A little spooky and festively themed, these Halloween pizzas are easy to make with Halloween-style toppings. The perfect party recipe or pre-trick or treat dinner idea!
Want more themed Halloween recipes? Make spider cookies, Halloween sugar cookies, Halloween Oreo balls or graveyard dirt cake!
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Why I Love Halloween Pizza
- Festive and fun: Our family loves homemade pizzas and Halloween mini pizzas have become a spooky Halloween tradition along with Halloween puking pumpkin!
- Customizable: Halloween pizza recipe ideas include a ghost pizza, spider pizza or make one similar to Papa John’s jack o’lantern pizza!
- Easy to make: Mini pizzas are a fun easy Halloween recipe that allow kids to get involved in the kitchen! Their smaller size also bakes faster.
How to Make Halloween Pizzas
Preheat oven to 450°F and line a baking pan with parchment paper. Place room temperature pizza dough on a floured surface. Divide dough into two portions, roll into 8-inch circles and spread crust with pizza sauce and add shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Jack-o-lantern pizza: Add round pepperoni eyes, cut a pepperoni for a triangle nose and use an orange bell pepper for the mouth and reserve pepper stem for the pumpkin stem.
- Spider pizza: Use whole black olives for the spider bodies and black olive slices for the spider legs. You can even arrange the cheese to create a spider web if you like!
- Ghosts: Use fresh slices of mozzarella cheese or mozzarella balls for the ghost shape and olives for the eyes.
- Mummy pizza: Use strips of cheese and / or chicken to make the ‘bandages’ and then add some olives for eyeballs!
Bake Halloween pizzas for 15-20 minutes until pizza crust is golden brown and cheese is melted and bubbly. Top with garlic, oregano, basil or sea salt as desired.
Recipe Variations
- Monster faces: Use mushrooms, green bell pepper, pineapple chunks, olives, pepperoni and red onion to create spooky Halloween pizzas with monster appeal.
- Pizza dough: Use this no yeast pizza dough or whole wheat pizza dough instead.
- Toppings: Browse all my pizza recipes for more favorite pizza toppings!
- Sauce: For an even spookier ghost pizza, use this white pizza sauce instead of traditional marinara sauce. Want a witch or zombie? Try pesto sauce!
- Smaller pizzas: To make mini Halloween pizzas, divide dough into 4 balls and roll into 6-inch circles.
Need more homemade pizza recipes? Try heart shaped pizza at Valentine’s Day or sheet pan pizza for game day!
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Halloween Pizzas Recipe
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Ingredients
Base
- ½ pound pizza dough , homemade or store-bought
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup pizza sauce , homemade or store-bought
Spiders
- 10 black olives
- ½ cup shredded mozzarella
Mummy or Ghosts
- 4 slices fresh mozzarella cheese
- 2 black olives
Jack-o'-lantern
- 3 pepperoni slices
- ½ orange bell pepper , reserving the stem if desired
- ½ cup shredded mozzarella
Instructions
- Prep. Preheat the oven to 450°F. On a well-floured surface, divide 1/2 pound pizza dough in half and let come to room temperature if it's been refrigerated.
- Roll out pizza crust. Using a rolling pin or by tossing, roll or toss each half until 1/4-inch thick and about a 8-inch circle.
- Add sauce. Lightly brush oil onto a pizza stone or large baking sheet. Transfer dough onto the stone or baking sheet. Spread sauce evenly over the dough.
Spiders
- Slice each olive in half, reserving whole halves for spider bodies. Slice the other halves, horizontally, into small strips for legs.
- Sprinkle cheese over the top of the dough. Make the spiders by placing a whole half of an olive, cut-side down, onto the cheese. Add 8 strips around the olive to create legs. Repeat with as many spiders as you like.
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown and bubbly.
Mummy or Ghosts
- For the mummy: slice the mozzarella slices into strips. Place over the sauce in an uneven pattern to look like bandages. Add 2 olives to each pizza for eyes.
- For the ghosts: Place 3 mozzarella slices on each pizza. Slice the olives and add 2 slices to each mozzarella slice for eyes.
- Bake 13 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown and bubbly.
Jack-o'-lantern
- Cut 1 pepperoni slice into triangles for the noses. Slice the bell pepper into 2 fun shapes for the mouths.
- Sprinkle cheese over the top of the dough. Add 2 whole pepperonis for eyes. Add a triangle pepperoni for the nose. Place the bell pepper as the mouth. Repeat with the other pizza. Add the stem of the bell pepper on top, if desired.
- Bake 13 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown and bubbly.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Recipe FAQs
Sure! Buy a 1/2 pound or pound of pizza depending on how many Halloween pizza ideas you will be making with your family.
To make ahead and save time on a busy Halloween night make the pizza sauce up to a week ahead of time and store in the fridge or freezer. You can also prep the Halloween pizza toppings and store them separately refrigerated.
The dough can also be prepped in 1-2 days in advance and stored covered in the fridge. Allow room for the dough to expand as it will continue to rise while in storage.
To freeze unbaked mini pizzas, first blind bake the dough for about 8 minutes. Cool and then decorate with toppings of choice. Place mini pizzas on a baking sheet and flash freeze. Once frozen, wrap in plastic wrap and then foil. Bake from frozen until pizza is cooked through.
Categorized as: Dinner, Halloween, Kid-Friendly, Pizza
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
I think these are the cutest pizzas I have ever seen!! I love that they are small, personal size pizzas, because my kids love making their own & they like to make their own Halloween creation!
I love the fun idea of these! My kids are in love! Perfect for an easy, fun, Halloween dinner!
Oh my gosh, these are so fun! Definitely going to be making these with the kids for Halloween – they’re going to love them!
These are really fun! Thank you so much for the ideas and recipes!