Game Day Pull Apart Pizza
Pizza is a perfect football food. This easy recipe for pull apart pizza uses conveniently packaged ingredients and bakes up in 30 minutes. Your family will devour this pizza before the first quarter is over!
Who doesn’t love pizza? I love this recipe because it assembles quickly and bakes up in short order. My family loves the way the pieces pull apart into perfect serving sizes!
In fact, I usually have to make multiple casserole pans full of this pizza to satisfy my crowd.
You know, in Ohio, we take football seriously. Almost as seriously as they do in Texas. (don’t tell the Texans!)
When the favorite Ohio team is playing, there are few cars on the streets, nobody in the stores, and nearly everybody is in front of the TV or the Radio listening to the game. Â Even my mother is concerned about who wins on Saturday.
(True confession: I’m not a football fan and I’ve discovered that game time is a great time to go grocery shopping… if I’m not invited to a tail gate party, that is!)
I love football food!!
Game Day Pull Apart Pizza Recipe
Ingredients:
1 pkg (12 oz) Dinner Biscuits
20 slices Pepperoni
1/c c Green Olives
1TB minced Garlic
1 c Shredded Mozzarella / Cheddar Cheese
1/2 c Parmesan Cheese
1 TB Italian Spice Mix
Recipe Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Cut the pepperoni slices in half, set aside.
- In a small bowl mix the Parmesan cheese and Italian spices, set aside. In another small bowl mix the garlic and olives.
- Grease an 8×8 inch or 9×9 inch baking dish.
- Open the package of biscuits and separate the biscuits. Cut each biscuit into four pieces.
- Roll each piece of biscuit dough in the spiced Parmesan and begin placing a layer of biscuit in the pan.
- Spread some olive & garlic mixture, pepperoni slices and cheese. Repeat the layers.
- Top with cheese and leftover Parmesan mixture.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes until biscuits are baked through.
Approximate Nutritional Information:
Servings Per Recipe: 4, Amount Per Serving: Calories: 350, Fat: 12g, Cholesterol: 8mg, Sodium: 500mg, Total Carbs: 48g, Protein: 3g.
Make It a Meal:
Serve at the tail gate party with Sloppy Joes. If you’re having a quiet day at home with this dish, add a bowl of soup to fill you up.
Variations:
Add sliced mushrooms, black olives or other favorite pizza toppings. Serve with Ranch dressing. If you’re planning on hosting the big game, double this recipe and bake in a 9×13 pan.
What’s your favorite football food? Who’s your team?
So while you’re watching the game, bake up some of this pull apart pizza to snack on during half time! If you like this recipe, go ahead and share it!
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Hello Noel, You always have the best projects!!!Oh my word…I am making this Pull Apart Pizza this Saturday! Hmmm…Saturday’s mean College Football and Ohio to me can only mean The OSU Buckeyes!! Are you a fan too? Thank you for sharing at the Friday Favorites Link Party! Please join us again to share what you
have been working on this week. Hugs – Christine at Must Love Home
Can a person live in Ohio and not be at least a “somewhat” fan of OSU?! I’ve been to my share of games and tail gate parties!
How fun is this?!?! I love that you don’t have to roll out any pizza dough, you can use biscuits! Seems so easy to throw together and take and bake wherever you are partying! Thanks for sharing with Saucy Saturdays!
Jennifer, this is a great “Last minute get together” sort of dish. I usually have all of these ingredients on hand (and use them in many other recipes) but this is a sure to please the hungry crowd who showed up!! … have I mentioned I raised two teenagers?!
Yummy! I love this idea. When I get full pizzas for events, I always find half eaten slices lying around. This is perfect.
This definitely avoids the partially eaten slice problem. LOL Sounds like you’ve been to my house!!
This is similar to a dish that I make. It’s so easy to make, and what I love is that you can customize it based on your family or guests needs.
Joanna, customization is key when it comes to pleasing a crowd. This is so easy to pull together you could make several pans in different combinations.
This will totally be coming with me to a Packer party this season! Looks easy and delicious!
Oh Yeah! Packer People Prefer Pizza! LOL I couldn’t help myself …
We love pizza….and WOW this looks like a fun way to enjoy it too. This is party perfect, and fun to make as well. Will be giving this a try for sure.
Kids love helping to make this pizza … find a couple you can enlist and you’ll have a blast making it!
Perfect meal for friends gathering, or birthday or any occasion really. Adding it to my list.
You’re right, good for any day, not just game day!
Oh my word this does look so simple and easy. I love the idea!! Definitely perfect for game day or kids pajama party days.. Yum
Veena, I forgot about kid’s pajama parties! (My kids are grown) this would be perfect for that – they can help make it and it bakes up quickly.
Oh, my heavens! What an easy recipe but super delicious! This dish would be good for any occasion. Just say pizza and I’m first in line. The beauty of the recipe is that you can make it to your taste.
LOL @ being first in line … I know that feeling! And we’ve made up this recipe with so many variations – just like real pizza.
This looks AMAZING! My husband would especially love it. So perfect for the fall and game day!
Christine, let me know what he thinks when you try this recipe. Game Day is coming!
I’m not a pizza fan, but I am a cheesy-breadstick-dipped-in-sauce fan, so I think I’d like this!
So, Ashley, this is more like a dippy bread … I think you’ll like it!
I am going to try this recipe very soon, loving it. My football loving crowd will go crazy over this. (Double batch!)
You might want to double the double batch if they’re that much of a crowd!!
I love pizza and I love pull apart breads – this one fits the bill for the perfect way to share with friends during game day!
Kylee, thanks for stopping by. Let me know how your friends like this recipe!
This looks amazing, fun and easy.great dish for our family movie night
Movie night would be a great time to try this dish!!
This is such a fun treat for the family!
Catherine, it is a fun dish … in fact, I sometimes make this for an afternoon snack … my husband eats most of it himself!
Looks an easy and fun recipe for football game. I like this kind of treat for game day. I like that you made with biscuit dough.
Swathi, you really could use any kind of dough … but I like the flavor of the biscuits.
Love the pull apart idea, never tried with pizza, but really looking forward to give it a go!
Let me know how you like it! I’ll bet you love it.