Pizza Pop-Itz

Pizza Pop-Itz ~ 2 Flavors of my take on Debonairs Restaurant’s very popular Pop-Itz ! Perfect appetizers or snacks and great for the lunch box too

This is my take on our local Pizza restaurants’ little snacks (which costs way more than homemade by the way!). We decided to start making our own Pizza Pop-Itz at the end of last year and they were an instant hit.

I did actually blog about this particular recipe at the time, but unfortunately it was one of the posts which had mysteriously vanished from my blog – together with another 45 posts.

That was during my horrible few months I spent on WordPress the first time. I am sure it was something I did wrong as WordPress is actually the best platform for a blog !

Some of the recipes I lost, I eventually added to the blog again.

But as I did not have a complete record of all that went missing, like this one for the Pizza Pop-Itz, it took some time before I realized I needed to add them again.

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Fortunately I know this recipe by heart for one simple reason – I make these little savory Pop-Itz all the time. I did notice however, that the Pizza restaurant have a new flavor available.

Be sure of it, there will be some (homemade) on our table soon !

Serve these Pizza Pop-Itz as a savory snack, with or without more snacks on Game Day, or make some for the lunchbox (although I do prefer them warm). You can also serve these as an appetizer.

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Pizza Pop-Itz

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

20 mins

Settling Time

10 mins

Total Time

30 mins

 

Pizza Pop-Itz ~ 2 Flavors of my take on Debonairs Restaurant's very popular Pop-Itz ! Perfect appetizers or snacks and great for the lunch box too

Course: Appetizer, Snack

Servings: 18 Servings

Author: Linda Nortje

Ingredients

• 1 roll Frozen Shortcrust Pastry defrosted
• 1 1/2 cups Cream Cheese plain, softened
• 1 extra-large Egg
• 1/2 t Salt
• 1/4 t Black Pepper
• 1 t Oregano
• 1/2 t Paprika plus extra to sprinkle
• 1/2 cup Cheddar Cheese grated
• 1/2 cup Mozzarella Cheese grated

Extra’s for the “Chutney and Cheese” flavored:

• 1 1/2 TB Fruit Chutney
• 1/4 cup Cheddar Cheese grated

Extra’s for the “Spring Onion and Ham” flavored:

• 3 TB Spring Onions finely chopped
• 3 TB Deli Ham chopped

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180 deg C (350 deg F) – spray 2 x 12 hole muffin pans with cooking oil

2. Unroll the Shortcrust pastry and use a 5cm (2 inch) diameter cookie cutter to cut out 18 round pastry pieces – roll a little thinner and bigger – press into the muffin holes
3. Combine the Cream Cheese, Egg, Salt, Pepper, Oregano, Paprika and both Cheeses – use an electric mixer on medium
4. Divide the mixture into two bowls – add the ingredients for each flavor to each of the two bowls and mix to combine well
5. Fill each pastry round 3/4 of the way (these will puff during baking and then settle again on cooling), half with the one flavor and the other half with the second flavor
6. Sprinkle with extra Paprika and bake 20 – 25 minutes or until puffed and golden
7. Remove from the oven – let cool and settle for 10 minutes – transfer to a cooling rack

Recipe Notes

• You can also only make one flavor – choose your flavor and double up on the Extra’s ingredients

Best served warm.

LINDA

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