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Mini Pizza Pinwheels

Recipe by LftOvrs
Serves Makes 16–20 pinwheels
Difficulty Easy
Prep 15 min
Cook 15 min

Swirled pizza-style bites with tomato, cheese and optional veggies – fun, freezer-friendly and perfect for lunchboxes.

Mini Pizza Pinwheels are everything children love about pizza, rolled into a swirl that’s easy to hold and snack on.

They’re brilliant for batch cooking: bake a tray, cool, then freeze for quick lunchbox fillers or after-school snacks.

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with parchment.
  2. Unroll the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface, keeping it in a rectangle.
  3. Spread a thin layer of tomato passata over the pastry, leaving a small border at one long edge.
  4. Sprinkle evenly with grated cheese and any finely chopped vegetables, then scatter over the dried herbs.
  5. Roll the pastry up tightly from the long edge into a log, sealing the edge with a little water.
  6. Slice into 1–1.5 cm rounds and lay them flat on the lined baking tray.
  7. Bake for 12–15 minutes until puffed and golden. Cool on a rack.

LftOvrs app tip

Save a note in the LftOvrs app of how many pinwheels a batch makes and how many fit neatly into your child’s lunchbox.

Tag them as both ‘snack’ and ‘lunchbox main’ so you can plan around them in busy weeks.

Why choose organic for this recipe?

For these pinwheels, the most important organic ingredients are the tomatoes, flour and cheese. Tomatoes used for passata and sauces can be heavily sprayed in conventional systems, so organic tomato products help to reduce pesticide residues in concentrated forms.

Organic flour and cheese support farming systems that manage land with fewer synthetic inputs and prioritise animal welfare. Because these snacks can become a regular feature in children’s diets, nudging the main ingredients organic is an easy win.

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