Puff Pastry Pizza Poppers | Crispy One-Bite Party Pizza | Food Wishes

Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with puff pastry pizza poppers.

That's right, puff pastry makes a terrible crust for pizza. If you actually try to make something that looks like a pizza, right, that's going to be the recipe for soggy, greasy disappointment. But by using a very simple French technique I'm about to show you, we can make a miniature version where every bite is crispy, flaky, pizza flavored perfection. And to get started, we need some frozen puff pastry dough.

And I'm using that one that comes in four frozen panels that we have to unfold and break apart. And yes, as usual,

we'll work with this stuff as close to frozen as possible. And no matter what brand you use or what size or shape it comes, I like to lay it out on parchment paper so we don't have to use any additional flour on the surface.

And once we have that laid out, we will grab the key to the whole operation, which are some round cookie cutters.

Right, this technique is very simple and easy, but you do need a set of these to make it work. And what we'll do is press that partially frozen pastry out nice and flat. And we'll take the larger of our two cutters, and we'll start punching some circles out. And for me, the ideal size for this first circle is going to be about 2 and 1/4 to 2 and 1/2 in, which I think gives us a perfect size portion. But this technique will work no matter what size you make them.