of cheese such as provolone, fontina or parmesan.
- Toppings: Get creative with your pizza toppings! Some great options include diced tomato, chicken, spinach, onions, fresh herbs such as fresh basil, pineapple, bacon, cooked sausage, artichokes, mushrooms, olives, bell peppers or ham.
You can never go wrong with pizza, especially when it comes in a small, bite sized package. Make these mini pizzas today and watch the rave reviews come in!
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Mini Pizzas
Ingredients
- 2 tubes crescent sheet dough
- 1/3 cup pizza sauce homemade or store bought
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- 1/3 cup mini pepperoni
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley chopped
- cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Coat the cups of a muffin pan with cooking spray.
- Unroll the crescent roll sheets and cut out 12 3-inch circles.
- Press one circle of dough into each of the muffin pan wells.
- Spoon the sauce evenly among the muffin cups and top with the shredded mozzarella cheese and pepperoni.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until dough is golden brown and cheese is melted.
- Sprinkle with parsley and serve.
Notes
- Use a cookie cutter or the rim of a drinking glass to cut your pizza crust circles out of the crescent dough.
- Be sure to purchase a crescent dough sheet, not the actual rolls. The dough for rolls comes pre-cut into triangles and it will be hard to cut out circles.
- I recommend shredding your own cheese for this recipe. The pre-shredded cheese in bags at the grocery store often contains anti caking agents and doesn’t melt smoothly.
Hi, these are really yummy. Do I need to cook mini pepperoni before I put on the pizzas to cook?
No you don’t need to cook the pepperoni separately!
What size cookie cutter do you use?
3 inch!
Hi there,
These look so delicious. Do you think they stay fresh if I bake these for outdoor birthday and put them in individual bags for couple hours ?
They should not sit out for more than 2 hours at room temperature, or a maximum of one hour if it’s a warmer day.
Why put them in a muffin tin? Could you just place on a baking sheet?
That’s fine but they just don’t hold their shape as well!
These were so perfect for a rainy day activity! Yummy too!
I let the granddaughters do their own toppings and it was really a fun activity! They also tasted yummy!
Really enjoyed at family reunion. Kids especially loved the familiarity and grab and go aspect. Adults liked as appetizers, before the big sit down meal.
Put on a movie for the kids and served these little pizzas and everyone was so happy! They were yummy
Thanks for the recipe. I have one question, do two tubes of the crescent roils make only 12 mini pizzas?
Yes, you may end up with scraps when you cut it into rounds!
These mini pizza are full of flavor and are perfect any night of the week.
The kids have so much fun dressing up these mini pizzas and making them their own! Perfect for Friday night pizza night in our house!
These were the perfect afternoon snack for my kiddos! Loved how easy they were to make and with minimal ingredients! Definitely a new favorite recipe!
We have the kids make these and it’s so fun! Definitely a family favorite! Easy too.
This is wonderful!! My kids would totally love to help me make these, so they can add the toppings they like. This is a great change from regular pizza!
This would be great to try with the kids! So delish!
Deliciousness! Now I know what I will make for our weekly movie night!
My kids would LOVE these!! They look SO YUMMY!!
This will be a fun lunch while we are all home. They can eat customize their own pizza!
This is such a fun recipe idea! My kids would love these. 🙂
These look like so much fun and very tasty!