Pepperoni Pizza Cake
By
Shawn Syphus
Updated Apr 29, 2021
Take your pizza night to new heights with this triple-decker pie everyone will rave about.
More About This Recipe
- You might consider yourself somewhat of an expert when it comes to pizza pies. You might even have made pizza pies at home, mastering crusts both thick and thin. But we’re not here to talk about pizza pies—we’re here to talk about pizza CAKE. Imagine a trio of pepperoni pizzas. Nice, right? Now imagine them stacked on top of each other, wrapped inside pizza and topped with even more pizza. That’s our celebrated pizza cake recipe, and not to brag, but it’s kind of a big deal. Maybe you recognize it from BuzzFeed, where it rocketed to fame in 2014. Or perhaps you found out about it when Questlove (you might know him from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) tweeted about it. But no matter how you arrived on this recipe page, what matters is that you’re here—and your life is about to change for the better.
Pepperoni Pizza Cake
- Prep Time 40 min
- Total 1 hr 10 min
- Ingredients 5
- Servings 6
Ingredients
- 2 cans (13.8 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Classic Crust Pizza Crust
- 1 1/2 cups Muir Glen™ organic pizza sauce (from 15-oz can)
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (12 oz)
- 1 cup sliced pepperoni
- 1 tablespoon butter, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Lightly spray large cookie sheet with cooking spray or drizzle with olive oil.
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Step2Measure diameter of tall-sided ovenproof pan. (Pan used was 6-inch in diameter with 4-inch high side.) Unroll 1 can of dough onto work surface; press out into thin layer. Cut out 3 (6-inch) rounds; place on cookie sheet. Bake 8 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack; cool.
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Step3Unroll remaining can of dough; cut 2 additional (6-inch) rounds from long edge of dough, leaving opposite side untouched. Place rounds on cooled cookie sheet. Bake 8 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet; cool.
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Step4Meanwhile, line pan with cooking parchment paper so that ends of paper stick up and out of pan. Cut long strip of dough at least 1/2 inch wider than height of pan. Carefully drape long strip of dough around inside edge of pan to line, leaving 1/2 inch hanging over outside edge of pan and bottom of pan open. Pinch seam to seal.
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Step5Carefully place 1 partially baked crust round in bottom of pan. Spread pizza sauce over crust; top with pepperoni slices and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese (when cheese melts, crust above will stick to it). Repeat to make 3 more layers. For top layer, place last crust over cheese; sprinkle with remaining cheese and arrange remaining pepperoni on top.
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Step6Fold overhanging dough over top layer of pizza cake to make a raised crust edge.
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Step7Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until dough around pizza cake is fully cooked. (To test, carefully pull up parchment paper to raise pizza cake out of pan.) Once completely baked, cool in pan 5 minutes. Remove pizza cake from pan; brush crust with butter. Use sharp knife to cut slices like you would a cake.
Nutrition
620
Calories
25g
Total Fat
28g
Protein
72g
Total Carbohydrate
12g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 620
- Calories from Fat
- 220
- Total Fat
- 25g
- 38%
- Saturated Fat
- 10g
- 50%
- Trans Fat
- 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 55mg
- 18%
- Sodium
- 1700mg
- 71%
- Potassium
- 120mg
- 3%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 72g
- 24%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 8%
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 28g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 20%
- 20%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 40%
- 40%
- Iron
- 25%
- 25%
Exchanges:
2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 1 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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