Pizza monkey bread

From confessions of a foodie bride

Ingredients

• 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
• 4 Tbsp butter
• 2 lbs pizza dough (I used this recipe because it makes enough for two pizza)
• 6 oz mozzarella cheese, cut into small cubes (you'll need ~48 pieces)
• 48 slices of Turkey pepperoni (from 1 package)
• 2-3 cups marinara sauce, warmed, for serving

Instructions

1. Heat garlic and butter over medium heat just until the garlic begins to brown. Remove from heat and let sit. 
2. Lightly brush the inside of a bundt pan (or other oven-safe dish) with garlic butter.
3. Pull off large marble-sized balls of dough and flatten (~2/3 of an ounce, a kitchen scale makes this very easy). Top with a slice of pepperoni and a cube of mozzarella.

4. Wrap the dough around the pepperoni and cheese, pinching well to seal. 
5. Very lightly brush the pizza ball with garlic butter and place into the bundt pan (I dabbed the pizza balls on a butter-dipped silicon brush to keep butter use low - there will be 1+ Tbsp leftover - and my hands butter free. Buttery hands make it hard to get the pizza balls to seal). 
6. Repeat until all of the dough is used.
7. Cover and let sit for 30 minutes, while preheating the oven to 400.
8. Bake for ~35 minutes, until the top is very brown. 
9. Remove from the oven and let sit for 10 minutes. 
10. Turn out onto a platter and serve with warmed marinara sauce for dipping.

Notes from Jill's Kitchen: I used the Wegman's package of fresh pizza dough, but cut off about 1/3 of it to use the next day for scones. Next time I need to cut off a little bit more so that if it is just Sam Bean and I we don't have leftovers (I don't love pizza leftovers. So sue me.) Other than that it was a fantastic friday night meal!

Update 2/16: This time I counted little pizza balls rather than going on quantity of dough and that seemed to work better.  I think I did around 25 balls and we only had 5 left over. Brilliant! I was also very stingy with the butter the time because it was a bit greasy last time.