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Our Homemade Pizza Rolls start with crescent dough, keeping the recipe so simple and completely irresistible! Load these up with melty mozzarella and plenty of pepperoni!
We’re big on snacks in my house.
You won’t often find me telling the kids not to spoil their dinner. If they pull out a snack too close to dinner time, I’m probably going to join them and just push dinner back an hour. 😉
I’m basically a toddler with no willpower and I just want to eat snacks all day.
Love that these Homemade Pizza Rolls can double as lunch or a snack! Perfect for serving up to hungry football fans, but they also make a perfectly acceptable lunch.
Cheesy to the max, loaded with spicy pepperoni, and it’s all wrapped up in buttery crescent roll dough! We dip these guys in pizza sauce to complete the pizza vibe.
Serve these alongside our grape jelly lil smokies, cheesy ranch ritz bits, crack chicken sliders, and our pimento cheese sausage balls for the perfect game day spread.
Are these Pizza Rolls or Pepperoni Rolls?
I think they’re both since we are serving them with some pizza sauce for dipping. Technically they are more like pepperoni rolls since the sauce is not going into the rolls like the store bought pizza rolls would have.
So you can call them whatever you want. Pizza rolls, or pepperoni rolls. They’re just as good either way!
Homemade Pizza Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 package crescent roll dough
- 32 slices pepperoni
- 4 mozzarella string cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
- Pizza sauce for dipping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Unroll the crescent dough and separate into 8 triangles.
- Place 4 slices of pepperoni along the wide part of the crescent dough. Place half of a string cheese in the center of the pepperoni and roll the dough up as you normally would. Repeat with remaining pieces of dough.
- Melt the butter in the microwave. Finely mince the garlic and stir into the butter along with the parsley and onion powder. Spoon over the crescent rolls.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve hot, with warm pizza sauce for dipping.
Tips & Notes:
Nutrition Information:
Pepperoni Pizza Roll Ingredients:
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Crescent Roll Dough – It’s quick and easy! One package of crescent roll dough should be enough to make 8 homemade pizza rolls.
Pepperoni – You can use packaged slices of pepperoni, like you’d use on pizza, or you can use deli sliced pepperoni, like you’d use on a sandwich. Both work great!
Mozzarella – You’ll use some mozzarella string cheese to load the pizza rolls up with all that melty cheesy goodness.
Garlic Butter Sauce – You’ll prepare a simple sauce for adding flavor to the homemade pizza rolls prepared from melted butter, minced garlic, dried parsley, and onion powder.
Pizza Sauce – Warm this up and serve it on the side for dipping!
What We Love About PEPPERONI PIZZA ROLLS:
- Easy: This pizza roll recipe is so simple! Crescent roll dough, pepperoni, mozzarella cheese sticks. What could be simpler than that? The garlic butter sauce is quick and easy to prepare too.
- Dipping: These pizza rolls are perfect for dipping!
- Melty & Gooey: We’re obsessed with fried mozzarella sticks and this has that same vibe with the most glorious cheese pulls!
- Kid-Friendly: Whether you’re serving these to kids or letting the kids help in the kitchen, these are a great option.
How to Make Pizza Rolls:
Assemble: Unroll the crescent dough and separate it along the perforations to make 8 triangles. Place 4 pieces of pepperoni along the wider end of the dough and top that with half of a stick of string cheese.
Roll: Once you’ve piled on the pepperoni and cheese roll them up and ogle them. They look irresistible already.
Garlic Butter Sauce: Top ’em with a simple garlic butter. It’s the right thing to do. Melt some butter and stir in minced garlic, onion powder, and parsley and drizzle over the pizza rolls.
Bake: After rolling and topping with garlic butter place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until the pizza rolls are golden brown and melty!
Serve: You’re definitely going to want to serve these homemade pizza rolls while they’re still good and hot from the oven! And don’t forget to dip ’em in some pizza sauce!
FAQ’s:
You can keep any leftover pizza rolls stored in an airtight container in the fridge for about 3 to 4 days. They can be reheated in the oven or the air fryer for about 4-5 minutes at 350 degrees.
Sure! You can use pretty much any pizza topping that you could fit into one of these rolls. Olives, bacon bits, onion, and sausage would all work, just be careful not to overfill the rolls.
These work great in the air fryer! Air fry at 350 degrees for 5-6 minutes or until the dough is golden brown and cooked through.
MORE HOMEMADE PIZZA RECIPES!
- Buffalo Chicken Pizza
- Breakfast Pizza
- Mac and Cheese Pizza
- Air Fryer Pizza
- Cauliflower Pizza Crust Recipe
- Crescent Roll Veggie Pizza
Nicole says
Great recipe! Would it be okay to substitute the string cheese for pieces of/shredded mozzarella? Because I loveeee mozzarella with anything pepperoni lol
Karly says
Yeah, I think that would work just fine!
Michelle says
I so love these. Funny story, the last time I made them I was about 11 weeks pregnant and having major morning sickness. I miss these. I can’t eat them anymore. They are associated with that memory. ๐ Gorgeous photos.
ami@naivecookcooks says
This recipe is calling my name!!
Ton says
These look delish! Perfect for a dinner party with kids that I’m having this weekend. Can these be prepared ahead of time? How long? Any instructions?
Karly says
@Ton,
I would think that preparing them in advance, up to rolling them up, would be fine for a day. Cover them in saran wrap, refrigerate, and then bring out and brush with the melted butter right before baking. Haven’t tried it myself, but that’s how I’d go about it.
Allison - Celebrating Sweets says
I need these in my life, like, right now. And I’m totally with you, that gap between lunch and dinner MUST be filled with snacks. ๐
Emily @ Life on Food says
Oh man these look so good. My husband. He would love them.
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
We could be 3 year olds together. I can inhale snacks like these. Pizza Rolls? I can still remember the total mouth burn from being in such a hurry to eat them! Love these.
Silvia says
I don’t think I’ll ever get used to Americans calling salame “pepperoni”, but this is a great idea. Especially on sunday evenings when you don’t to cook anything fancy or that takes much time. It’s a bit like panzerotti but with a different shape.
Karly says
@Silvia,
Pepperoni is a variety of salami. ๐
Pamala says
Not in Italy. If you order pepperoni pizza, you get pizza with peppers on it. They don’t have “pepperoni”as we know it. I’m sure because I lived there years.
Pamela says
Lol, I just noticed these comments are from 2014!
Annie @ Annie's Noms says
Holy yum, these look amazing Karly! And I love how easy they are too, these would not be safe in my house, I’d eat them all in one sitting!!
Melanie @ Carmel Moments says
Ohhh…they look fabulous. Kids would surely beg for me to make if they saw these pictures.
Pinned.
Have a beautiful weekend!
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche says
What a great idea! Any new versions of pizza are a-ok in my book ๐ I’d make a veggie version but I’m thinking you could be so creative with these and go for all sorts of fillings!
Angelyn @ Everyday Desserts says
another way to consume pizza – yes!
Karly says
@Angelyn @ Everyday Desserts,
As if we really needed a new way! ๐
Julie | This Gal Cooks says
Whoa! These little pizza rolls look AMAZING, Karly! I’m starving and haven’t started on dinner yet so I know I could probably devour all of these right now!
Jennifer says
This recipe has my husband’s name written all over it!!
Aimee @ ShugarySweets says
My kids would devour these!!!! I may have to help too.