Mini Pizza Mummies

Turn dinner rolls into adorable mini pizza mummies with googly olive eyes and string cheese bandages!

45 min Medium

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These fun Mini Pizza Mummies are perfect for Halloween. Simply flatten prepared roll dough, top with pizza sauce, and bake briefly. Then add olive eyes and string cheese strips for a mummy look, bake until melted, and enjoy a spooky tasty treat.

Ingredients

8 pieces of prepared dinner roll dough, shaped into individual round rolls (after the first rise)

1/3 cup pizza sauce

8 individually wrapped string cheese (about 1 ounce each), pulled apart into thin strips.

16 sliced olives

Sprinkle of Italian seasoning

Directions

Preheat your oven to 350°F, placing a rack in the middle position. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Gently flatten each dinner roll dough round into a 4-inch circle. Spread about 1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons of pizza sauce over each round, then prick the dough several times with a fork (like you would for a pie crust).

Bake the rounds for about 10 minutes, then remove the pan from the oven.

Place two olive slices on each round to look like eyes. Then arrange the string cheese strips in a random crisscross pattern over the dough to resemble a mummy's wrappings. Sprinkle a small amount of Italian seasoning on top.

Return the pan to the oven and bake for another 4 minutes, until the cheese is just melted. If you want the cheese to be more browned and melted, move the pan to the top rack and bake for an additional 5 to 8 minutes.