These Party-Friendly Mini Pizzas are so cute and super easy to throw together – all you need is pizza dough and your favourite toppings.
Ingredients and substitutions
- Store-bought pizza dough – homemade pizza dough, pitas or English muffins would also make great bases.
- Tomato sauce – store-bought or homemade tomato sauce are both great options.
- Pesto – this is a great alternative to tomato sauce for making a variety of different mini pizzas.
- Mozzarella – provolone, gouda, parmesan or any other cheese including lactose-free options can work for this recipe.
- Your favourite toppings – Use your preferred toppings, like veggies, meats, herbs and cheeses, to customize your mini pizzas.
How to make mini pizzas
- Roll and cut the dough.
- Pre-cook the dough for 7-8 minutes.
- Assemble your toppings.
- Add on your sauce and toppings.
- Put in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
Alternate crust options
Using bread or English muffins are great options if you don’t have any pizza dough. If you’re using English muffins, open up your English muffin so that you have two halves face-up. For bread like pitas or tortillas, you can use a cookie cutter or cup to make the pizzas into mini-sized circles.
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Once you’ve got your dough bases cut, you can cover them with your sauce and toppings of choice and bake them! They’re super easy and so delicious.
Frequently Asked Questions
To make this recipe easy, I suggest using store-bought dough or even English muffins or pitas. That being said, there are tons of great homemade pizza dough recipes out there you can try.
You’ll need to pre-cook the dough for 7-8 minutes and then stick the mini pizzas with their toppings in the oven for 10-12 minutes until the pizza has melted. You’ll have a tasty treat in less than a half-hour!
To make these mini pizzas, roll out your dough on a floured surface and sprinkle some flour on top, too. To cut the dough into their mini, circular shapes, you can use anything from a glass or stainless steel cup or a round cookie cutter. Once you’ve cut as many circles as you can, roughly 8 or 9 circles, collect the remaining dough back into a ball. To get it sticky again, add a touch of water, just so that it’s wet enough to stick together again. Then, simply repeat the steps of rolling it out with some flour and cutting it again.
Storing and reheating
You can refrigerate these mini pizzas for 3 to 5 days in an airtight container. Once you’re ready to eat them, you can microwave them for about a minute depending on the intensity of your microwave. You can also heat them up in the oven for a few minutes for a crispier crust!
Freezing mini pizzas
You can store your mini pizzas in the freezer for 1 to 2 months, making this recipe great for meal prep. Make sure to freeze them in an airtight freezer-safe container either baked or unbaked. If you’re freezing them baked, wait until they’ve cooled before packing them away and sticking them in the freezer. From there, all you have to do is defrost them and then pop them in the microwave or oven.
To freeze them unbaked, add the sauce and toppings to the dough then freeze them in a single layer. You want to make sure they’re not stacked on top of each other or they’ll stick together while freezing. When you’re ready to make your pizzas, pull them out of the freezer and let them defrost in the fridge overnight before baking as instructed. You may want to add a few minutes onto the cooking time.
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Meal prep tools for this recipe
- Grab some glass meal prep bowls to store leftovers.
- Freeze these mini pizzas in glass microwave-safe bowls up to 3 months.
Party-Friendly Mini Pizzas
Ingredients
- 1 bag store-bought pizza dough
- Tomato sauce of your choice
Homemade pesto
- 1/2 cup chopped basil leaves
- 1/4 cup chopped kale
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 tbsp water if you're using a blender/Magic Bullet
- 1 ball of mozzarella
Your favourite toppings such as:
- Mushrooms
- Pepperoni
- Green pepper
- Cherry tomatoes
- Bocconcini cheese
- Fresh basil
- Red onion
- Red pepper
- Arugula
- Prosciutto
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 485 degrees and put your pizza stone into the oven to heat up as the oven heats up (this is an important step as the stone can shatter if it's placed into the oven cold!)
- On a floured surface, roll out your pizza dough so that it is about 1/2 an inch thin. You want it to be pretty thin because it will puff up in the oven!
- Use a stainless steel cup, glass cup or circular cookie cutter to create the same size circles of dough. You should be able to cut about 8 or 9 before you have to roll the dough up again to cut more.
- To get the dough to stick together again, run it under water just to get it wet enough so that it's sticky again, and roll it back out with some flour. Repeat with the cookie cutter, and you should end up with between 12-14 pieces of dough total.
- Take the pizza stone out of the oven, and place each little circle of dough onto the pizza stone. They will start to cook right away so place the whole stone into the oven right away and let the dough cook for 7-8 min.
- Meanwhile, make sure all your toppings are ready and cheese is grated.
- Take the dough out of the oven (making sure it's slightly crisped on top and bottom). Top dough with sauce, olive oil, pesto or whatever base you would like. Add cheese and toppings and put back in the oven for another 10-12 minutes, watching closely. Once the cheese is melted to your heart's desire, remove from the oven.
- Enjoy right away when they're hot 😉
Vedeena Haulkhory says
Hi Taylor, I want to make them ahead of time and freeze them. Can I half cook them and freeze or fo they have to be completely cooked, cooled and frozen and reheated on the day. Thanks
Taylor Stinson says
Hey Vedeena! I imagine you can freeze them after they have been cooked and then reheated in the oven on the day of. I haven’t tried half cooking them and then freezing but I think that could also work!
Marilyn says
Half baked then remove them and refreeze till actually ready to serve. I started some like at 9 pm then I let her tell people. Social media how it’s all working. I’ll wait till I’m recovered till this latest surgery and see.
Brittany Nikole says
Thank you so so much for sharing this! My husband and I use to make mini pizzas, but I forgot all about that option until now:) Will definitely start making them again with your improvements!
Taylor Stinson says
Hahaha awww thanks Brittany!! I guess you could say this is the grown up version of mini pizzas 😉 Thanks for stopping by!
Sadia says
Can these be made ahead of time and reheated later?a
Thanks
Taylor Stinson says
Hey Sadia! Yes they definitely can 🙂