Today I’m sharing Mummy in a Coffin Pizza!
We just love Halloween in our house and my son may have got to old to enjoy it but my daughter loves getting dressed up each year and being a creative arty type she really gets into the whole makeover part of it! I don’t dress up (well maybe just a witches hat for when we go trick or treating) but I do go to town dressing up our front bay window like an Aladdin’s cave of Halloween decorations. I seem to have bought up every Halloween item you could think of over the years. I was like a magpie in the sales so have had to put a stop to my buying!
Anyway, I’ve been so busy lately I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to fit in a Halloween post which was making me very sad. I’ve done a post or 2 for Halloween every year so luckily yesterday a bit of ghoulish inspiration hit me. I made this really quick and easy Mummy in a Coffin Pizza with a ciabatta loaf, some pesto, a clove of garlic, some strips of mozzarella and a black olive.
It’s so simple that kids of any age can enjoy making it with just some help for the grilling part. I think this pizza would make the perfect centre piece for a Halloween Party. You could even make individual coffins out of ciabatta rolls. We just had this for lunch with some salad but you could slice the pizza sandwiches up quite small for some great finger food!
I wish you a happy and safe Halloween. Do be careful where you and your children stand when you go out trick or treating as naked flames in pumpkins and polyester outfits are a recipe for disaster. My daughter narrowly missed having her dress catch light last year when a neighbour had placed their lit pumpkin too far out on their porch!
If you’re having a Halloween Party here are some more ideas you might like:
- Halloween Chocolate Apples – Fab Food 4 All
- Kransakage Mummies – Fab Food 4 All
- Easy Halloween Ghost Cupcakes – Fab Food 4 All
- Spooky Spider Fairy Cakes – Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
- Toxic Swamp Halloween Smoothie – Fuss Free Flavours
- Halloween Ghost Rice Krispie Pops – Kerry Cooks
- Eye Ball Themed Treats & Desserts – Eats Amazing
Why not pin my Mummy in a Coffin Pizza for later?
Mummy in a Coffin Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 Ciabatta loaf
- ½ Jar green or red pesto I used basil
- 1 Garlic clove peeled
- 1 Mozzarella ball drained and cut into strips
- 2 Black olive slices
Instructions
- Start by slicing the ciabatta loaf in half (sideways).
- Place under a grill and toast on both side until just golden.
- Rub the inside of the ciabatta halves with the clove of garlic (gives a lovely flavour).
- Spread a layer of pesto over the bottom half of the ciabatta (the mummy side).
- Place the strips of Mozzarella in a zig zag pattern (quite tightly to fit all the mozzarella) on top of the pesto, don't worry if you need to break bits to fit.
- Add the olive slices at one end for the eyes.
- Put the ciabatta base back under the grill until the cheese has just gone molten (that way the stripes show really well or you can leave it a bit longer like I did for a more rotted corpse look – nice:-)
- Place ciabatta lid back under grill for a 20 seconds each side just to heat up.
- Arrange ciabatta “coffin” lid to be partially covering the “mummy” base and place in centre of your Halloween table.
- To serve place lid on and cut into sandwiches big or small depending on how much other food you are serving (we had just this for lunch which served 4).
- Happy Halloween:-)
Diane
Ghoulish indeed! Love the green pesto and the mummy eyes! This is perfect for a delicious grossout halloween party food!
Camilla
Thanks Diane, there were stripes but left it a little too long under the grill LOL;-)
Sandi (@sandigtweets)
This is a super cute idea.
Camilla
Thank you Sandi:-)
Katerina
I am a total sucker for pizza even if it is as scary as this one lol!
Camilla
Aaw, thanks Katerina:-)
Janette@culinaryginger
This is such a cute idea and yummy too
Camilla
Thank you Janette, we really enjoyed it:-)
Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours
Not just for Halloween – this looks delicious and so simple Camilla. Thanks for linking to my smoothie.
Camilla
Thanks Helen, yes I’m sure we’ll be having this again soon;-)
Manila Spoon
Haha! Very creative – scary and delicious!
Camilla
Thank you so much:-)
Nicole Neverman
This is such a fun idea and it sounds delicious too 🙂 I bet ciabatta makes a delicious pizza base.
Camilla
Thanks Nicole, yes we often use ciabatta rolls as a base for pizza as it works so well:-)
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry
I wish your daughter lived near me so she can face paint my two. Fun recipe.
Camilla
I’m sure she’d love that Bintu:-)
KC the Kitchen Chopper
What a cute idea. Looks delish too! We sometimes get to go trick or treating with The Hubby’s youngest niece and it’s so fun.
Camilla
Thanks KC – it is fun trick or treating:-)
Leila Benhamida
Simple and look delicious, great combination of flavours.
Camilla
Thanks Leila:-)