Pizza Cupcakes
Jessica Gray
Fun, single-serve pizza bites, perfect for lunchboxes, snacks, or parties. Packed with classic pizza flavours—gooey cheese, zesty tomato sauce, all in a fluffy, bite-sized cupcake.
Ingredients
Dough
- 165 ml warm water
- 2 tsp instant yeast
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 250 g flour
- 1 tsp Gateway Salt
Sauce
- 1 cup tomato passata or purée
- 1 tbsp Italian Stallion
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp Gateway Salt
Filling
- 1 cup grated mozzarella or any cheese
- 12 slices salami or ham
Directions
- To prepare the dough add warm water, yeast and sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer. Leave to stand for five minutes.
- Next add the Gateway Salt, oil and flour. Mix to form a dough and knead with a dough hook or by hand for 7 minutes or until the dough is smooth. Add a touch more flour if needed.
- Pop the dough in a bowl with a drizzle of oil, cover and pop in a warm place for 30 minutes to double in size.
- To make the sauce combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and mix to combine.
- Once risen take the dough, roll into a snake and divide into 12 small balls and stretch each portion out to the size of a cupcake tin, like you are lining a muffin tray with pastry.
- Once the muffin tray is all lined, add a teaspoon of the sauce into each cupcake.
- Fold each piece of salami in half and then in half again to form a folded triangle-ish shape, pop that in the centre of each cupcake pointy end down.
- Sprinkle the cheese evenly on top of each cup cake.
- Set the cupcakes aside to rise for 10 minutes and preheat oven to 180 C Fan Bake.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the cheese is golden and melted and the dough is cooked through
