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Hi Bold Bakers!
As you have seen on Bigger Bolder Baking before, pizza comes in all different shapes and sizes around here. This recipe might actually blow your mind because these are Pizza Cupcakes! Yes, you read that right. It’s a pizza masquerading as a cupcake but it’s still a pizza.
It has all the components that you love about pizza: sauce, mozzarella, herbs and pepperoni. All of these ingredients are held together by a savory cupcake. It’s a very basic dough that is soft and almost spongy, which is perfect to soak up tomato sauce. Imagine what a biscuit would be like with all of those toppings and that’s pretty much what you are getting.
If pepperoni isn’t your jam then feel free to add in your favorite pizza toppings like olives, mushrooms, or pesto. Think of these cupcakes as a blank canvas on which you have creative license to go nuts!
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Pizza Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (7 1/2 oz/225g) Plain/AP flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups (12oz/360ml) milk
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons dried Italian seasoning
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 cup (4oz/120g) store-bought pizza sauce or my homemade pizza sauce
- 1 cup (8oz/240g) shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup (2oz/60g) mini pepperoni or cooked sausage
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F (190oC) and liberally grease a muffin time with olive oil.
- In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, herbs and salt
- Next whisk in the milk and eggs until combined
- Add about 2 tablespoons of batter to each cupcake then add a layer of cheese followed by sauce, then cheese again. This will insure the sauce staying in the center the cupcake.
- Lastly top with a few mini pepperonis. Repeat the process until you've filled all 12 cupcakes
- Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the remaining batter on the top of each pizza cupcake
- Top each pizza cupcake with as much additional cheese and pepperoni as you'd like
- Bake until lightly browned and puffed, about 20-25 minutes. Enjoy immediately!
Do you love pizza as much as I do? If so you might also like my Pizza Pop Tarts, my Pizza Scones or of course just a regular but amazing Pizza Dough recipe.
Absolutely amazing these were soo yum but would u know the calories in each ?
Hi Gemma,
I made these today and felt that there was too much salt. I try to avoid salt and used local regular salt(my city sits on a salt mine). Since the recipe only needs 2 tsps can I leave it out. I did it in the 12 cup pan that i have at home but next time I’m going to use the 6 cup so I can add more toppings. I submitted pictures just hoping they get approved. I also posted to IG.
Definitely will make again!
Hi Gemma,
I’m wondering if I can leave out the salt. I felt they were a little too salty. I used regular coarse salt. I will try again probably with no salt and use my bigger pan so i can add more toppings.
Hi Gemma, I just made this recipe today and it is super delicious! My family and I absolutely love it! I couldn’t find those baby pepperonis, so I used the regular-sized ones and cut them into quarters. It worked great! My only note is that here in your recipe it says to bake 20-25 minutes and in your video, you say 25-30 minutes. Not a big deal. 27 minutes was perfect for my oven. Delicious and so easy! Thank you!
Made this and it was a hit with my picky eater autistic little one, can’t be more grateful. Can you freeze these for a quick lunchbox filler?
Gemma, how would I make a margherita version of this?
Hi. Gemma, can I use oregano powder instead of dried oregano? Thank you.
Hi Gemma,
Is there anything that we can substitute for Italian seasoning ? Also love your puppy. It is soooo cute. Love your recipes and thank you for sharing them with us.
Can these be frozen after they are baked…thawed and reheated…or can this recipe be cut down for one or two people?