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tear-and-share pepperoni pizza rolls
“This recipe was AMAZING! I can’t tell you in words how yummy this recipe truly was! All I can say is that it was just completely AMAZING!” —Tammy, recipe tester, age 10
Prepare Ingredients
Gather Baking Equipment
Place parchment paper round in bottom of 8-inch round metal cake pan. Spray parchment paper and sides of pan lightly with vegetable oil spray.
Spray clean counter lightly with vegetable oil spray. Transfer room-temperature dough to greased counter. Gently press and stretch dough into 6-inch square, popping any large bubbles. Use bench scraper or kitchen shears to cut square into 12 equal pieces. Cover dough pieces with plastic wrap.
To make 12 equal pieces, use bench scraper or kitchen shears to cut square into 4 equal strips. Cut each strip into 3 equal pieces (you’ll have 12 pieces total).
Remove 1 piece of dough from under plastic (keep remaining pieces covered). Shape, fill, and form 1 roll with pepperoni and mozzarella cheese. Flip dough ball over and place in parchment-lined cake pan. Repeat with remaining dough pieces, pepperoni, and mozzarella cheese.
2up: Forming Pepperoni Pizza Rolls
Pat 1 piece of dough into 3-inch circle. Place 1 slice pepperoni in center of circle. Top pepperoni with heaping 1 tablespoon shredded mozzarella cheese and second slice pepperoni.
Fold edges of dough up and over filling and pinch edges well to close. Flip ball over and place in parchment-lined cake pan.
Cover cake pan with plastic wrap and let dough balls rise until slightly puffed and touching each other, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
While dough balls rise, adjust oven rack to lowest position and heat oven to 400 degrees. In small microwave-safe bowl, combine oil and garlic. Heat in microwave until warm and garlic is fragrant, 15 to 30 seconds.
Once dough has risen, remove plastic. Use pastry brush to paint tops of dough balls with garlic oil. Sprinkle evenly with Parmesan cheese.
Food for Thought
How to Bring Dough to Room Temperature
If your pizza dough is cold from the fridge, you can leave it out on the counter for 1 to 2 hours to bring it to room temperature before starting. To bring it to room temperature faster, place cold dough in a zipper-lock plastic bag, squeeze out extra air, and seal the bag. Place the bag in a large bowl filled with hot water. Let dough sit in water until warmed to room temperature, about 15 minutes, turning and squeezing dough a few times while it sits.
The Ultimate Shareable Snack
Tear-and-share bread, monkey bread, bubble bread—they’re all different names for the same kind of dish: balls of dough, baked close together in a pan, that are served warm and pulled apart with your hands. While there are lots of savory tear-and-share breads (like this one!), its roots are sweet. In the 1950s, a Hungarian dessert called aranygaluska (“golden dumplings” in Hungarian), a cinnamon‑flavored, pull-apart coffee cake, became popular in America. Today, many Americans refer to a similar recipe, made of yeasted dough balls coated in butter, cinnamon, and sugar, as “monkey bread.”
