These 4-Ingredient Pizza Pockets Might Just Be Better Than the Store-Bought Version

Crescent roll dough makes this four-ingredient recipe irresistible. Kelli Foster/TNS

All it took was a single bite of these cheesy pizza pockets to feel a flood of nostalgia. If Hot Pockets were as much of a staple in your childhood as they were in mine, this four-ingredient recipe will be right up your alley.

These days, I skip the frozen store-bought box for a super-simple version with a few basic ingredients I almost always have on hand. It starts with a tube of flaky crescent roll dough and bakes up with just enough sauce and lots of gooey, melted mozzarella. Here’s how to do it.

The Dough

We tested pizza pockets using a variety of doughs—including regular basic pizza dough, pizza dough in a tube, biscuit dough, and crescent roll dough—and ultimately found that a tube of crescent roll dough is the way to go. It is by far the easiest dough to work with and seal, and it makes for pizza pockets with the most irresistible buttery, flaky bite.

How to Cook Pizza Pockets

Homemade pizza pockets are incredibly easy to make with just four ingredients and about 10 minutes of prep work.