Rustic Pizza Poppers

Hello! Today I decided to cook up something a bit different for lunch. Turns out, it's an absolute hit and I will be making it for years to come. Here is my recipe for Rustic French Bread Pizza Poppers!

You will need :
1 egg
Mozzarella/provolone cheese sticks
Can of Pillsbury Simply French Bread
Pepperoni
and Italian seasoning.

Recipe makes approximately 12 poppers

                     While you're making your poppers go ahead and preheat that oven to 350F =)


*Separate the dough into about 12-15 pieces. Don't worry if some are bigger than others- just make sure you get to the biggest ones first...trust me you'll want the big ones!

*Flatten the dough one by one - this is important because dough of this nature will just reform back into a ball, so best to just do it one by one to save you the new grey hairs.

*Add your pepperoni and cheese - You can use your favorite kinds of cheese and add different toppings as well. If you do, please come back and leave me a comment with how it turned out!

*Pinch the edges over the toppings. Be sure to make sure there are no openings or thin spots showing color from the pepperoni. Place the popper pinched side down on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.

*Continue to do this until all your poppers are created....You're getting hungry aren't you?

 *When all your poppers are completed brush the top with lightly beaten egg and sprinkle with Italian seasoning.

* Bake your yummies for about 20 minutes...

~Let them cool, they will be very hot!~

Serve with warm pizza sauce for dippin' & enjoy!

           My family loved these! I know for sure that next time I make them I will have to double up on my recipe. Also I would add more cheese to my poppers. These are very customizable and the bread is just amazing. I made a few with only cheese and they were awesome too! Let me know what you think!

Until Next Time....

Lady Bea

My Apologies...

So, I know I haven't posted...seem to have chose a terrible time to start this journey! I had to travel to Ohio to take my son, Christopher, to his fathers. We had a fantastic spring break! So now I am back to the everyday grind and I am ready to go! Are you? I promise to be more active, and post a lot more!


Here are some recipes you can expect to see throughout the weekend:

Manicotti
Rustic Style pizza poppers

I will also discuss:

 A new service based learning project I will be working on over the next several weeks. Web Marketing components and data processing for websites. I found some really awesome websites for all the marketers and business owners out there. 


Hope everyone has had a fantastic last few days! What did you do over spring break?

Until next time...(which will be soon, I promise!!)

Lady Bea

Cinnamon Roll "Cupcakes"

Do your kids ever ask to help you bake in the kitchen and flour, egg, sugar and chocolate all over your kitchen instantly come to mind? Happens to me all the time. I would love nothing more than to let my kids help me in the kitchen whenever they want but the truth is I don't want to clean up their messes every time. Because their messes...are huge! So I am constantly on the look out for extremely simple yet fun things for the kids to cook up in the kitchen. The other day while I was making cinnamon rolls, a family favorite, I thought..how fun would it be to make these into cupcakes?...so I did.

 The only thing I needed was cupcake wrappers, a muffin tin and a can of your favorite cinnamon rolls. I used Pillsbury Flaky Cinnamon Rolls with Butter Creme Frosting. I used regular paper cupcake wrappers and found the the rolls stuck a little bit and the paper absorbed a little of the moisture of the rolls, I would recommend using foil lined wrappers to eliminate this dryness.

You can take the rolls and push them into the wrappers in the muffin tin but I recommend putting the rolls in the wrapper prior to putting them in the muffin tin. They don't get squished that way.

The can calls for 12-13 minutes at 375 degrees however I ended up having to cook the rolls an additional 2 minutes to get them all the way done in the middle.

After your rolls are done remove them from the pan for 5-8 minutes to let them cool. Then add the provided frosting/icing and enjoy! Your kids will love to help make this and there is really hardly any cleanup! Win-Win right, Mom??

Until next time...

Bea