Halloween Pizza - Vampire

This Halloween Pizza Vampire will be a great addition to your party! It's so delicious all of your family and friends will be dying to sink their fangs into it!

Originally posted on Hungry Halloween on June 14, 2010. I always loved this vampire pizza so I thought I'd bring it out of the cobwebs to share with you again.

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Our current love affair with vampires is creating such a frenzy for themed parties and food that I decided to create a vampire-inspired dish.

Pizza is always the first food to get devoured at my Halloween parties, so I just had to have some fun turning a pizza into a vampire for our party.

I am so excited about how this Halloween meal turned out that I even gave him a name, Count Pizzala! My vampire pizza has black olive eyes, black olive hair, a roasted red pepper smile, and garlic fangs.

I am certain my Halloween party guests are going to love this.

Ingredients

1 tube refrigerated pizza dough (11 oz.)
½ cup pizza sauce
2 ½ cups mozzarella cheese
1 cup jumbo pitted black olives, drained
1 (4-inch) strip roasted red pepper or sun-dried tomato
2 narrow garlic cloves, peeled

Supplies

pizza wheel or knife
large baking sheet lined with parchment paper

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a 12” x 18” baking pan with parchment paper.

Shape the Vampire Pizza

• Unroll pizza dough onto the parchment-lined pan.
• Cut a 10” circle in the center of the dough.
• Remove the excess dough and set it on a cutting board.
• Cut three 2 ½” circles from the excess dough.
• Place two of the small circles of dough on either side of the large dough circle to form the vampire's ears.
• Roll the remaining dough circle into a ball and place it on the large dough circle for the vampire's nose.
• Bake for 6-7 minutes until the dough is lightly golden brown.

Top the pizza.

• Remove from oven and add toppings.
• Spread pizza sauce over the entire dough except for the nose.

• Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the sauce.
• Don't cover the nose.

Decorate Count Pizzala

• Cut one jumbo black olive in half lengthwise.
  • These olive halves will be the vampire's eyes.
• Place above and to either side of his nose.
• Finely chop the remaining olives.
  • The chopped olives will become the vampire's hair.
• Sprinkle the chopped olives all along the top of the vampire's head forming his pointed brow.* (see notes below)
• Add the strip of roasted red pepper for his mouth and attach two garlic clove fangs.
  • If your garlic cloves aren't shaped like a fang, cut them into a curved point.

Return the vampire pizza to the oven and bake for 6-10 minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbly.

Serve hot.

Notes for creating the vampire's brow:

• To easily form the vampire's brow, place two equal-size bowls over the vampire's face.
• The bowls should meet at the center of the vampire's face to form the point in his brow.
• Sprinkle the olives around the bowls.
• Remove the bowls.
• You will now have a clean-looking hairline.

Variations

Skull-Shaped Pizzas

You could cut your pizza dough into a skull shape then top it with sauce and cheese. Use chopped bacon (top image) or pepperoni (bottom image) to create the eyes, nose, and mouth.

Related Recipes

Vampire Cupcakes made with White Reese's Cups

Mickey Mouse Vampire Oreo Cookies

Be sure to check out all the Halloween recipes here on Hungry Happenings.

Recipe

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Halloween Pizza Vampire

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

12 mins

 

Vampire shaped pizza topped with pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese and decorated with black olive eyes, chopped olive hair, a roasted red pepper smile, and garlic clove fangs.

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Halloween pizza, pizza, vampire pizza

Servings: 8

Author: Beth Klosterboer

Ingredients

• 1 tube refrigerated pizza dough (approximately 11 oz.)
• ½ cup pizza sauce
• 2 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1 cup jumbo pitted black olives, drained
• 1 4”-5” strip roasted red pepper or sun-dried tomato
• 2 narrow garlic cloves, peeled

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line a 12” x 18” baking pan with parchment paper.

2. Unroll pizza dough onto the parchment-lined pan.

   Cut a 10” circle in the center of the dough.

   Remove the excess dough and set on a cutting board.

   Cut three 2 ½” circles from the excess dough.

   Place two of the small circles of dough on either side of the large dough circle to form the vampire's ears.

   Roll the remaining dough circle into a ball and place on the large dough circle for the vampire's nose.

   Bake for 6-7 minutes until the dough is lightly golden brown.

3. Remove from oven and add toppings. Spread pizza sauce over entire dough except for the nose.
4. Sprinkle cheese over sauce.

5. Cut one jumbo black olive in half lengthwise.

   Place above and to either side of his nose.

   Finely chop remaining olives.

   Sprinkle the chopped olives all along the top of the vampire's head forming his pointed brow.

   Add the strip of roasted red pepper for his mouth and attach two garlic clove fangs.

6. Return to oven and bake for 6-10 minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbly. Serve hot.

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Beth Klosterboer

Hi, I'm Beth Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com

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