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This all starts with a great pizza dough. Any dough will work, even the canned variety. You can purchase it or make your own. If you make your own I would totally recommend one of the following recipes... Ultimate Pizza Dough or Basic Pizza Dough.
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Allow your dough to rise to about double in size. This will take different amounts of time based on the dough. If you use a can pizza dough, well there is no rising needed. Therefore, you can skip this step.
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Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
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Once you have a dough that is risen, you need to roll it out into a rectangle. Make it as big and uniform in thickness as you can. I would recommend doing this on a piece of parchment or wax paper, this will help you form it later.
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Once you have the dough rolled out, uniformly place the pepperoni all over it. I did it evenly spaced, however you can add as much or as little as you want.
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Season the roll with a little garlic powder and a sprinkle of dried basil. Then cover evenly with the mozzarella cheese. Make sure not to add too much cheese. If you add too much, you will have a crazy cheese lava flow all over your oven.
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Starting on the long edge, start to roll up the dough like you would if you were making a jelly roll. Slowly roll the edge over and continue to roll as tightly as you can.
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When you reach the end, you have successfully made a nice looking pizza roll.
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Place the pepperoni roll into a preheated 400 degree oven and cook for 20-25 minutes, or until the roll is evenly browned and a hint of cheese is oozing out the end.
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Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes.
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Then slice the pizza roll into 1/2 inch thick pinwheels. I used a sharp chefs knife and then switched to a nice bread knife. Both worked good, but I think that the bread knife worked better!
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Arrange onto a platter and serve with cups of warm pizza sauce or warm marinara sauce.