Pizza Muffins

While surfing pinterest today, I discovered a recipe where you use bisquick, chicken and veggies, to make your own mini chicken pot pies. (Just and FYI, it is REALLY hard to think of this as chicken pot pie, as here, where I live, chicken pot pie is known as chicken, veggies, and homemade noodles, in a thick gravy type soup, cooked in a pot. Hence, chicken POT pie. I have no idea why you wouldn't just call it chicken pie; but I digress.) I found this to be an extremely awesome idea, and decided right away, I was doing it. The website Betty Crocker, tells you a bunch of other things you can do, too, using the bisquick, and a  muffin pan. One of them is using sauce and cheese to make pizza ones. Well, wouldn't you know, homemade pizza is what I had on the menu for tonight. I just couldn't wait to try it.

But wait... I don't have bisquick. I knew that. Doh! I did think that I had some baking mix, though, that I thought I would use instead. Wroooongo. Oops. I guess it's time to get to the grocery store. Boo. I was really looking forward to trying this...................................................................................................... *Ding!* <--- that was the sound of the light-bulb going off inside my head. (Yeah, it took a little while.)

Now, I know I'm not alone in this; You go grocery shopping, and while in the refrigerated cookie dough isle (hush) you decide you want to buy some biscuits, crescent rolls, pie crusts, because you have ever intention of making these to go along with meals. You get home and make up some crescent rolls to eat with dinner, that night. Then, you throw the rest of them in one of your refrigerator drawers, never to be heard from again. Well... maybe I am alone in this. Please tell me I'm not?

I've side tracked. Let me get back to my point... I had some buttermilk biscuits in the fridge that were in desperate need to be used. I was so happy I remembered them, because I HATE to waste anything. *Penny pincher, here.* Guess what. It worked. We got to eat some yummy pizza, it was the easiest pizza I ever made, it bakes up super fast, and I didn't waste any food. That's always a score in my book.

What you'll need:

• Ready to make buttermilk biscuits
• Pizza sauce
• Cheese
• Pam
• Any toppings you'd like
• Any seasonings you'd like

Set your oven to whatever temperature your biscuits tell you to. Mine was 400. Spray muffin tin with your Pam. (Or if you're like me, the generic version of.) Take each biscuit and flatten it like it's a little mini pizza crust and then fit into each muffin tin.

Add your pizza sauce. A 1/2 tablespoon sauce worked perfect for me.

Add your toppings. I chose to use mozzarella and cheddar. I also had a few pepperonis left over from the last time I made pizza, so I used them up, too. I then sprinkled the top with a little Italian seasoning.

Bake, following the directions for your biscuits. I baked mine for 12 minutes.

Now, at this point, I should probably tell you to let them cool for a few minutes, and then pop them out and eat them... but I'm not gonna do that. Because I don't do that. I popped these suckers out right away, sprinkled a little Parmesan cheese on them, and ate them. Mmm mmm mmm.

As an extra special treat, if you happen to be calorie counting like me, I even figured out the calories per "pizza muffin" for you. (Of course these calories are based on what I made them with.) Yoooooooooou're welcome.

The brand biscuit I used was Aldi's brand, buttermilk biscuit. I used part skim mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese, and weis brand pizza sauce. I don't remember the brand of pepperoni, and I'm too lazy to get up and dig the baggie out of the garbage.

Amounts: 1 biscuit, 1/2 tablespoon sauce, 1 tablespoon each, mozzarella and cheddar (This is pushing it. I didn't even use a tablespoon of each) = 100 calories. With pepperoni slice =110. I did not count the Parmesan cheese, because the #'s for the other cheese was over compensated.

Enjoy! (P.S. You're kids will LOVE them.)