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August 23, 2013

Mini-Frozen Pizzas {For Busy Nights or Lunchboxes!}

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I’m a big believer in homemade when it is better homemade. Homemade pizza is hard to beat! When I was creating the school lunch menu for my children, I decided to add in a pizza day. The easiest way to do this was to come up with a version that I could make in individual sizes and freeze.

Mini-Pizzas are the best things ever

How to make Mini-Frozen Pizzas

Start with preparing a good dough. This recipe is great if you need one. {Tip – Bulk yeast lasts a very long time in the freezer and stores well in a peanut butter container. I use mine straight from the freezer.}

Store yeast in freezer and use straight from the freezer

Prepare your rolling surface. I poured olive oil directly onto my butcher block and rubbed it in. Oil is a lot less messy than flour!

Prepare kneading surface for dough with olive oil

I kneaded my dough a few times, then divided into individual globs of dough. I’ve found that the equivalent dough forΒ 1 large pizza crust = 8 mini-pizza crusts. I reserved enough dough for 16 personal pizzas (same amount as 2 large pizzas).

Cut dough into pieces for individual mini-pizza crusts

Roll each glob into a circular-ish shape.

Roll glob into a circular-ish shape

Let rise until doubled.

Let Rise until double

Top with this sauceΒ (it is THE BEST), then add cheese and your choice of toppings. 2 cups of cheese per 8 mini-crusts. Β 

The BEST Pizza Sauce

Bake on 400 F until crust is golden brown, approximately 13 minutes, but watch and use your best judgment with your oven. Why bake? I want to be able to pull these out of the freezer and put into my kids lunch. If I were making frozen pizzas for dinners, I would freeze un-cooked, but still with it already raised and made.

Mini-pizzas ready to freeze or eat

This box of 16 mini-pizzas will last five weeks, eating one day per week.

Mini-Pizzas ready for the freezer

That wasn’t so bad, was it?! You could totally do it!

If your school is peanut free, isn’t this a great alternative?! And you could pull them out on a busy night. These will always be in my freezer now! You are welcome, world! πŸ™‚Β And now do you want to see it all cute in the lunchbox?

Mini pizzas can be made in bulk and frozen

Pack your lunch and watch the savings add up!

We pack our girls lunch every day. Not only does it give me control over packing healthier options that I know they’ll eat, it also saves a ton of money. School lunches here are $2.20. Five days a week for one child would be $11. Five days a week for three kids would be $33. That is $132 every four weeks if I bought my three girls lunch. Um, no thanks, I can do much better than that.

I usually send pizza on Fridays, because that is when their peers are also usually eating pizza from the cafeteria line. Let me know if you give it a try! I hope it works for you like it does for us.

From my home to yours,
Mary

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  1. kim says

    August 24, 2013 at 9:36 am

    Hi Mary, love this idea very much for my daughter’s school lunch! What’s the temperature for 13 minutes in the oven? Thanks so much for sharing!

    Reply
    • Mary says

      August 24, 2013 at 10:02 am

      400 F. Sorry I missed that! Hope your daughter likes it!

      Reply
  2. Christi says

    August 27, 2013 at 12:37 pm

    When you put them in lunch boxes, do you put them in there frozen or do you warm them up?

    Reply
    • Mary says

      August 27, 2013 at 2:46 pm

      Thawed in the fridge over night, still cool in the lunch box. My kids said they turned out great!

      Reply
  3. mary catherine martin says

    August 13, 2016 at 3:38 pm

    In between the oven & the baggies, what’s the process? Very excited to add this to our lunchbox menu πŸ™‚

    Reply
    • Mary says

      September 4, 2016 at 12:20 pm

      I just let them cool, then put them in the baggies! You could flash freeze them for a few hours and then put them in baggies … lots of ways of doing this, but don’t overthink it. It really is just putting them in baggies. πŸ™‚

      Reply
  4. Barbara Smith says

    March 16, 2017 at 8:13 am

    so they eat the pizza cold?

    Reply
    • Mary says

      April 4, 2017 at 10:34 pm

      It is warm-ish by lunch time, but yes. They don’t seem to mind at all.

      Reply
      • Heather says

        August 28, 2022 at 12:07 pm

        Pizza lunchables are cold so kids don’t really care lol

        Reply
  5. Jess says

    August 5, 2018 at 7:35 pm

    I’m stocking the freezer this month in anticipation of Back to School in September! This is exactly what I was looking for! 1 question – do you mix the dough, let it rise as a whole for an hour (as directed in the linked recipe), then divide & let them rise again for the 10 min period OR do you mix, divide & let the mini doughs rise for an hour?
    Thanks & looking forward to making these soon!

    Reply
    • Mary says

      August 22, 2018 at 10:29 pm

      I rise the first time in the dough ball, and then again when they are sectioned off into little pizzas. That portion of the rising can happen before/during/after the toppings are added, but before they are baked.

      Reply

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