Easy Hummus Cups
- PREP 15min
- COOK 10min
- TOTAL 25min
These are such a fun appetizer! You can fill the hummus cups 1 hour in advance. Cover them with plastic wrap and store them in the fridge to prevent the tomatoes, cucumber, and hummus from drying out.
You Will Need
1 (13.8oz) roll Pillsbury Classic Pizza Crust, see tips
1/2 cup hummus, try homemade hummus
1/2 cup diced cucumber
5 cherry tomatoes, quartered
1/8 teaspoon sea salt
Directions
Preheat oven to 400°F (204°C) and lightly spray 20 mini muffin cups with cooking spray. Set aside 20 mini muffin paper liners, as well as pie weights, uncooked rice, or dried beans for baking the pizza cups.
Form pizza dough into a 14-inch by 12-inch rectangle (this doesn’t have to be exact, just close).
Use a 2 ½-inch round cookie cutter to cut out 20 circles of dough. Press each circle of dough into the muffin cups. Use a fork to pierce the bottom of each pizza cup. Three to four pricks with a fork should do it.
Place a muffin liner inside each pizza cup and fill it with pie weights, uncooked rice, or dried beans.
Bake the pizza cups for 8 to 10 minutes or until the edges are light golden brown. Transfer cups to a cooling rack to cool completely.
When cooled, fill each pizza cup with a heaping teaspoon of hummus and top with a few pieces of cucumber and a tomato quarter. Finish with a light sprinkle of salt.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Pizza dough: While homemade pizza dough is delicious, we’ve found that Pillsbury pizza crust works best for pizza cups. Many doughs, like our homemade dough, puff up in the oven, making it hard to get a deep cup for your hummus. If you want to try your favorite store-bought or homemade dough, here’s a trick: press a cupcake liner into each cup and fill it with pie weights, dried beans, or rice. This will keep the dough from puffing up too much. I’ve added this tip to the recipe instructions so everyone has success.
- Rolling the dough: If your pizza dough keeps bouncing back on you as you roll it out. Leave it for 5 to 10 minutes on the counter to rest and come to room temperature, and then try again.
- Nutrition facts provided below are estimates.