Pizza Roll Ups Recipe

Pizza roll ups with frozen bread dough recipe is such a fun and easy dinner idea!! You can use ready made refrigerated biscuits for this too to make stromboli in your electric or pellet grill this week.

How to Make Pizza Roll Ups

Obsessed with cheesy meals, beyond a few quick air fryer pizza rolls for lunch, I bet you’re going to love this too. You can use ready made refrigerated dough or frozen Rhodes bread which is what we did.

We started this journey creating a lot of electric smoker recipes. Those will work too if you’re looking for more ideas. You can bookmark this post above because we add more and more as the years go on.

without Pizza Stone

You can use the same pan as you would in the oven to make this, no expensive pizza stone needed for this one. As far as cheese goes, it is up to you. I thought I had mozzarella at home but I didn’t. Instead I had a bag of our favorite Mexican cheese blend which actually turned out to taste amazing. I like a mix of cheddar on my pies anyway.

Ingredients

1. Frozen dough, loaf of bread defrosted for 2 hours
2. Pepperoni is a fave
3. Cheese, we use a Mexican blend
4. Butter or olive oil to moisten the dough
5. Italian seasoning or other seasonings
6. Minced garlic we love for flavor
7. Garlic salt is great too
8. Baking sheet lined with parchment paper
9. Rolling pin to flatten

Substitutions

There are a few choices when it comes to the dough. I personally recommend you get Rhodes bread loaves and use one, it’s the perfect size. Frozen rolls work too but you have to defrost almost the whole back and then roll them all together before rolling flat.

Alternatively you could make homemade pizza dough. A baking sheet with foil on top is what we used to set it on. You could serve this as dinner, or slice it on a tray as one of our favorite Traeger appetizers.

Aside from the dough being pre-made it was pretty homemade. 😉 I don’t know if I’d recommend things like mushrooms, but sliced olives would be a great add in with your pepperoni or Canadian bacon.

Can you smoke pizza roll ups?

YES! If you make our homemade pizza roll up it will take 35 minutes set at 350 F. You could load it up with more pepperoni than this. I like more cheese than meat but everyone is different.

You could easily make this without meat and make a sort of cheesy smoked bread too! Serve it as a side dish for a 4th of July or Halloween party and it would be a hit. You could easily put 2 on the baking sheet at a time too.

Pizza Roll Up with Refrigerated Pizza Dough Recipe

• If you’re using frozen loaf of bread, set on a piece of parchment paper and let it defrost for 2 hours.
• Put dough on non stick cutting board and roll out into a very large rectangle the same thickness all the way across. Transfer to parchment paper and set on baking sheet.
• Melt your butter and then add the garlic, garlic salt and seasonings together.
• Brush on to your dough with your cheese and toppings on top of that with a bit of area without anything on the edges so it doesn’t leak out.
• Roll up on starting from one end to the other tightly with the open end on the bottom so it doesn’t unravel.

Spray underside of aluminum foil and tent it with some room over the top of your roll. Allow to rest and rise a bit for 30 minutes on your counter.

Preheat your smoker now to 350 degrees F. Put baking sheet on smoker grates. Cook on Traeger smoker for 20 minutes, then remove foil and continue cooking for 15 minutes until top is lightly golden brown. Remove and allow to rest on counter for a few minutes before slicing.

in the Oven

Alternatively if you want to bake this the old fashioned way, preheat your oven to 425 F. and instead of baking it whole and then slicing you will slice first. Place each piece on a greased baking sheet and bake for 12-14 minutes until golden brown on top and the cheese is melty ooey gooey!

Dip pieces into spaghetti sauce and enjoy. If you have leftovers we share how to reheat pizza in air fryer here for you too.

Other frozen dough recipes you’ll love

Slice this same loaf defrosted into strips and make pull apart pigs in a blanket too. I have used parchment paper instead of foil underneath but it does leave the bottom a bit browner than I’d like.

You can use this same bread loaf and make this cinnamon bread wreath or homemade air fryer hot pocket stuffed with the same ingredients which are fun as after school snacks.

In the Spring we have made this Easter egg bread recipe with this same loaf, braided with sprinkles. Looks like bakery style but really easy to do without yeast.