Description
These Cheesy Halloween Pizza Skulls are a fun and spooky twist on classic pizza, perfect for parties and kid-friendly Halloween snacks. Made with pizza dough filled with mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, and your choice of toppings, then baked in skull-shaped molds for a festive presentation.
Ingredients
Scale
Pizza Dough
- 1 can refrigerated pizza dough
Filling
- 1 cup pizza sauce
- 1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- ½ cup mini pepperoni slices or chopped regular pepperoni
- ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
- Optional: chopped black olives, cooked sausage, or bell peppers for filling
Other
- Nonstick cooking spray
Instructions
- Prepare the mold: Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C) and lightly spray a skull-shaped silicone mold or metal pan with nonstick cooking spray to ensure easy removal of the pizza skulls after baking.
- Shape the dough: Roll out the pizza dough on a flat surface and cut it into pieces large enough to line each skull cavity of the mold, allowing some dough to hang over the edges for sealing.
- Fill the skull cavities: Gently press the dough pieces into each skull-shaped cavity, ensuring the dough covers the bottom and sides. Spoon a layer of pizza sauce into each cavity followed by a generous amount of shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Add toppings and seasoning: Add desired toppings such as mini pepperoni, chopped black olives, cooked sausage, or bell peppers to each filled cavity. Sprinkle ½ teaspoon of Italian seasoning evenly over the fillings for added flavor.
- Seal the dough: Fold the overhanging dough over the top of the filling to enclose it completely, sealing the edges carefully to keep the filling inside while baking.
- Bake the pizza skulls: Place the mold on a baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven for 18 to 22 minutes until the dough is golden brown and cooked through.
- Cool and serve: Remove the mold from the oven and allow the pizza skulls to cool for about 5 minutes before carefully removing them from the mold. Serve warm with extra pizza sauce for dipping.
Notes
- Make these pizza skulls ahead of time and reheat them in the oven for a quick Halloween party snack.
- Get creative with spooky fillings like mozzarella balls as “eyeballs” or chopped sausage as “brains.”
