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Pull-Apart Pizza Bread – Recipe

 

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pull-apart pizza bread -close up view

Party foods are so much fun to prepare, and very rewarding to know that your guests enjoyed them.

I spotted a very interesting food picture on Pinterest , and was very anxious to test it.

The original recipe is in a foreign language, so I played with it a bit, to come up with satisfactory results.

Today I am sharing this recipe with you, and some helpful hints, via pictures, of how to best arrange this impressive creation.

pull-apart pizza bread - serving

Best served warm, with pizza sauce or salsa, on the side.

This bread may also be made ahead of time and warmed up in the oven before serving (wrapped in aluminum foil to prevent drying out), microwaved in small portions, or individual servings.

This recipe yields about 60 serving pieces.

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pull-apart pizza bread -filling

This is how you arrange the sauce, pepperoni, and cheese on each dough round.

pull-apart pizza bread - first fold over

 

pull-apart pizza bread - second fold over

Step 2 on how to fold the filled dough rounds.

pull-apart pizza bread - first layer

pull-apart pizza bread - fully layered

Step 3 on how to arrange the filled and folded pieces in a spring-form pan.

Pull-Apart Pizza Bread – Recipe

Pull-Apart Pizza Bread – Recipe

You can get creative with other fillings, such as pesto and goat cheese, Swiss cheese and ham, spinach and cream cheese, even apples with brown sugar and cinnamon....

Ingredients

  • 1 cup warm milk
  • 3/4 tsp. dry yeast (I use Fleischmann's Rapid Rise Yeast)
  • 1 tsp. granulated sugar
  • 5 Tbs. all-purpose flour (I use Gold Metal unbleached)
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup Greek yogurt, plain
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
  • 2 Tbs. Mayonnaise
  • 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour (I use Gold Metal unbleached)
  • 2 Tbs. butter, melted
  • 5 oz. pepperoni, thinly sliced, cut into half circles (or larger pack with thick slices - need 30 whole pieces to cut in half)
  • 2 cups of Mozzarella cheese, shredded
  • 14 oz. jar of Pizza Sauce
  • Dried ground Basil
  • 1 egg (to use for egg wash)

Instructions

  1. in a small bowl, using a fork, mix warm milk, sugar, 5 Tbs. of flour and yeast.
  2. Place it in a warm, draft-fee place to rise and get frothy.
  3. In a medium bowl mix the heavy cream, yogurt, and baking soda. Set aside.
  4. In a small bowl mix the mayonnaise, salt, and Italian seasoning. Set aside.
  5. Sift 4 cups of flour into a large bowl. Set aside
  6. Melt the butter. Set aside.
  7. Add the cream/yogurt mixture into the yeast mixture, and mix gently with a fork, to incorporate evenly.
  8. Mix in the mayonnaise/salt mixture.
  9. Add the wet mixture into the large bowl with flour and mix with a fork.
  10. Add in the melted butter, and mix well working with your hands.
  11. Transfer the dough onto a floured work area, and knead it for couple of minutes to form a silky smooth dough ball (about 2 minutes).
  12. Grease a large bowl with 2 tsp. of oil, place the dough in the bowl, and move it around, to oil it on all sides.
  13. Cover with a kitchen towel, place it in a warm, draft-free place, to double in bulk (1-2 hours).
  14. Prepare a 10 inch round spring form pan, by lining the bottom with a circle of greased parchment paper, and generously grease the sides of the pan with vegetable shortening, such as Crisco.
  15. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  16. Work with 1/2 of the dough at a time.
  17. Place it on a floured work surface and roll it out to less than 1/8 inch thick.
  18. Use a 3 inch round biscuit cutter, and cut out circles.
  19. Please dough circles onto a platter and spread 1/2 tsp of pizza sauce, then place two half-circles of pepperoni in top edge of the circle, then place a pinch of shredded mozzarella cheese over the pepperoni. Sprinkle with dried ground Basil.
  20. Fold each circle in half , from bottom to top, to cover the stuffing.
  21. Then fold again in half from left to right.
  22. Arrange stuffed dough pockets along the side of the prepared baking pan, to form the first layer.
  23. Repeat the above process until all dough is used up, and the pan is filled with stuffed dough pockets.
  24. Prepare egg wash by beating the egg with 1 tsp. of water, and use a pastry brush to spread it over the top of the dough pockets.
  25. Place the pan on a sheet of aluminum paper, in case it leaks during baking, and place it in the preheated oven on a middle rack.
  26. Bake for 30 minutes.
  27. Decrease the temperature to 325 degrees F and bake another 5 minutes.
  28. Remove from the oven, let it cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
  29. Remove onto a serving platter, and serve warm with pizza sauce or salsa.
  30. Enjoy.
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