My two kids absolutely LOVE cheese pizza. If they can eat it for a whole week, they would. As I was looking for ideas what I can make for their lunch, I found this fun recipe for cute mini tortilla pizzas on tablespoon.com. These mini tortilla pizzas are the perfect size for my toddler and preschooler.
Not only are they a hit with my two kids, they are so easy and fun to make. You can have your little one help you out too. They only take 25 minutes to make if you are making them and 45 minutes if you have your little ones helping you. The recipe below makes 12 mini tortilla pizzas.
Ingredients
3 four tortillas ( I use the Mission Brand )
1 can Muir Glen can Muir Glen™ organic pizza sauce (15 ounce)
1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese shredded
1/2 cup mini pepperoni (I just put 3 pieces on each mini pizza, but you can put more)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- You can use a round cookie cutter. If you don't have one, you can use the pizza sauce can to cut the tortilla crust. Open the can of pizza sauce, empty the sauce from the can, and rinse the can out.
- Using the cut edge of the pizza sauce can or round cookie cutter, cut four rounds from each tortilla. Press each round into a lightly-greased cupcake pan.
- Place a tablespoon of Muir Glen™ pizza sauce into the center of each tortilla round.
- Sprinkle cheese on top of the sauce on each tortilla round.
- Top each pizza with mini pepperoni rounds.
- Bake in preheated oven for 10-12 minutes, or until cheese is bubbly.
- Remove and let it cool before using a fork to transfer mini pizzas from cupcake pan to a serving plate.
- If you are using a cookie cutter you can have them cut the round tortilla crust.
- Give each of them a tablespoon to put pizza sauce into each of the tortilla rounds
- Have them sprinkle the cheese and top each pizza with mini pepperoni rounds.
- If your kids LOVE veggies, you can add chopped bell peppers, mushrooms, or olives!
Cooking with kids is fun. You can make it into a learning session. With my little ones I would ask how many pizzas they have made, what color is the pizza sauce or cheese, what shape is the tortilla crust, etc... The number of questions are endless. Not only are they helping you cook, they are also learning!
