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These English muffin pizzas are a quick, perfect dinner or lunch everyone can customize. Whether you like cheese, pepperoni, or mushrooms, personalized English muffin pizzas are perfect for the whole family.
Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy to Make: These cute little pizzas are so easy to make! They are perfect for an after-school snack or a quick lunch for teenagers coming home for lunch.
- Family-friendly: Your kids will love making these for themselves. They can add whatever toppings they want and even make cute little faces.
- Versatile: These English muffin pizzas would be a great dinner on a busy weeknight. Make my Olive Garden copycat salad, homemade breadtwists, to go with, and my cream cheese snickerdoodles for dessert.
English Muffin Pizza Ingredients
The ingredients for these are pretty basic. What you top them with is up to you and your family. I like to keep a bag of English muffins in my freezer when I need a quick dinner. The exact measurements are in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- English Muffins: Use your favorite brand of English muffins.
- Pizza Sauce: Buy your favorite or make your own
- Mozzarella Cheese: Use fresh grated mozzarella for the best melting results.
- Toppings: Pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, chopped basil.
Making Easy and Quick Pizzas
This English muffin pizza recipe is so quick and easy that you’ll wonder why you haven’t made them before. They are an easy way to satisfy everyone’s pizza cravings, you’ll be the hero of the day!
- Slice: Cut the English muffins in half and place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Top: Spread 1-2 Tablespoons of pizza sauce on each of the English muffin halves. Top with an equal amount of cheese and toppings of your choice.
- Bake: Place in a preheated oven set to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, and bake for 10-12 minutes until the cheese is melted and golden.
English Muffin Pizza Tips and Variations
This recipe is so easy to adjust to use what you have on hand or what your taste preferences are. It’s one of those dinners where everyone is happy because they can make their pizzas just how they like.
- Cheese: Besides mozzarella, you can use cheddar, asiago, pepper jack, Asiago, feta, and parmesan for starters
- Sauces: Mix it up by using spaghetti sauce, BBQ sauce, pesto sauce, vodka sauce, sun-dried tomato basil, or alfredo.
- Meats: There are tons of options here, including mini pepperoni, sausage, ham, bacon, BBQ chicken, prosciutto, and salami.
- Veggies: We can get pretty wild here with these. Try peppers, onion, artichokes, spinach, pineapple, pepperocini, basil, garlic, or anything else you can think of. Veggies won’t cook all the way through before the pizzas are done so it’s a good idea to pre cook them partially before adding them to the pizzas.
- English Muffins: There are lots of options for English muffins. You can use whole wheat, low-carb, sourdough, or plain. Even gluten-free pizzas will work with these. Use what your family will eat best.
- Toasty: If you like a toastier base, broil the English muffins on the cookie sheet before topping. Place under the broiler for 1-3 minutes. Watch closely so you don’t burn them. This give the english muffin a nice crunchy base. It will also help keep the english muffin from getting too soft because of the sauce.
Freezing and Storing Mini English Muffin Pizzas
These pizzas are great for lunches or when ever hunger strikes and you need to feed the masses. Make a huge batch of these and freeze some for the days when you need a lunch, dinner or midnight snack that will certainly satisfy better than junk food!
- Reheat: Remove from freezer and take off the wrapping. Place on a cookie sheet and heat in the oven at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Check often to make sure they are heated through. These can also be reheated in the microwave. Place on a microwave safe plate with a paper towel on the bottom. Reheat in the microwave for 1-2 minutes, checking to make sure it’s heated through.
- Freeze: Make the english muffin pizzas and directed. Let cool completely on a wire rack, this keeps them from getting too soggy and soft on the bottom. Once they’ve cooled, wrap them individually in plastic wrap or foil and place in a freezer bag. Freeze for up to 3-4 months.
- Freeze before Baking: These can also be frozen before you bake them. Toast your english muffin, then top with desired toppings. Do not bake. Individually wrap the pizzas in plastic wrap or foil and place in a freezer safe bag. When ready to use remove from freezer and bake as directed below. Because they were not pre baked they might take a few more minutes to cook all the way through.
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English Muffin Pizzas
Ingredients
- 6 whole English muffins sliced
- 1 1/2 cups pizza sauce
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese shredded
Optional toppings:
- Pepperoni
- Olives
- Mushrooms
- Chopped Basil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On a baking sheet line the English muffins on parchment paper. Add about 2 tablespoons of pizza sauce and spread evenly on the top of the English muffin. Top evenly with cheese and desired toppings.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until cheese is melted and golden.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
great idea, fun too, and easier than all of the heavy duty holiday recipes, thank you!