Recipe: Cheese Ghost Mini Pizzas

Meghan Splawn
Meghan Splawn
Meghan was the Food Editor for Kitchn's Skills content. She's a master of everyday baking, family cooking, and harnessing good light. Meghan approaches food with an eye towards budgeting — both time and money — and having fun. Meghan has a baking and pastry degree, and spent the first 10 years of her career as part of Alton Brown's culinary team. She co-hosts a weekly podcast about food and family called Didn't I Just Feed You.
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Make these cute ghost pizzas as an after school or pre-trick-or-treat nibble your kids will love.

Makes12 mini pizzas

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Cheese pizza ghosts are the only kind of ghost you’ll want haunting your kitchen this Halloween. A quick combination of English muffins, pizza sauce, and sliced mozzarella cheese come together for a festive snack or dinner.

The secret to cute and easy cheese ghosts? A flower-shaped cookie cutter.

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Cheese Ghosts Go Boo!

The hardest part of making pizza ghosts is cutting the cheese! Cheese type matters, too — softer cheeses like fresh mozzarella will ooze over the edges of the pizza. Pick a skim mozzarella block that you can slice and then cut the ghosts out using a cookie cutter.

You can buy a ghost cookie cutter, sure, but chances are you already have a flower cookie cutter you can invert and turn into a ghost. Inverted Santa hat and holiday bell cookie cutters work well too.

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Ghost Pizza

Make these cute ghost pizzas as an after school or pre-trick-or-treat nibble your kids will love.

Makes 12 mini pizzas

Nutritional Info

Ingredients

  • 1 (16-ounce) block

    part-skim mozzarella

  • 6

    English muffins, split

  • 3/4 cup

    pizza sauce or marinara

Instructions

  1. Slice the mozzarella into 1/8-inch-thick slabs — the wider the better. Use a cookie cutter (a ghost or an inverted tulip) or a paring knife to cut a ghost shape in each cheese slice. Use a straw to punch eyes out of each ghost.

  2. Arrange an oven rack 6 to 8 inches from the broiler and heat broiler to low. Arrange the English muffins on a rimmed baking sheet. Broil until dry but not browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from oven and spread each muffin with 1 tablespoon pizza sauce. Lay a cheese ghost on each pizza. Return to oven and broil the pizzas until the cheese has melted, 3 to 5 minutes more. If the cheese spreads too much, use a chopstick to nudge it back into place — a little circular motion in the eyes will widen them.

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