Mini Pizza Bites
These mini pizza bites are the ultimate game day appetizer. Pepperoni, sausage, bacon, and melted cheese wrapped in a warm, buttery biscuit and served with tomato sauce for dipping, ready in under an hour.
Ingredients
- -3 slices of bacon diced
- -2 Italian sausage links casings removed (this end up being around ⅓ lb of sausage)
- -⅓ + ¼ cups of mini pepperoni or you can quarter regular size pepperoni slices
- -2 packages of refrigerated biscuits regular size, not grands
- -Flour for your surface
- -5 pieces of string cheese quartered
- -¾ of a stick of butter melted
- -1 tsp. of dried parsley
- -½ tsp. of garlic powder
- -1 tablespoon of Romano cheese
Instructions
- Heat a pan over medium high heat, add your bacon and saute it for 2 minutes.
- Add your sausage to the pan and begin browning it and breaking it up with a wooden spoon for 5 minutes.
- Add the pepperoni to the pan and keep stirring it periodically until the bacon is crispy and the sausage is nicely browned, about another 5 minutes.
- Drain the meat into a paper towel lined bowl and let it cool for a couple minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Sprinkle some flour onto your surface along with you rolling pin.
- Roll each biscuit or that it's flat (to a similar thickness to a pie crust).
- Place a spoonful of the meat mixture into the middle of each biscuit along with a piece of the cheese- don't over fill them!
- Gather the outsides of the biscuit dough all the way around the biscuit and bring those edges up to the middle and press them into the middle to seal. This will create a nice little bun-like package.
- Place the pizza bites sealed-side down onto a parchment-lined pan.
- In a separate bowl mix the butter, parsley, garlic powder and Romano cheese and brush it onto the top of each pizza bite.
- Bake for 15-17 minutes or until golden brown.
Notes
- Don't overfill the biscuits. A spoonful of filling is plenty. Too much and they won't seal properly.
- Press the seams firmly. Make sure the edges are really pinched together so nothing leaks out during baking.
- Drain the meat well. Any excess grease will make the dough soggy, so don't skip the paper towel step.
- Roll the biscuits thin. You want them about the thickness of a pie crust so they bake through evenly.
- Serve with warm marinara. A good dipping sauce takes these completely over the top.
- Ingredients to prep ahead- Assemble the pizza bites the night before, cover, and refrigerate. Just brush with the butter topping and bake when ready to serve.
- Leftovers and storage- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. Reheat in the oven or air fryer to bring back that crispy crust.