If you’re on a weight loss journey, you’ve more than likely cut out pizza night. With these pizza muffins, you can enjoy your favorite pizza flavors without all the fattening calories. Each mini muffin is loaded with pepperoni and Italian seasoning to give you the classic pizza flavor we all love.
Pizza muffins are perfect for snacks, lunches, picnics, or appetizers. With only 1 carb per muffin, they work great for any low carb or diabetic diet. There are no guilty feelings hanging around these tasty treats, just 2 points each, so go ahead and enjoy a few!
Three reasons why you need to make this recipe!
One mini muffin is only 33 calories.
Pizza and muffins aren’t known as low calorie foods, but this combo is perfect for any low calorie needs. One pizza muffin is 33 calories – so you can have three and still be under 100 calories for a snack.
These are perfect for kids’ school lunches.
Although the school pizza is addicting, it’s definitely not the healthiest option for your littles. Pack them these mini muffins for lunch instead, and you’ll feel good about what they’re eating. They’ll love the bite size pizza muffins!
It’s great for game day appetizers.
Game day is all about the appetizers, and more often than not, the food is filled with calories and fat. Make these for your next Superbowl get together, and you’ll be able to stick to your health goals and enjoy the party.
Ingredients you need to make Pizza Muffins:
- 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp garlic salt
- 1 tsp Italian seasoning
- 3/4 cup 1 % milk
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese
- 1/3 cup reduced fat shredded mozzarella
- 1/4 cup shredded asiago cheese
- 3 slices cooked Oscar Mayer center cut bacon (or you can use turkey bacon or bacon crumble usually found in the salad dressing aisle)
- 20 small slices pepperoni (56g)
How to make Pizza Muffins (step by step):
- Preheat the oven to 375F and spray a mini muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and milk. Then in a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder, garlic, and Italian seasoning together. Add the egg and milk mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Stir in all of the cheeses.
- Cut the pepperoni into small pieces and crumble the cooked bacon slices. Mix them both into the batter.
- Divide the batter over the 24 mini muffin tin, and sprinkle with more Italian seasoning.
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Carefully remove from the tin using a knife around the edges. Serve warm with some marinara sauce or pizza sauce for dipping.
Makes 24 mini muffins. Nutrition info per muffin: Calories 33, Fat 2 g, Saturated fat .92 g, Carbs 1g, Fiber 0 g, Sugars .4 g, Sodium 112 mg, Protein 2 g.
WW Points
- All purpose flour 10 points
- Baking powder 0 points
- Garlic salt 0 points
- Italian seasoning 0 points
- 1% milk 3 points
- Egg 0 points
- Finely grated parmesan cheese 3 points
- Reduced fat shredded mozzarella 3 points
- Shredded asiago cheese 3 points
- Oscar Mayer center cut bacon 3 points
- Pepperoni 11 points
2 points per mini muffin based on the WW app recipe creator.
If you’re using an older version of WW, check out these points below.
1SP blue, green & purple
1PP
Different ways to change up this recipe:
- This is the best muffin recipe to hide veggies in. With all of the cheese and the spicy pepperoni, you’re not going to taste the veggies if you use bland ones like zucchini, cauliflower, or yellow squash. Make sure to shred the veggies and squeeze any water out with paper towels before adding to the muffin batter.
- If you need to omit the egg, increase the milk to 1 cup and increase the baking soda to 1.5 teaspoons.
- Use ground turkey spiced with dried sage if you don’t like pepperoni. It will make it taste like turkey sausage pizza muffins.
- A great addition to this recipe is chopped fresh basil, roasted garlic, black olives, or even green olives. Anything that you like on your pizza!
- Use turkey bacon and/or turkey pepperoni to lower the points – although these already are 2 points per muffin. It doesn’t get much lower than that!
Tips and Tricks for Making Pizza Muffins:
- Like most muffins, these freeze very well. Just make sure they are all the way cooled before wrapping and storing them in the freezer.
- When looking for a marinara sauce or pizza sauce to use for dipping, find a “no sugar added” sauce. Prego makes a great one. You don’t need the extra sugar in regular pizza sauce. It will save you calories and it still tastes great.
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Pizza Muffins
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp garlic salt’
- 1 tsp italian seasoning
- 3/4 cup milk, I used 1%
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp finely grated parmesan cheese
- 1/3 cup reduced fat shredded mozzarella
- 1/4 cup shredded asiago cheese
- 3 slices cooked low point bacon, Oscar Mayer center cut
- 20 small slices pepperoni, 56g
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F and spray a mini muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and milk. Then in a separate bowl mix the flour, baking powder, garlic, and Italian seasoning together. Add the egg and milk mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Stir in all of the cheeses.
- Cut the pepperoni into small pieces and crumble the cooked bacon slices. Mix them both into the batter.
- Divide the batter over the 24 mini muffin tin, and sprinkle with more Italian seasoning.
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Carefully remove from the tin using a knife around the edges. Serve warm with some marinara sauce or pizza sauce for dipping.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Those look delish!
Thanks, they were so yummy! 🙂
Could these be made with cauliflower dough?
I am really not sure sorry, I have never used cauliflower dough, I am sure you could try
Could these be frozen…for snacking later?
Hi Jen, yes they will freeze well 🙂
How many pepperonis? I can’t see where it says..?
Last one in ingredients list, 20 small pepperoni
Can you use almond flour instead?