This unique pizza appetizer is perfect for kids to make, whether you’re serving it for a party, a family movie night, or including in a special lunch box. These Mini Deep Dish Pizzas are just four ingredients and ready to enjoy in less than 15 minutes.

Mini Deep Dish Pizza Recipe

Fridays are family nights at our house, and it’s become somewhat of a tradition to make a unique pizza recipe for it.

These muffin pan pizzas are a fun way to serve pizza, and you can even set up a little “pizza bar station” for the kids to personalize the toppings for their pizzas. They would be perfect for a kids’ party, doubling as both an activity and a snack.

You could even make these just like a traditional Chicago-style deep dish, layering the cheese first, then toppings, then the sauce, but we did a more conventional pizza lay-out. The canned biscuit crust does have a similar buttery taste and that fluffy-yet-crunchy texture of a real Chicago deep dish.

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• Pizza Donuts
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• Apple Pie Dessert Pizza
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Canned Biscuit Dough Recipes

Using canned biscuit dough made these mini pizzas super duper easy. Here are some of our other favorite recipes that we’ve used it in:

• Pull-apart Pizza Bread
• Pull-apart Garlic Bread
• Olive Pull-apart Loaf
• Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings
• Pizza Donuts
• Monkey Bread
• Mini Chicken Pot Pies
• Pumpkin Pull-apart bread

Of course, you can make from-scratch pizza dough for this recipe (I’ll be sharing our easy recipe for that soon), or you could use pie crust, egg roll wrappers, puff pastry, cut up tortillas, etc. 

I’ve also included our from-scratch biscuit dough recipe below, but just note that the biscuits will be much denser than what you see in the pictures.

Can these mini pizzas be frozen? Yes, although they are definitely best enjoyed fresh, you can freeze the mini pizzas in a freezer-safe container or ziptop bag for up to 3 months after baking.

Check out our quick recipe video for how to make mini deep dish pizzas and then don’t forget to scroll down to grab our free printable recipe:

Mini Deep Dish Pizza Ingredients

• Canned biscuit dough
• Tomato sauce
• Shredded cheese
• Mini pepperonis

Scroll down to the printable recipe card for full measurements.

Tip: swap out the mini pepperonis for your favorite pizza toppings.

From-Scratch Biscuit Dough:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 Tablespoon butter
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

Kitchen Tools You May Find Helpful

• Muffin pan
• Spoon
• Cheese grater

How to Make Mini Deep Dish Pizzas

Preheat oven to 350F

Grease a large muffin pan and assemble all ingredients.

Press a biscuit into each cavity of your muffin pan, creating a well in the center.

Add half a tablespoon of tomato sauce to the well of the biscuit, then top with 1 Tablespoon of cheese and three mini pepperonis.

Bake for 12 minutes, until crusts of the mini pizzas are golden brown.

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Grab your free printable for our mini deep dish pizzas recipe:

These mini deep dish pizzas are perfect for a party appetizer, casual family night meal, or as a lunch box main. They are so cute and delicious – the kids will go crazy for them!

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