Homemade Pizza Pockets

"Who wants pizza?" "I do! I do! I do!" "Can I have mine with just cheese?" "Can I have mine with pepperoni?" "Can I have mine with no sauce?" "Mama can I have mine with just veggies and cheese?"

If your home is anything like mine no one can ever agree what they want on their pizza. If I even attempted to accommodate that many people when ordering out I would easily spend around $100 just on pizza! Who spends that much? Sure is not me, nor will I. So here is my quick and easy go to for homemade pizza pockets. I will be showing you just pepperoni and cheese, but hey get creative put whatever you love on your pizza in them.

Just a little added note: My teens Love to have them to take for their lunches. They also make great snacks or on the "We are running so late meals." (Hey that happens a lot round here. Don't judge. Lol.)

What You Need:

2 tubes of crescent rolls (Will make 8 pockets)

27 pepperoni

shredded mozzarella cheese

pizza sauce (about 1 tbsp. each)

wax paper

cooking spray

How To Make It:

Lay wax paper over work surface to prevent crescents from sticking 

Peel off wrapper and pop open crescent tube

 Lay out  crescent rolls on work surface

 

 Cut into 4 squares and press together the seams in the middle of each square

Add about a tablespoon of pizza sauce to each square on only one side

 Add 3 pepperoni's on top of sauce

 Add cheese on top of pepperoni

 Fold unused side over and pinch all 3 sides together

 Lay out all 8 onto a greased cookie sheet

Bake for 15-18 minutes depending how hot your oven is at 325

When cooked pull out of oven and let sit for about 5-10 minutes

 Serve and enjoy!

Pizza Balls

Who doesn't love pizza right? But when you have little mouths that there's no way that they are going to manage to pick up a normal size slice and have at it, you need to get creative about it.

I have some that like crust. Others that wont even eat close to the crust. My wee ones well, they are just at that age where they pick everything up and fist it into their mouths two handed and look like a chipmunk!

So when my "Awesmazing" (that is a word my oldest coined after camp last year) sister Keeley Saint James found this floating around Facebook it was almost a very nice sisterly demand to give it a try. She clamed it could be the answer to all my pizza troubles.

So here it is:

Pizza Balls:

What you need:

3 cans Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuits (10 per can),

pepperoni slices,
Either shredded or block cheese, cut in small equal cubes
1 beaten egg,
1 Tbsp. Parmesan,
1 Tbsp. Italian seasoning
1/2 Tbsp. Garlic powder
1 jar pizza sauce
cooking spray
wax paper
13x9 baking pan

Make it:

Put wax paper down over work surface and open biscuits

Flatten biscuits out with the heal of your hand (Great to get the kids help you do!)

Place 1 peperoni in the center of flatten biscuit

Add cheese

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top with next peperoni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gather edges of the biscuit and pat together to make a ball

 



 

 

In a small bowl crack and beat egg

 

 

Brush Pizza balls with beaten egg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mix Italian seasoning, Garlic powder and parmesan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sprinkle mix over Pizza Balls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turn Oven to 350

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bake for 18 min

 

 

Remove from oven and let cool for 5 min

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serve with Pizza sauce on the side and Enjoy!