Pizza Cruffins
Try these delicious Pizza Cruffins, a savory combination of crescent roll dough, mozzarella, pepperonis, and garlic butter, baked to perfection!
Servings: 12 cruffins
Calories: 533kcal
Ingredients
Dough
- 3 tubes (8 ounces each) refrigerated crescent roll sheets
Filling
- ½ cup (1 stick / 113 g) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 3 cups (339 g) mozzarella cheese, shredded, divided
- 1 cup (113 g) pepperoni minis, divided
Topping
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon fresh parsley, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- marinara sauce, warmed, for dipping
Instructions
Dough
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly spray a standard 12-cup muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray. Set aside.
- Working on a lightly floured work surface, roll out each tube of dough to a 12×16-inch rectangle. (We used crescent roll sheets; if you use perforated crescent roll dough, be sure to pinch the seams to seal.)
Filling
- In a medium bowl combine butter, garlic, and Italian seasoning.
- Spread about ⅓ of the butter mixture over the top of one sheet of dough.
- Sprinkle 1 cup of mozzarella and ⅓ of the mini pepperonis evenly over the butter mixture.
- Starting on the long end of the dough sheet, tightly roll it up into a log.
- Cut the log in half, creating two shorter logs.
- Cut each of those shorter logs in half lengthwise, giving you four sections of dough.
- Repeat with the remaining two sheets of dough. You will have a total of 12 sections of dough.
- Working one section of dough at a time with the layered side facing out, roll it tightly into a cinnamon roll shape, tucking in the end piece of dough.
- Place into the prepared muffin tin. Repeat with the remaining 11 sections.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown. While the cruffins are baking, prepare the garlic butter.
Garlic Butter
- To a small saucepan over medium heat, add butter and garlic. Cook for one minute, or until the butter is melted.
- Add parsley and salt. Stir to combine.
- Brush the garlic butter topping over the warm rolls.
- Serve with warm marinara sauce for dipping.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1pizza cruffin | Calories: 533kcal