Quick & Easy Family Meal – Mini Pizzas

Making a meal that my whole family will love is always a chore. Pinterest inspires me daily but I always think, “But will my picky girls and even pickier husband love this?” To get through our day I have figured out that when it comes time for dinner I am better with quick and easy meals with every day ingredients and skipping the ‘let’s experience with new flavors’ road. My girls love to help in the kitchen so I tend to put things together that they can help with and one of those things is pizza.

Pizza is a perfect convenient dinner for us because we can all customize our food and plus it’s super easy and fast to make.

Clean-up was always annoying though because I had to deal with the oils from the dough, and baked on cheeses on the pan. That is until I started using  Parchment Paper!  Parchment Paper now makes clean-up as easy as making dinner and I love products that make my life easier!

To start I tear off a sheet of parchment. A trick I recently learned is that you can turn your pan upside down and press the parchment over the inverted pan, creasing along the edges. Now you have a molded sheet of parchment that fits inside the pan perfectly.

Roll out your pizza dough to your desired thickness and then use a round cookie cutter to make your mini pizzas or just flip a drinking glass over and bam! instant circle cutter! You can get all fancy and make your own dough but like I said, I don’t have time for that so I use store bought dough and it’s just as yummy.

Spread some homemade pizza sauce on the uncooked pizza dough rounds. Next pick out all your families favorite pizza toppings like, ground beef, bacon, red peppers, and of course you can’t forget the cheese.

Bake these bad boys for about 10 minutes at 350° and you have a dinner everyone will love in no time flat.

And look at how easy clean-up is. I just lift up the Parchment Paper and I am done. You can see where the oils of the dough soaked into the parchment but it’s so awesome that it absorbed it without letting anything leak onto the pan. Clever I know. I wish I came up with parchment right about now.

No burnt cheese to scrape off, no oily residue to scrub. Nothing but a clean pan and a happy mom. Oh and the family is happy because they got a yummy meal.

49 Thoughts on “Quick & Easy Family Meal – Mini Pizzas

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  2. Parchment paper is a must in my kitchen!

  3. Love mini pizzas! Thanks for the recipe.

  4. Yum! My boys would gobble those up!

  5. I love the mini pizza idea minus the bell peppers since I’m allergic to them.

    • Double Duty Mommy on February 24, 2013 at 4:39 pm said:

      That’s the beauty of them – everyone can have whatever toppings they want! And it’s much cheaper than buying pizza at a pizza place or frozen pizza.

  6. What a fun idea!! I love the idea of personal mini pizzas with no clean up!

  7. Mmmm, that looks delicious!

  8. You know I voted for you and will continue to vote for you throughout the competition. Reynolds Parchment Paper made all of my holiday cookie baking a breeze!

  9. Those look yummy!

  10. That’ll definitely save time from scrubbing pans.

  11. Fingers crossed for you!!! These are super cute – love my Reynolds parchment!

  12. You can never go wrong with pizza can you?! Make your own pizzas are always fun, and you can always slide in some healthier toppings too :)

  13. Looks amazing! We go through a ton of parchment paper in my house so I’ll check this out. Good Luck!

  14. Keely Hostetter on February 21, 2013 at 10:45 am said:

    My kids would have so much fun with these, I love receipes where they can create their own thing. Thanks.

  15. Great idea! Isn’t that parchment paper awesome?

  16. Those look great and I try to keep parchment paper on hand.

  17. Those look delicious and perfect for little hands!

  18. Cute! Pizzas are always a hit in our house too!

  19. This looks so yummy!

  20. Those look so good! I love foods that are easy to make and that little fingers can pick up by themselves.

  21. I have that exact roll of parchment paper and use it ALL the time. Great idea with the little pizzas!

  22. I actually have Reynolds Parchment paper in my draw right now :)

  23. I recently started using parchment paper for baking and wish I had done so sooner!

  24. Ashley S on February 20, 2013 at 1:55 pm said:

    They look delicious! And I love an easy clean up!

  25. They look so good!

  26. Perfect for afternoon snacks too!

  27. I started using parchment paper about a year ago. Don’t know I didn’t before but it sure saves A LOT of time. I’ll use the mini pizza idea soon. Love that!

  28. Have you ever made these and frozen them? If so, how long did you reheat them?

  29. Those look yummy! I use parchment paper for a lot of my baking, it’s cleaner and less messy than greasing the cookie pan!

  30. Those are so cute & I bet they’re delicious!

  31. love this idea. mini pizzas are always amazing.

  32. Those are really cute and look great!

  33. saminder gumer on February 19, 2013 at 11:54 pm said:

    these look great and seem easy to make. i think the kids will love it.

  34. I love using Reynold’s products! They are great! I’m voting for you!!!!

  35. oh red peppers they looked like tomatoes but tasty all the same

  36. I make these with my toddler all the time!

  37. I love making pizzas with my kids.

  38. Sandy VanHoey on February 19, 2013 at 1:39 pm said:

    I use the Parchment paper also and love it. The mini pizzas I love making for my grandson for a snack and sometimes for dinner when I know he won’t like what we’re having.

  39. Mini pizzas are perfectly little man sized :)

  40. My girls would love these mini pizzas!

  41. I love mini pizzas! Everyone can customize their own, the way they like it!

  42. ohhh this is easy peasy! the kids would love it!

  43. Janet W. on February 19, 2013 at 6:56 am said:

    My grandson would love, love, love this! Thanks for the idea!

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