Ingredients
Scale
- 12 Mini pizza crusts or split English muffins
- 1 cup Pizza sauce or marinara
- 12 Slices of white mozzarella cheese (not shredded)
- 1 can Pitted black olives (sliced into small rounds for eyes)
- Optional: Dried oregano or Italian seasoning
- Optional: Mini pepperoni for extra toppings under the “ghosts”
Instructions
- Preparation: Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper to prevent sticking and make cleanup a breeze. Arrange your mini pizza crusts or English muffin halves on the sheet, making sure they aren’t overlapping so the edges get crispy.
- Ghostly Assembly: Spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce onto each crust. Take your mozzarella slices and use a ghost-shaped cookie cutter to punch out shapes. If you don’t have a cutter, use a small paring knife to free-hand simple wavy shapes. Place one cheese “ghost” in the center of each sauced crust. If you want extra toppings like pepperoni, hide them underneath the cheese ghost so he stays the star of the show.
- Baking: Slide the baking sheet into the oven. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Watch closely—you want the cheese to just begin to melt and soften into a ghostly shape, but you don’t want it to brown or lose its silhouette. The crust should be toasted and the sauce bubbling.
- Adding the Eyes: Remove the pizzas from the oven. Immediately place two small pieces of sliced black olives onto the upper portion of each cheese ghost to create the eyes. The residual heat from the cheese will help the olives stick in place. Serve immediately while warm and spooky!
- Cook Time: 15 minutes