Italian Sub Pinwheels
Amazing warm pinwheel appetizer to help make any party a success. These pinwheels are easily made with ham, salami, pepperoni, herbs, and mozzarella cheese all rolled into pizza dough and baked to golden perfection. In 30 minutes, you will be delighting the guests with this tasty treat.
Pinwheel
Pinwheels are my favorite and the most crowd-pleasing appetizer to bring to a party. Whether I’m making cold tortilla pinwheels or hot pizza pinwheels, they are always the first ones to go.
As delicious as cream cheese or meat tortilla pinwheels are, I prefer hot pizza pinwheels. First of all, you have the gooey, melted cheese and that alone makes everything better.
Second of all, pizza pinwheels are pretty much bite-sized pizza and everyone loves pizza.
If you like pizza and hot pinwheels, you will definitely enjoy these Italian Sub Pinwheels. A classic combination of salami, ham, pepperoni, and mozzarella cheese is perfect rolled and baked in classic pizza dough.
Serve it with marinara sauce for dipping or all on its own, either way it will be a huge hit.
How to make pinwheels:
To make it easy, I usually get already prepared pizza dough. You can choose a can of classic pizza crust, like the Pillsbury one, or get it fresh from the deli section.
(Note: deli fresh pizza crust dough usually comes as 1 lb and will make a couple more pinwheels, so you will need to have a little more filling on hand.)
Preheat oven to 400° and grease a 12-cup muffin pan.
Take pizza dough out onto a lightly greased surface. You can use silicone baking mat to easily prepare the pinwheels.
Gently stretch or roll out the dough into a rectangle that’s about 12×15 inches. (Canned dough already comes as a rectangle)
Combine oil, vinegar, parsley, oregano, salt, and crushed red pepper flakes in a small bowl and whisk together. Brush pizza dough surface with the mixture leaving about 1/2 inch on one long side un-brushes. That will be the seal edge.
Layer ham, salami, and pepperoni in one even layer, covering the surface of the dough but still leaving that one 1/2 inch edge for sealing.
Spread mozzarella over the top of meat, evenly.
Roll everything together on the long side starting with the covered edge and ending with the edge that was left uncovered. Gently press on the roll all over and make sure the edge is sealed well. Place the roll seam down.
Cut across the roll with a serrated knife to create pinwheels that are about an inch thick.
Place each pinwheel into a muffin cup, cut side up.
Bake for 18-20 minutes, until golden brown.
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Italian Sub Pinwheels
Ingredients
- 13.8 oz classic pizza crust dough
- 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 2 tsp dry oregano
- 2 tbsp dry parsley
- 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes more if you wish
- pinch salt
- .25 lb ham thinly sliced
- .25 lb salami thinly sliced
- .25 lb pepperoni thinly sliced
- 1 1/4 cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400° and grease a 12-cup muffin pan.
- Take pizza dough out onto a lightly greased surface. (You can use silicone baking mat to easily prepare the pinwheels.)
- Gently stretch or roll out the dough into a rectangle that’s about 12×15 inches. (Canned dough already comes as a rectangle.)
- Combine oil, vinegar, parsley, oregano, salt, and crushed red pepper flakes in a small bowl and whisk together. Brush pizza dough surface with the mixture leaving about 1/2 inch on one long edge un-brushes. That will be the seal edge.
- Layer ham, salami, and pepperoni in one even layer, covering the surface of the dough but still leaving that one 1/2 inch edge for sealing.
- Spread mozzarella over the top of meat, evenly.
- Roll everything together on the long side starting with the covered edge and ending with the edge that was left uncovered. Gently press on the roll all over and make sure the edge is sealed well. Place the roll seam down.
- Cut across the roll with a serrated knife to create pinwheels that are about an inch thick.
- Place each pinwheel into a muffin cup, cut side up.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes, until golden brown.
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Can I make these ahead and warm up? I need something for an rv potluck and we have a microwave (it does bake, air fry etc) thank you
How did you keep the cheese from meting and oozing out?
Some of the cheese is just going to ooze out during baking since melted cheese becomes liquid-like at high temperatures. As it cools, it will solidify again, making it easier to enjoy. To minimize the mess, you can line the pan with parchment paper liners.
The people I served this to absolutely loved them!! They raved and raved. I did use deli fresh pizza dough rolled quite thin, and I did need to reduce the baking time to about 15-16 minutes. Absolutely delish!
I am so happy they liked it, Lisa!
These look easy and delicious, and would be great for a party! Thanks!
Thanks, Roland!
I’ve been searching for a recipe that would taste like a pizza parlor I lived next to. These are perfect. I made one half ham, pepperoni and mozzarella and the other half pepperoni and mozzarella because my daughter doesn’t like ham. They were delicious! Thank you.
Hi, Lisa! Thanks for your sweet comment! I am so glad you liked them 🙂
This definitely would be a crowd pleaser! Thanks for sharing!