Add these pizza mummies to your spooky Halloween menu. Quick to make, they’re a delightful and fun snack that kids will love!
How adorable are these pizza mummies?! I am obsessed with how the mummies turned out and the creepy-crawly olive spiders – too cute. They are such a fun bite-sized recipe to make for Halloween. These spooky handheld pizzas are made with pizza dough, pizza sauce, plus whatever veggies or meat fillings you like! Kids love them, and they’re really good for any age.
I am all about easy savoury snacks, so you should know that if I am making it, you can make these too! The combination of pizza sauce, salami, and cheese is beyond in these. I cannot wait for you to try them too!
Ingredients you’ll need
You will need just 7 key ingredients to make these fun pizza mummies recipe.
- Pizza Dough: I used a good-quality store-bought dough
- Pizza sauce: Use your favourite brand of pizza sauce to spread on the bread before adding the toppings. Marinara sauce will also work well if you have that to hand.
- Cheese: Shredded mozzarella cheese is laid on top of the pizza sauce, and gives you those delicious cheese pulls when you take a bite.
- Meat: You can add cooked sausage meat, salami, pepperoni or ham to make these mini pizzas extra filling. Or omit it if you want to make this recipe vegetarian.
- Veggies: Feel free to get creative here, I used finely diced red bell pepper (capsicum), and baby spinach in mine. See more ideas below.
- Green olives: Sliced green olives are used to make olive spiders!
- Candy eyeballs: We finish our Halloween pizza mummies with eyeballs for that spooky touch!
Complete list of ingredients and amounts is located on the recipe card below.
How to make mummy pizzas
Prepare pizza dough: Cut and roll the pizza dough into 8 rectangles. Slice both sides horizontally to make little strips.
Add toppings: Spread pizza sauce in the centre of each rectangle. Top with mozzarella cheese, salami, baby spinach, and capsicum, leaving the strips plain.
Create mummy shape: Pull the strips over to each side, gently pressing to create an X pattern, resembling a mummy’s bandages.
Bake: Spray the tops with olive oil and bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes or until the dough is lightly golden.
Make spiders: To make the spiders, cut an olive in half to create the “body” and slice the remaining olive across to make the “legs.”
Assemble: Place the pizza mummies on a plate, dust with flour (for a more mummy-like appearance), and top with edible eyeballs for the eyes. Assemble the olive “spiders” around the mummies for a spooky effect.
Serve your pizza mummies and spiders with extra pizza sauce on the side for dipping.
Tips and tricks
- Change up the veggies: This recipe is a great way to sneak in more vegetables for kids especially since they have a fun design and yummy pizza taste. But you can also try eggplant, grated zucchini, sun-dried tomatoes, red onion, mushrooms, olives, or even pineapple would make great additions too!
- Don’t go too crazy on the filling. You down want to over pack the filling, otherwise the criss cross will be hard to stick down.
- Get your kids to help! These Mummy pizzas are so fun and easy to make, and younger kids will love to help you make them. This is a great recipe to get your kids into the kitchen and have fun!
- Heat treat your flour: Bake 3 tablespoons of flour on a baking sheet at 350°F/ 180°C for 7- 10 minutes or until the flour reaches 160°F/ 70°C. Use a mini sift to dust on top of the cooked pizzas.
How to store
Fridge: These delicious pizza mummies will keep well in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Freezer: Place the pizzas in a freezer-safe bag or airtight container and store them for up to 3 months. You can reheat them from frozen in the oven or in a microwave until heated through.
Recipe FAQ
This mummy pizza recipe is best served as soon as it’s made, so the cheese filling is nice and melty. You can prep them an hour or so before you want to bake them, but don’t make them too far ahead of time or the dough may get a little soggy.
If you follow a dairy-free or plant based diet, then vegan friendly mozzarella cheese and plant based pepperoni can be used.
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If you try this pizza mummies recipe or have a question, please let me know! Leave a comment and rate it below. I love to hear what you think, or any changes you make.
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Pizza Mummies
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: Makes 8
- Category: Halloween
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Description
Add these pizza mummies to your spooky halloween menu. Quick to make, they’re a delightful and fun snack that kids will love!
Ingredients
- 500g store-bought pizza dough
- 8 heaped teaspoons pizza sauce
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup salami, chopped
- 1/4 cup baby spinach, chopped
- 1/2 cup diced red capsicum (bell pepper)
- Olive oil spray
- 16 spooky eyes
- 8–10 green olives
- Heat treated flour, to dust*
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.and line a large baking sheet with baking paper.
- Cut and roll the pizza dough into 8 rectangles. Slice both sides horizontally to make little strips.
- Spread pizza sauce in the centre of each rectangle. Top with mozzarella cheese, salami, baby spinach, and capsicum, leaving the strips plain.
- Pull the strips over to each side, gently pressing to create an X pattern, resembling a mummy’s bandages.
- Spray the tops with olive oil and bake for15-20 minutes or until the dough is lightly golden.
- To make the spiders, cut an olive in half to create the “body” and slice the remaining olive across to make the “legs.”
- Place the pizza mummies on a plate, dust with flour (for a more mummy-like appearance), and top with edible eyeballs for the eyes. Assemble the olive “spiders” around the mummies for a spooky effect.
- Serve your halloween pizza mummies and spiders with extra pizza sauce on the side for dipping.
Notes
- Heat-treat your flour by baking 3 tablespoons at 350F/ 180C for 7-10 minutes until it reach 160F/ 70C.*
- Store pizzas in the fridge for up to 3 days. Freeze in a freezer safe bag or container for 3 months.
- Reheat from frozen in the oven or microwave.
- Other filling ideas: Cooked sausag, eggplant, zucchini, sun-dried tomatoes, red onion, mushrooms, olives or pineapple.
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