Pizza Muffins with Biscuits

Pizza muffins made with biscuits served with side of marinara sauce.

Pizza Muffins with Biscuits

These pizza muffins with biscuits are the ultimate kid-friendly finger food! Just cut up your biscuit dough, toss with butter, sauce, and seasonings, fill your muffin tin, and bake. Ready in 20 minutes and picky eater approved!

Course Appetizer, Dinner, Lunch, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine Americanized Italian

Prep Time 6

Cook Time 14

Total Time 20

Servings pizza muffins

Calories 192.7kcal

Author Marcie Groller

Equipment

1 muffin tin

Ingredients

1 16 oz Tube of jumbo biscuits
3 Tbsp butter melted
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp parsley flakes
1/4 tsp dried basil
1/4 tsp dried oregano
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese divided
1/4 cup pizza sauce and more for dipping

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 and spray a 12-cup muffin pan with cooking spray.
Break apart tube of biscuits and divide each biscuit into six small pieces, placing pieces into a medium bowl.
Melt the butter and mix it with the seasoning, then drizzle evenly over the biscuit pieces. Add the pizza sauce and 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, then stir until everything is well coated.
Divide seasoned biscuit and cheese mixture evenly into 12 muffin tins. Sprinkle on remaining 1/2 cup of mozzarella and bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.
Let the muffins cool for a few minutes, then gently run a knife around the edges to loosen and remove them. Serve with warm marinara sauce on the side for dipping.

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Notes

Cut biscuits into six even pieces — Use kitchen shears to cut each biscuit in half and then into thirds. This gives you the perfect size for a standard muffin tin.
Grease the pan generously — Don't skip this step! A well-greased muffin tin is the difference between pizza muffins that pop right out and ones that stick and fall apart.
Simplify the seasonings — Don't have all five spices on hand? No problem! Swap the garlic powder, parsley flakes, dried basil, dried oregano, and dried thyme for a pre-mixed Italian seasoning blend and a pinch of garlic powder. You'll get very similar flavor with half the measuring!
Don't overfill — Fill each muffin cup about ¾ of the way full. Overfilling causes the toppings to spill over the sides and makes them harder to remove cleanly.
Go easy on the sauce — Just ¼ cup of pizza sauce is all you need for the whole batch. It sounds like a little but trust us — too much sauce makes the bottoms soggy, and you'll want plenty left over for dipping anyway!
Loosen before removing — Run a knife gently around the edges of each pizza muffin before lifting them out of the tin.
Serve immediately — Pizza muffins are best straight out of the oven with a side of warmed pizza or marinara sauce for dipping.

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