Fun, yet healthy, pizza cups are perfect for a kid's cooking party
Prep Time1 hourhr30 minutesmins
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Course: Appetizer, Dinner, Lunch, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: kids party ideas
Servings: 12pizza cups
Equipment
Oven
Muffin Tin
Foil lined muffin liners (foil lined works better since they are a bit greasy)
Ingredients
1 ½cAlmond flour
½cupFlaxmeal
½cMashed sweet potatoalready cooked
½cTapioca Starch
½tSalt
½tGarlic powder
1TCoconut oilmelted
Filling
1cCrushed tomatoes
1tBalsamic vinegar
1tOregano
¼tOnion powder
Mozzarella cheeseAlmond milk cheese or cashew cheese may be used
PepperoniChoose a clean brand without MSG or Red Dye
Mushrooms, Onions, Sweet Bell PeppersOptional toppings
Instructions
Roast the sweet potato in advance.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Wash the potato well and pat dry. Poke holes all around each potato using a fork. Wrap the sweet potato in aluminum foil and roast in the oven for 1 hour at 425. (This step can be done the day before.) Once roasted, store in the refrigerator.
Now to make the pizza cups. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Spray your muffin tin with avocado oil, or use tin foil muffin liners.
Scoop out cooked sweet potato, measure 1⁄2 c.
In a bowl sift together almond flour, tapioca flour, flaxmeal, salt, and garlic powder. Stir in the mashed sweet potato and coconut oil. Mix everything until it all comes together to form a sticky dough.
Add about 1 Tablespoon of dough to each muffin cup. If the spoon sticks to the dough, spray the back of the spoon with avocado oil spray and spread the dough into the bottom of the pizza cup, spreading some dough up the sides.
Par-bake your crusts for 10-13 minutes. The crust will not be completely done but if they still look like raw dough then put them back in for a few minutes.
While the crusts are baking, make your pizza sauce by combining the crushed tomatoes with the balsamic vinegar, oregano, and onion powder.
Chop your toppings. You may want to cut your pepperoni since we are making pizza cups, so cut your toppings into small pieces.
Remove from oven and add 1 Tablespoon of pizza sauce, veggies, pepperoni and cheese.
Put them back in the oven for another 10-13 minutes.
Notes
Important! Read labels and find a clean pepperoni. The best I have found is Whole Foods 365 brand, which is free of MSG, red food dye, BHA, BHT.
If you use a prepared pizza sauce, choose organic, in a jar, not a can.
Most pizza sauce has too much sugar in it. This recipe is sweet enough from the sweet potatoes.
Cashew milk cheese can replace mozzarella, I use Myokos. Other alternatives: goat’s milk cheese, cow’s milk feta cheese (if you choose not to be dairy free).
From class, I can tell you the kids like colorful pizzas so they added lots of sweet bell pepper.