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Pizza Bites

 

Photo credit ~ Hormel

Here’s another treat when you get together with your friends to watch the Super Bowl game.  Who doesn’t like pizza?  Your crowd will love this as they are so tasty and easy to eat.  Plus, the house smells heavenly while they are baking!

They are put together with pepperoni, mozzarella and herbs, surrounded by tender dough.  I imagine about any combination of ingredients would work, what ever you like best on your pizza.  Set them in the oven and in 20 minutes you will be eating them.  Your stomach will be growling for more!

Pizza Bites

Ingredients:

2 (10 ounce) cans Pillsbury Refrigerated Pizza Crust

1 (8 ounce) package mozzarella cheese, cut into 48 cubes

2 (3.5 ounce) packages sliced pepperoni

1 tablespoon olive oil

1 ½ teaspoons dried Italian seasoning

2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

1 (14 ounce) jar pizza sauce, heated

Method:

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Spray two 9” pie pans or one 13”x9” pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Remove dough from both cans. Unroll dough.

Starting at center, press out each dough rectangle with hands to form a 12”x8” rectangle. 

Cut each rectangle into 24 squares.

Top each square with two pepperoni slices and one cheese cube.

Wrap dough around filling to completely seal.

Place seam side down with sides touching in pans.

In small bowl, combine oil and Italian seasoning, mix well.

Brush over filled dough in pans.

Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

Bake at 400 degrees for 16-22 minutes or until golden brown.

Serve warm with warm pizza sauce.

Makes 48 appetizers.

It’s finger food at its best!

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 2, 2011 at 7:10 AM and is filed under Appetizers, Mozzarella, Parmesan, Pepperoni, Pizza, Super Bowl. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response.