Making a Halloween Pizza is easy and fun to do with the help of young hungry goblins or spooky ghoulish adults. With these Halloween pizza ideas everyone gets a chance to make a mini-pizza and personalize it into a Mummy, Jack-O-Lantern, or with Ghosts, and Spiders.
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❤️Why you love this recipe
- Easy to make.
- Fun Halloween pizza ideas for a great party.
- Personalize individual pizzas.
- Kid-friendly Halloween party ideas.
- Can prepare the spooky pizzas ahead of time.
These ideas are simply a springboard to what you can do with the mini-pizzas. Kids will especially love the idea of creating their own pizza.
🛒 Ingredients
This is a very simple recipe to make. These are the ingredients you'll need for the best Halloween Pizzas, ever!
- Store-bought pizza dough. If you'd like to make your own dough, this is the excellent recipe for pizza dough we make weekly.
- Pizza Sauce -- store-bought or you can make our favorite homemade pizza sauce recipe.
- Mozzarella cheese -- freshly grated for the Jack-O-Lantern and Spider Pizzas. Make sure this is NOT processed cheese.
- Mozzarella cheese slices -- this is for the Ghost and Mummy Pizzas. Make sure this is is NOT processed cheese.
- Assorted bell peppers -- orange, green, red.
- Pepperoni
- Black olives
- Green olives
- Any additional toppings your family enjoys for your own creative pizzas!
The exact amounts are in the recipe card below. The amounts will make 4 pizzas, one of each spooky ghoul.
📝 Instructions
These are partial instructions on how to make the Halloween Party Pizzas. The complete instructions are in the recipe card below.
Before starting on any of the spooky Halloween pizzas ideas. Roll out the dough and spread pizza sauce over it.
- Lightly flour the work surface.
- Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces.
- Stretch by hand or light roll dough into a 6-to-8-inch circles until you reach your desired dough thickness.
- Spread 2 Tablespoons of pizza sauce onto the surface of the pizza round.
- Follow the directions for making each spooky Halloween character and then..
- Lightly sprinkle some cornmeal on the pizza peel or the back of a baking sheet. The cornmeal makes it easier to slide the pizza onto the stone.
🎃 Jack-O-Lantern
For each Jack-O-Lantern pizza:
- Sprinkle one-half cup of shredded mozzarella cheese over the pizza round that's been slathered with pizza sauce.
- Cut 3 pieces of pepperoni into triangle shapes and place on the mini-pizzas as the eyes and nose.
- Cut off the top of a bell pepper to form the stem of the Jack-O-Lantern.
- Create the mouth by using a piece of bell pepper cut in a jagged shape.
🕷 Spiders
For each pizza with spiders:
- Sprinkle one-half cup of shredded mozzarella cheese over the pizza sauced dough.
- cut a black olive in half lengthwise to form the body of the spider.
- Slice the second half o the olive across the width in 6 pieces to form the legs.
- Assemble the spider on the pizza and repeat for as many spiders as you would like.
🙀 Ghosts
For the ghost pizza:
- Using a ghost-shaped cookie cutter, but out 6 ghost shapes from the sliced mozzarella cheese.
- Add 3 to the pizza. Save three for adding after the pizza has been cooked. The 3 extra are in the event the cheese spreads too much so you add these on top for definition.
- Use a small round piping tip to cut circle shapes from a lack olive for the eyes.
- Arrange the eyes on the ghosts.
👻 Mummy
For the mummy pizza:
- Add 2 green olives with pimentos intact to the top middle of the pizza sauced covered dough round. This is where you'd like the mummy eyes to be.
- Slice the mozzarella slices into strips and place on the pizza with the sauce showing.
- Cut additional strips to add immediately to the pizza when it comes out of the oven. Some cheese melts faster than others and the mummy may lose the shape of the bandages.
- Place the additional slices on top of the melted ones to define the bandages on the pizza.
Next time try our delicious Roman Style Pizza you dress your own way.
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🔪 Equipment
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You will need the following items to make the Halloween mini pizzas easily.
- Sharp knife -- you'll need this to cut the olives, veggies, and cheese.
- Pizza peel -- this is to easily get your pizza in and out of the oven.
- Oven stone -- We use a stone and a steel. This really gets your pizza crust nicely done.
- Ghost cookie cutter -- it's easy to cut a ghoulish shape with a cutter.
- Wilton tip -- to cut the eyes out.
👩🏻🍳 Tips
Expert tip: It's important that you get mozzarella cheese and NOT the processed cheese. The processed variety will not melt like it should on the Halloween mini pizzas
- Pay attention to the Mummy and Ghost Pizzas to add additional cheese if the design spreads after baking. You can also substitute buffalo mozzarella - it tends to hold its shape better in the oven.
- Halloween night can be very busy for families. Consider making the pizzas in advance and freezing them. Add a few minutes to the baking time.
- In a time crunch solution, purchase frozen mini pizzas and decorate them.
- Halloween party activity -- pizzas would be fun for kids and adults to make themselves. Pre-cut toppings and allow their imaginations to run wild.
- If you don't have a pizza peel, use the back of a cookie sheet to slide the pizzas onto the stone.
- If you don't have a stone - bake the Halloween mini pizzas on the back of a cookie sheet.
If you love the fun of Halloween and fun food ideas, then these super cute Nutter Butter Mummies will be a big hit with kids and grown-ups alike.
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👻 Recipe
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Halloween Pizza
A fun and easy way to celebrate Halloween is to make your own spooky pizzas. Halloween isn't just for kids anymore.
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Servings: 4
Calories: 370kcal
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Ingredients
- 16 ounces pizza dough store-bought or make your own
- 8 Tablespoons pizza sauce
- 1 cup freshly grated mozzarella cheese For Jack-O-Lantern and Spider Pizzas
- Mozzarella cheese slices For Ghost and Mummy Pizzas (not processed cheese)
- Bell Peppers Assorted
- Pepperoni
- Black Olives
- Green Olives
- Any additional toppings your family enjoys for your own creative pizzas.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425℉ and place a pizza stone inside to heat up.
- Lightly flour your work surface and divide the pizza dough into 4-equal pieces.
- Stretch by hand or lightly roll dough into 6-to-8-inch circles until you reach your desired dough thickness.
- Add 2 Tablespoons of pizza sauce to each prepared dough and follow the directions below for each pizza you would like to make.
- Transfer one prepared pizza dough to a pizza peel that has been prepare with flour or cornmeal. This will make transferring to the pizza stone easier.
For the Jack-O-Lantern Pizza
- Sprinkle one-half cup of grated mozzarella cheese over the dough to cover the pizza sauce.
- Next cut 3 pieces of pepperoni into triangle shapes and place on the pizza as the eyes and nose of Jack-O-Lantern.
- Cut off the top of a bell pepper to form the stem of the Jack-O-Lantern.
- Create the mouth by using a piece of bell pepper cut into a jagged shape.
For the Spider Pizza
- Sprinkle one-half cup of grated mozzarella cheese over the dough to cover the sauce.
- Next cut a black olive in half lengthwise to form the body of the spider.
- Cut the second half of the olive across the width in 6 pieces to create legs.
- assemble the spider on the pizza and repeat for as many spiders as you would like.
For the Mummy Pizza
- Add 2 intact green olives with pimentos to the top middle of the pizza dough over the sauce where you would like the mummy eyes to be.
- Next slice mozzarella slices in strips and create a bandage look over the sauce. Leave a bit of space between strips with the sauce showing.
- Cut additional strips to add immediately when the pizza comes out of the oven as some cheese melt faster and ghosts can lose their shape. The additional slices will define the bandages on the pizza.
For the Ghost Pizza
- Using a ghost-shaped cookie, cut 6 ghost shapes from the sliced mozzarella cheese. Add 3 to the pizza. Save three for adding after the pizza has been cooked. This is in the event that the cheese spreads and the fresh cheese will add back the definition.
- For the eyes, use a small round piping tip to cut circle shapes from a black olive. Arrange the eyes on the ghosts.
For All The Pizzas
- Transfer pizzas to the pizza stone and bake for 8 minutes or until cheese is melted and the crust is golden. Serve immediately and enjoy!
Notes
Recipe Success Tips:
- Pay attention to the Mummy and Ghost Pizzas to add additional cheese if the design spreads after baking. You can also substitute buffalo mozzarella that tends to hold its shape better in the oven.
- Halloween night can be very busy for families. Consider making the pizzas in advance and freezing them. Add a few minutes to the baking time.
- Time crunch tip -- You can also decorate mini frozen pizzas in a time crunch.
- These pizzas would be fun for kids to make themselves at a party. Pre-cut toppings and allow their imaginations to run wild!
- You may use the back of cookie sheet to slide off the pizza onto the stone.
- If you don't have a stone, keep the pizzas on the back of the baking sheet.
Nutrition
Calories: 370kcal | Carbohydrates: 56g | Protein: 15g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 1153mg | Potassium: 121mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 319IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 145mg | Iron: 3mg
