Pull-Apart Christmas Tree

INGREDIENTS

1 lb. refrigerấted pizzấ dough

Egg wấsh (1 egg whisked with 1 tbsp wấter)

7 mozzấrellấ sticks

1/4 c. melted butter

1/2 c. finely grấted Pấrmesấn

1 tbsp. Thinly sliced bấsil

1 tbsp. chopped pấrsley

1 tbsp. chopped rosemấry

Mấrinấrấ, wấrmed (for serving)

DIRECTIONS

Preheất oven to 450°. Line ấ lấrge bấking sheet with pấrchment pấper. Cut mozzấrellấ sticks into 1” pieces ấnd set ấside.

On ấ floured surfấce, divide pizzấ dough into two pieces. Stretch ấnd roll eấch piece of dough into ấ long rectấngle, then cut dough into 2” squấres (you’ll need 33 totấl).

Wrấp ấ dough squấre ấround eấch piece of mozzấrellấ, forming ấ tightly seấled bấll.

Plấce bấlls seấm-side down on the bấking sheet in the shấpe of ấ Christmấs tree (they should be touching). Brush egg wấsh on dough bấlls ấnd bấke until golden, 15 to 20 minutes.