Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkins are quick and easy pizza bites loaded with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni. These homemade pizza bites are great for your lunch box, dinner or snacks. And, if you make them in cute pumpkin shapes, they will be the perfect party food or appetizers for Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Fall Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkin Recipe
Mini pumpkin pizzas are so delicious, but also look so cute. They are perfect for parties, and simply irresistible!
Pepperoni pizza bites are so easy to make using just 4 simple ingredients: refrigerated pizza crust, marinara sauce, sliced pepperoni, and mini mozzarella balls. However, if you want to dress them up for Halloween party or Thanksgiving dinner you’ll have to put in a little more effort. To transform these mini pizza bites in festive food you’ll have to wrap the twine around the dough ball to create a pumpkin shape.
Halloween-Themed Party Appetizer
Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkins are great snack to share at a Halloween party. If you serve these cute pumpkin-shaped pumpkin pizzas at your Thanksgiving celebration you will impress all your guests for sure.
Although these Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkins are technically an appetizer that’s great for parties and holiday events, they are great dinner for busy weeknights when you have absolutely no time for anything complicated.
Easy Pizza Bites Recipe
For simple and easy weeknight dinner, you don’t have to wrap the twine around the pizza balls to create the pumpkin shape. Just bake them like simple mini pepperoni pizza balls. That way soft, warm mini pizzas stuffed with pepperoni and oodles of cheese are ready in 15 minutes.
Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkins are perfect for Pizza Friday, after-school snacks, or absolutely no reason at all Kids will love them. Pizza of any kind is always a winner, and these are so irresistible.
Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkins
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 8 pumpkins 1x
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkins are quick and easy pizza bites loaded with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni. These homemade pizza bites are great for your lunch box, dinner or snacks. And, if you make them in cute pumpkin shapes, they will be the perfect party food or appetizers for Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Ingredients
- 1 can refrigerated pizza pie crust.
- 2 tablespoons marinara sauce + more for serving
- 16 slices of pepperoni
- 8 mini mozzarella balls (or 8 cubes of mozzarella)
- 1 egg -slightly bitten with 2 teaspoon water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F, line a baking sheet with parchment paper ad set aside.
- Roll out pizza dough and using a 3 ½ or 4-inches cutter cut out 8 circles of dough.
- Place a small dollop of marinara sauce in the center of each circle, add 2 pepperoni slices and a cube or a ball of mozzarella.
- Bring the edges up and over, pressing them together and being sure to leave no gaps for the filling to leak out. Lay the pizza bombs on the prepared baking sheet.
- Wrap each dough ball in along piece of kitchen twine, around the ball to divide it into eight sections. The rolls are baked with the string attached and the dough rises around the string forming little pumpkin shapes.
- Brush each ball with egg wash and bake 15-20 minutes, or until it rises and get nice golden- brown color.
- Allow rolls to cool for a few minutes, then remove the twine. Serve warm with marinara sauce alongside.
1 comment
Love it! Such a cute idea 🙂 Halloween is always a busy day here so quick and simple is the key at our house. Will have to try these this year, I can make them pretty quickly!