Pizza cupcakes: A creative twist from Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking

Hi Bold Bakers, as you have seen on Bigger Bolder Baking, pizza has come in all different shapes and sizes. But today I am going to blow your mind with savory pizza cupcakes. So let's get baking. So this cupcake has everything you love about a pizza. It's got gooey cheese, tomato sauce, and even pepperonis. Now as always, the recipe for this can be found on my website, BiggerBolderBaking.com, and if you haven't already done so, make sure you tap that subscribe button down below. Okay let's get started in a large bowl. Add in some flour, baking powder, salt, and some dried herbs, and then mix all together. By dry Italian herbs, I mean basil, oregano, anything like that will work really well. Okay, that's nice and mixed, now we're going to add in our wet ingredients into this. Pour in your milk, and then crack in your eggs. And then gently whisk this mix together. So now if you don't eat eggs, you can always replace eggs in this recipe with flaxseed. But as always, I've got a great egg substitute chart, and you can download that off my website, so I recommend you always reference that. So as you can see, this is a very thin batter, but that's what we're going for, this is perfect. So now I'm going to take this and transfer it into our cupcake tins. Before we pour in our batter, I'm gonna generously grease the cupcake tin with some olive oil and that just helps them pop right out of the tin. Okay, they're well greased. Now we're gonna take our batter and put around two tablespoons in the bottom of the tin. Okay, these are looking good. So next I'm gonna add in some grated mozzarella, this is my favorite part of a pizza, and we're just gonna put a little bit in the center of the batter. So next thing we're going to add in, of course, is tomato sauce. Now you can make your own homemade tomato sauce, and I have a recipe on my website, or you can use store-bought, it's up to you. Now what you want to do is just put a little bit, not too much because it kind of spreads out, on top of your mozzarella cheese. Just a little bit, just half a spoonful. So then when it bakes and you get the tomato sauce, the cheese, it's kind of the whole package when it comes to a pizza. So now that's our tomato sauce, now next I'm going to add in a little bit more cheese on top and what that's going to do, it's kind of going to encase the tomato sauce. So just keep a little pocket in the middle. So now my favorite pizza is a pepperoni pizza and I have these little mini pepperonis here and you've seen me use these before on my pizza in a mug and I absolutely love them. They're so nice. So I'm just gonna pop a few of these on top of the cheese. So if you don't eat pork, feel free to leave these out and on that note, this is a blank canvas of a cupcake so you can add in whatever you like, like pesto, feta, donuts. So that's our filling. Now we're gonna go ahead and pour more batter over the top to encase all of those yummy ingredients So pour your batter until your cupcake fills up around 3 quarters of the way full. That'll give you a nice big cupcake. So now to the top of our cupcakes we're gonna add even more cheese and more pepperoni. Now if you're familiar with my videos, I'm sure you're not surprised that I'm going big on these guys. Do you see this? Waffles always comes running when there's pepperoni around. Don't you waffles? And we're done. You could not possibly fit any more into these cupcakes, they are loaded with yummy ingredients. So now this guy is ready to be baked off. So you want to bake your cupcakes off at 350°F or 180°C for roughly 25-30 minutes or until they're really golden brown on top. So if you love pizza as much as I do, you're going to definitely want to check out my pizza in a mug, my pizza monkey bread, and my pizza scones, they are really delicious, you're gonna love them. Now, I think I just heard my timer go off, so let's check on our pizza cupcakes. If I do say so myself, these pizza cupcakes look perfect. You can tell when they're done when they're firm in the middle and golden brown on top. So when your pizza cupcakes have cooled for a few minutes, we're going to take an offset and go around the cupcake and just kind of ease it out of the tin. Perfect. These are coming out really easily. So do you see how the cupcake kind of baked around all of our filling? It's encased in there. It smells amazing. Now I'm going to cut it open and let you see all the gooey cheese inside. So this is why I went to all that trouble to load it full of ingredients, just check out that gooey mozzarella. It doesn't get much better than this. The reason I love this recipe is because you don't need to make a yeasted dough and spend all that time. You need a few ingredients, a cupcake tin, and you're ready to go. I really hope you enjoyed this episode and I will see you back here next Thursday for more Bigger Bolder Baking. Love makes the world go round. Kevin don't put that in the blooper, okay?