Spooky Pizza with Ghosts — this is the perfect dish to prepare on a Halloween movie night. This fun pizza with plant-based cheese ghosts and olive spiders is easy to make, and OH so delicious!
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💡 The recipe in a nutshell
- Vegan (eggless and dairy free)
- Holiday meal: the perfect spooky pizza for Halloween
- Easy-to-make
- Homemade pizza crust made from scratch
- Delicious and fun
- Kid-friendly
⏰ Quick version
Feel free to take a shortcut if you can't find the time to make a pizza dough from scratch. Using store-bought pizza dough makes this easy recipe even easier! Since we are using Pomì's Marinara Sauce there is no need to prepare and simmer a sauce.
However, if you have the time I highly recommend making the pizza dough from scratch a day or two before. It is the recipe of my Italian grandpa, SO delicious and worth the extra effort!
📋 Ingredients
To make a spooky pizza you only need a few simple ingredients:
- pizza dough for 2 Ø35cm / 14” pizzas; or 4 Ø18cm / 7” pizzas
- 240 ml Pomì marinara sauce (1 cup)
- 2 tsp Italian seasoning
- 225 g vegan mozzarella cheese, eg Miyoko's (8 oz)
- Black and green olives
🧀 Where to get vegan Mozzarella
Thankfully veganism is getting more popular each year, opening doors for many new vegan products. There is a bunch of vegan cheeses in our grocery stores nowadays, so keep an eye open for the vegan section!
My favorite vegan Mozarella to use is from Miyoko's which is made on a Cashew Milk base. However, Lisanatti's Almond Mozarella is great too! If you prefer a different brand or even like to make vegan mozzarella from scratch, feel free to do so. It's only important that you have a wedge of vegan cheese, so you can cut into ghost shapes.
👻 How to make a spooky pizza
To make this pizza look spooky we will shape mozzarella into ghost shapes. There are two ways to create ghost shapes out of the cheese. For both ways, you need to slice the cheese first.
Method 1: Use ghost-shaped mini cookie cutters.
Method 2: Cut them out by hand with a small kitchen knife. If you cut them out by hand I recommend making a stencil out of cardboard or thick paper. You find fun shapes to choose from by simply googling "ghost shapes".
To make the eyes I cut an olive into very small pieces, but you can also draw the ghosts' faces with a food coloring marker.
🕷️ How to make edible spiders
Making edible spiders is super easy and will give your homemade foods an extra spooky look! All you need to make edible spiders is olives. Both green and black olives work.
How to: Slice one olive in half. Each half creates a body of the spider. To make the spiders’ legs, take another olive, half it, and then slice it thinly into strips lengthwise. Remember, spiders have eight legs, so make sure to make enough legs for all of your spider bodies.
🍅 Using POMÌ Marinara as the pizza sauce
Pomì tomatoes are cultivated and farmed in Italy, from where they’re then turned into delicious sauces and pastes. The brand ensures that each consumer can trace the product from the store shelf to the field where the tomatoes were grown.
Their products make the perfect base for your homemade sauces, soups, stews, and more. I love how simple and natural their products are. No preservatives, no added water, no GMO – simply Italian tomatoes! Be sure to check out their amazing variety. For this recipe, I use their Marinara Sauce, which is also great for dipping the crust.
📖 Recipe
Spooky Vegan Ghost Pizza
Ingredients
- pizza dough for 2 Ø35cm / 14” pizzas; or 4 Ø18cm / 7” pizzas
- 240 ml Pomì marinara sauce (1 cup)
- 2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 225 g vegan mozzarella cheese, eg Miyoko's (8 oz)
- Black and green olives
To make pizza dough from scratch
- 500 g bread flour (17.7 oz)
- 300 ml lukewarm water (10.2 fl oz )
- 30 ml olive oil (2 tbsp)
- 7 g active dry yeast (2 tsp)
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon cane sugar
Instructions
To make pizza dough from scratch
- Skip this step and follow package instructions, if using store-bought crust instead. Sift the flour into a mixing bowl and mix with the dry yeast. In a measuring cup, mix the water, oil, sugar, and salt and add to the flour. Knead the mixture for at least 10-15 minutes to form a smooth dough. Cover with a clean kitchen towel, or reusable bowl cover. Let rise at room temperature for 30 minutes and then in the refrigerator for 24hours (or up to 48 hours).
Preparing spooky pizza
- Preheat the oven and baking tray to 250°C / 480°F. Cut the dough into half for Ø35cm / 14” pizzas, or quarter for Ø18cm / 7” pizzas. Turn pieces in flour and shape into a thin round base by pressing and pulling. Place pizza crust on lightly floured parchment paper. Let it rest while you prepare the toppings.
- To prepare pizza sauce pour Marinara Sauce into a bowl and add 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning.
- To prepare the spooky toppings cut the cheese into slices and then into ghost shapes with a ghost-shaped cookie cutter; or by hand with a paring knife. Cut the olives into spider shapes. Cutting an olive in half will create the spider body, cutting another olive into half and then into 8 slices will create the legs. Use pieces of black olives as eyes for the ghosts. Spread Marinara Sauce onto pizzas. Top pizza with spooky toppings as desired, slide onto a hot baking sheet. Turn down the temperature to 220°C / 425°F and bake for 15 minutes each.
- Sprinkle pizzas with the remaining teaspoon of Italian seasoning, and optional with some more olive oil. Enjoy!
Notes
For more vegan Italian recipes browse our Italian recipe page.
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So easy to make and delicious pizza! I will do this for my family tonight.
Thank you for your feedback Lucas! The pizza dough recipe is actually from my Italian grandpa (he’s from Sicily). I’m sure everyone in your family will enjoy some homemade pizza!
What a lovely recipe! Perfect for hallowe’en!!
Love how simple this vegan pizza is to make. It'll be a fun activity for the kids too!
Another great recipe Jacqui! The marinara was out of this world.
This vegan pizza is so scrumptious, thank you for teaching us how to make homemade pizza dough, it's really that simple and much better than the store-bought!
I love it! This pizza is super cute (and yummy!) Perfect for Halloween!
We love doing pizza nights and this is such a fun pizza to make with my boys. They absolutely enjoyed the idea and had so much making their own.
What a fun and creative recipe! Perfect for a Friday night pizza date!
the cutest ghost pizza ever
Super fun recipe to make and easy to customize with the shapes. The kids really enjoyed it!
this pizza is the cutest and most delicious pizza ever! so fun for the kids and outright tasty!