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Skip the pizza delivery! Enjoy these easy, cheesy Pepperoni Pizza Bites hot and fresh from the oven. You’ll want to double the batch!
Most of the recipes on this site are here because I felt compelled to write a recipe and post it.
But once in a while, I get a fantastic reader suggestion. So when I received an email with the Subject: “This looks like it would be fun to make,” followed by a link to Reddit, I got to work immediately.
During my research and development, I tried making a cheese-only version. It actually wasn’t very good and my kids wouldn’t eat it. But with pepperoni? No leftovers. Do with this information what you will.
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Recipe ingredients
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Ingredient notes
- Refrigerated biscuits: These are the biscuits in the exploding cans you find in the refrigerator section of the grocery store. Pillsbury is a common brand. Cut the biscuits in half lengthwise so instead of 8 biscuit circles, you now have 16 biscuit circles.
Step-by-step instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Coat a 9-inch pie plate with nonstick spray. In a small bowl, whisk together melted butter and garlic powder. Form each biscuit half into a circle and flatten into a disk. Top with one piece of pepperoni and 1/2-ounce piece of mozzarella cheese.
- Fold the sides of the biscuit up and over the pepperoni and cheese until it is completely covered. Shape into a ball.
- Place in the prepared pan. Repeat with remaining biscuit halves, 15 pepperoni pieces, and mozzarella cheese pieces.
- When all the pizza bites have been formed and placed in the baking dish, arrange the remaining pepperoni (about 24 pieces) between the biscuits. Brush with garlic butter.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the biscuits are starting to brown. Remove from oven and top with shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Turn off oven, then return bites to oven until cheese is melted, 1 to 2 minutes longer. Garnish with parsley if desired and serve with Marinara sauce or Ranch dressing.
Recipe tips and variations
- Yield: This Pepperoni Pizza Bites recipe makes 16 bites, enough for 4 servings, 4 bites each.
- Storage: Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
- More pizza recipes: Craving more pizza? Try my Artichoke a la Mode Flatbread Pizza (the “a la mode” part is cream cheese on the pizza, a Milwaukee specialty). Barbecue Chicken Skillet Pizza uses a store-bought crust and is inspired by the California Pizza Kitchen cult favorite of the same name. Veggie Pizza and Taco Pizza are delicious iterations on the theme, too.
Recipe FAQs
You are certainly welcome to change any recipe as you see fit. However, I tried making a cheese-only version. It actually wasn’t very good and my kids wouldn’t eat it. But with pepperoni? No leftovers.
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Pepperoni Pizza Bites
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter melted
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 can refrigerated biscuits halved lengthwise (see note 1)
- 1 (8 ounce) block mozzarella cheese cut into sixteen (½ ounce) pieces
- 40 pieces pepperoni from 6 ounce package
- ½ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- fresh parsley for garnish, optional
- Marinara sauce for dipping, optional
- Ranch dressing for dipping, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Coat a 9-inch pie plate with nonstick spray. In a small bowl, whisk together melted butter and garlic powder.
- Form each biscuit half into a circle and flatten into a disk. Top with one piece of pepperoni and 1/2-ounce piece of mozzarella cheese.
- Fold the sides of the biscuit up and over the pepperoni and cheese until it is completely covered. Shape into a ball and place in the prepared pan. Repeat with remaining biscuit halves, 15 pepperoni pieces, and mozzarella cheese pieces.
- When all the pizza bites have been formed and placed in the baking dish, arrange the remaining pepperoni (about 24 pieces) between the biscuits. Brush with garlic butter.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, until the biscuits are starting to brown. Remove from oven and top with shredded mozzarella cheese. Turn off oven, then return bites to oven until cheese is melted, 1 to 2 minutes longer. Garnish with parsley if desired and serve with Marinara sauce or Ranch dressing.
Notes
- Refrigerated biscuits: These are the biscuits in the exploding cans you find in the refrigerator section of the grocery store. Pillsbury is a common brand. Cut the biscuits in half lengthwise so instead of 8 biscuit circles, you now have 16 biscuit circles (a serrated bread knife works well).
- Yield: This Pepperoni Pizza Bites recipe makes 16 bites, enough for 4 servings, 4 bites each.
- Storage: Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
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This was awesome! I made the pizza dough in my bread machine and it rose beautifully. So tasty and easy! My husband said definitely a repeat recipe.
Do you think the mozzeralla cheese sticks will work as well?
100% yes to that! Definitely. I use those in my pizza sticks too (basically mozz cheese sticks wrapped in wontons with pepperoni and deep-fried). All good things. Thank you Terry!
Thank you! Just put them in the oven :)
any way this works with a glass dish for the oven???
Absolutely, I don’t see why not! I haven’t tried it, but it’s just like anything else – brownies, cake mixes, whatever. You should have no issue using a glass dish. With cakes mixes, etc. the oven temperature is the same for metal and glass pans, it’s just a lower temp if you use dark or nonstick. So you should be fine! Maybe check it 5 minutes early just in case?
Hi Meggan!
Sorry for the duplicate comment, my browser froze.
Thanks, I’ll try that :-)
Oh I know what you’re talking about! Boyfriend always tells me to stop showing him recipe links+photos and rather make them, he’ll be more enthusiastic when he can taste it, when for me it is enough to look at an apetizing photo :-)
This is such a genius recipe, love how uncomplicated and quick it is, and also how stunning and delicious it looks!
But you can’t find “can of refrigerator biscuits” where I live, any suggestion what I could use instead?
This is such a genius idea! Love how uncomplicated and easy it is, yet looks stunning and delicious!
Any suggestion for the can of refrigerator biscuits since you can’t find those where I live. What could I use instead?
Hi Stella! Thanks for your comments. You could use any kind of store-bought or homemade pizza dough (or frozen bread dough). They are all delicious! Thanks again.