About
When breakfast rolls around, you look forward to a filling start to your day with Dutch Oven Breakfast Pinwheels! These really are the perfect solution for your on-the-go lifestyle when you're on a roll! Pizza dough is topped with savory sausage and sharp cheddar cheese. Then it's rolled like a champ and cut into hand-held-sized magical pinwheels of love! Baked to soft, flaky, fabulously-filled breakfast greatness, Dutch Oven Breakfast Pinwheels roll a couple of your favorites together. So, let's get rollin'!
Ingredients
- 2 (13.8-ounce) cans pizza crust, divided
- 1 pound ground sausage
- 1 (16-ounce) package cheddar cheese, shredded
- maple syrup, optional, to taste, for serving
Directions
Step 1 -Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2 -Line a 7-quart Dutch oven with heavy aluminum foil.
Step 3 -On a flat surface, roll out 1 of the pizza crusts and, using a 3-inch round cookie cutter, cut it into 12 rounds. Set the rounds aside.
Step 4 -In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add the sausage and cook, while crumbling, until the sausage is no longer pink, about 5-7 minutes.
Step 5 -Drain the sausage on a paper towel and discard the excess grease from the skillet.
Step 6 -On a clean, flat surface, roll out the remaining pizza crust.
Step 7 -Evenly layer the sausage and the cheddar cheese on the rolled-out pizza crust.
Step 8 -Starting with one of the long sides, roll the pizza crust up like a jelly roll and pinch the seam to enclose the roll.
Step 9 -With a sharp knife, evenly cut the filled roll into 12 pinwheels.
Step 10 -Add one of the reserved dough rounds to each of the filled pinwheels, then place the pinwheels in a single layer on the prepared foil in the Dutch oven with the dough-covered-side down to keep the filling from coming out.
Step 11 -Bake the pinwheels until golden-brown, about 30 minutes. Make sure to check on them often during the last 5 minutes of baking to avoid overcooking them.
Step 12 -Serve with the maple syrup.
