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Easy Pizza Cupcakes Recipe
Make Easy Pizza Cupcakes in 20 minutes with mozzarella, pizza sauce, and your favorite toppings. Perfect for parties and kid-friendly meals.
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
40 mins
Servings: 12 cupcakes
Course:
Lunch , Dinner
Cuisine:
American
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups (7 ½ oz/213 g) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons dried Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 ½ cups (12 fl oz/360 ml) whole milk
- ½ cup (4 oz/120 g) Pizza Sauce
- 2 cups (8 oz/225 g) shredded mozzarella cheese
- ¼ cup (2 oz/57 g) mini pepperonis
Notes
- Instead of tomato sauce, you can use pesto, olive tapenade or any other sauce you normally like on your pizza.
- If you like pizza with a little kick of heat, add about a ½ teaspoon of crushed red pepper flakes to either the sauce or the cupcake batter.
- Pay careful attention to the layering order for the cupcake filling. The cheese layered around the sauce helps keep it suspended in the center of the cupcake.
- You can replace some of the mozzarella with another cheese like goat or feta.
- Make dessert pizza cupcakes: First, use cupcake liners instead of greasing the tin. Then, for the batter, leave out the Italian seasoning and reduce the salt to 1/2 teaspoon. Add your first layer of batter to the cups. For the filling, cut a large marshmallow in half. Layer on one marshmallow half, 2 teaspoons of Nutella, two slices of banana and the remaining marshmallow half. Top with the remaining batter and bake until set.