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Pinwheel Pizzas

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Great quick appetizer or snack when you crave a pizza taste.

Author: ourfantasticrecipes

Ingredients

Scale

1 (14 oz.) can pizza dough
8 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
small pepperoni pieces
2 Tbsp. marinara sauce, extra for dipping

Instructions

Roll out the pizza dough a little until the thickness that you like.
Mix the mozzarella cheese and the cream cheese together in a stand mixer until softened.
Add the marinara sauce to the cheese mixture and whip till combined.
Spread the cheese mixture onto the rolled out pizza dough.
Add as many small pepperoni slices as you like.
Roll up, starting at the long end very tightly, then pinch the edges together.
Slice the log into 1 inch slices and place on parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake in 400ºF oven for about 10 minutes or until browned.
Serve on a large enough plate with a side of extra marinara sauce.

Pinwheel pizzas are a great appetizer to have in your recipes. They are great tasting, just like a slice of pepperoni pizza, only smaller and we would put them in the quick appetizer category. They are made with just five ingredients and take just a few minutes to whip up. The ingredients are simple and probably you keep most of these in your fridge. They are one appetizer that gets eaten right away, you should try making these when you have company or just a great snack when watching tv.

Making the Pinroll Pizzas:

There are only 5 ingredients needed to make these pinwheels.

Ingredients for pizza pinwheels, pizza dough, mozzrell cheese, cream cheese, small pepperoni, and marina sauce

Pizza Pinwheels ingredients

The ingredients start with a roll of pizza dough which you open, then, using a rolling pin, roll out just a little more so that it is thin enough for a thin crust. We like the thin crust pizza.

Rolled out pizza dough

Next, put the soften cream cheese and shredded mozzarella cheese in an electric mixer and mix until smooth soften (you can soften the cream cheese in the microwave if you need to).

cream cheese and mozzrella cheese mixed together in a silver bowl

Cheeses mixed together

Now, add about 2 Tablespoons of marinara sauce to the cheese and mix till incorporated.

Cheeses mixed with marina sauce

Spread the cheese mixture onto the pizza dough till covered.

Cheese mixture spread out onto pizza dough

Cheese mixture spread onto the pizza dough

Add as much small pepperoni slices onto the pizza dough.

Add small pepperoni all over the pizza dough

Adding small pepperoni on pizza dough

Starting at the long end of the pizza dough, tightly roll the dough into a large log. At the end, pinch the dough together so that it doesn't come apart.