About this recipe
Put a fall twist on pizza!
This recipe is the perfect snack to enjoy right before the kids head out trick-or-treating, or for a cozy night at home.
This mini pumpkins are made from pie or pizza dough and are stuffed with pizza sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni and finished with a garlic butter. A pretzel stick serves as a stem, and a basil leaf gives it a garden-fresh look.
Jessica Holmes recommends not adding too much pizza sauce, so it doesn’t ooze out of the crust. She creates an orange-hued butter with turmeric and paprika, but this step is completely optional.
The kids will get a kick out of this one. It’s almost too cute to eat!
Ingredients
Pumpkin-Stuffed Pizza Bites
Directions
Pumpkin Stuffed Pizza Bites
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Roll out the dough. Using a bowl or circular cookie cutter, cut circles in the dough.
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Add pizza sauce, cheese and pepperoni to your dough circle, then fold up all the edges of the dough and roll it into a sealed ball.
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Avoid overfilling with sauce to prevent leakage. -
Coat twine with oil to prevent it from sticking to your pumpkins after baking. Take twine and wrap it down the middle, then cross over, create a knot and keep wrapping to create your pumpkin ridges.
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You can also use several pieces of twine to create the ridges.
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Place your pizza-stuffed pumpkins on a parchment lined cookie sheet.
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Add butter and garlic into a sauce pan and heat up. Add turmeric and paprika to create an orange color.
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This step is optional but adds festive color.
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Using a pastry brush, brush butter on your pumpkin stuffed pizza.
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Place pizzas in oven at 375 degrees for 20-30 mins.
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Let cool. Remove twine. Add pretzel for stem and basil leave. Serve on platter.
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