Ingredients
Scale
- 4 English muffins (split in half) or 8 mini pre-made pizza crusts
- 1 cup pizza sauce or marinara
- 8 slices of white mozzarella cheese (not shredded)
- 1 can (approx. 28 oz) high-quality tomato soup
- 1/4 cup heavy cream or sour cream (for the spiderweb garnish)
- 1/4 cup sliced black olives (to make eyes)
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- Optional: Fresh basil for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C). While the oven heats up, take your mozzarella cheese slices and use a ghost-shaped cookie cutter to punch out shapes. If you don’t have a cutter, you can easily use a small paring knife to free-hand cut simple ghost silhouettes. Make sure the ghosts are small enough to fit comfortably on your English muffin halves. Set the scraps aside—you can melt those into the soup later so nothing goes to waste!
- Place your split English muffins or mini crusts on a large baking sheet. Spread about a tablespoon of pizza sauce over each half. Place one cheese ghost in the center of each pizza. Take two small pieces of sliced black olives and place them on the “head” of each ghost to create eyes. Sprinkle a tiny pinch of dried oregano around the ghost (but not on it) to add flavor and a “dirt” look to the graveyard scene.
- Slide the baking sheet into the oven and bake for 8 to 10 minutes. You want the muffin edges to be slightly crisp and the cheese to be just melted but still holding its ghost shape. While the pizzas bake, pour your tomato soup into a medium pot and heat it over medium-low heat until it’s simmering. Do not let it boil vigorously; a gentle warm-up keeps the flavor fresh.
- Ladle the warm tomato soup into four bowls. To create the spiderweb, put your cream or thinned sour cream into a small plastic bag and snip off a tiny corner. Draw three concentric circles on top of the soup. Take a toothpick and drag it from the center circle outward to the edge of the bowl to create a web effect. Serve each bowl of “spooky” soup alongside two ghost pizzas and enjoy immediately!
- Cook Time: 27 minutes