Halloween Mini Pizzas everyone is sure to love

These Halloween Mini Pizzas are actually a recipe that has been around here for years, as part of my epic Halloween food ideas platter.

But I thought it was time they got they got special treatment, where I can visually show you, step-by-step, how to cut the olives to make the spiders.

This recipe is incredibly beginner-friendly. Even if you’re a little unsure of your knife skills, as long as you have a sharp knife, you can whip up these spider pizzas without any hassle.

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This chicken pizza recipe has layers of flavor!

A recipe with this much flavor is usually one that involves hours and hours to develop that flavor (totally true of my fettuccine bolognese).

But, just like my gyro pizza, this chicken pizza recipe uses shortcuts from the grocery store to achieve a gourmet pizzeria flavor in just about a half an hour.

With unique, chef-inspired ingredients like roasted garlic, fresh mozzarella cheese and everything bagel seasoning, this will be the best chicken breast pizza you’ve ever made at home.

The recipe card includes instructions for cooking it in the oven OR on the grill (a perfect summer meal).

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Sometimes my recipe inspirations comes from restaurants. Sometimes it’s magazines. And sometimes, there’s nothing else behind it other than I want to put a ton of my favorite ingredients all in one dish.

Like my fried goat cheese salad and shishito pepper recipe before it, this smoked salmon pizza is the last thing. It’s just everything I ever want to eat, put together into one glorious dish.

This pizza or something very similar would probably be included in my last meal on earth. Smoked salmon? Soft eggs? Fresh herbs? Chili crisp? The gang’s all here.

This salmon pizza is a great light meal for a hot day, because it’s meant to be served at room temperature or close to it. This also makes it perfect to cut into small wedges and serve as an appetizer.

Grab a strawberry mule (my drink of choice for my last supper) and let’s get into it!

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Am I the only one that considers ordering pizza to be the weirdest, most awkward social experiment? By nature, it’s designed to be shared with a group. But that also means that you and your friends all have to agree on toppings.

I don’t know about your group of friends, but mine have pretty varied tastes. One person wants mushrooms, somebody else stand them (too bad, because they’ll miss out on chicken stroganoff!).

Somebody else wants olives, but another person would rather have anything but olives. Oh, and then somebody wants a chicken pizza and the pepperoni lovers give them the side eye.

This usually results in ordering ALL of the pizzas and having leftovers for days (and spending way too much money).

With game day coming up, I came up with a fun option where everybody can get their way. It’s not quite the same as a regular pizza, but this crostini pizza bar is a fun appetizer to pair with other game day food like healthy buffalo chicken dip and my football themed charcuterie board.

By the time you load your plate up with snacks, you pretty much have a meal, right?

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Do you have “clean out the fridge” meals once in awhile, or even weekly?

Pizza is frequently on our menu for that type of meal, because pizza (and even a crostini pizza bar) is great as a vehicle to use up extra odds and ends hanging out in the fridge (like rotisserie chicken for chicken pizza or cheeseburger pizza made with leftover ground beef).

Often, these leftover ingredients are from two or three recipes I’ve made for work, resulting in one big Frankenpizza (which is honestly how the crab rangoon pizza came about).

Celery, grape tomatoes and odds and ends of cheese often need to be used up. And we always have shrimp of some kind in the freezer, because it’s one of my daughter’s favorite foods.

While shrimp is great for an appetizer or a seafood pasta salad, you might not generally think of it for pizza. I’m hoping I can change your mind with this buffalo shrimp pizza recipe.

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I always joke that this blog should be named “Foxes Love Pizza,” since I’m so often publishing pizza recipes. My cheeseburger pizza and chicken pizza recipes are some of the most popular recipes on this site.

Which is why it’s all the more surprising that I haven’t published my recipe for homemade pizza dough!

Yes, there are 100,000 recipes (probably more) on the internet for homemade dough, and I’m not going to lie to you and tell you mine is anything groundbreaking. It’s not. It’s a classic homemade pizza dough.

But what I CAN tell you is that it’s easy, it’s fun (if you think kneading dough is fun and/or stress-relieving), it’s flavorful, and it will work for you, every single time, without fail. Deal?

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Before having a kid, I could count on one hand the number of times I’d eaten crab rangoons in my life.

It wasn’t something my parents ordered when we got Chinese takeout, and it wasn’t until I met my husband in college that I was introduced to this very Americanized Chinese appetizer to go alongside my General Tso’s chicken.

But one night after my daughter had started eating solid foods, we ordered crab rangoons on a whim. And she LOVED them. I mean, she could have devoured an entire order herself if we let her.

Now, when she hears takeout food delivered to our porch, she always asks “are there goonies?” She is so disappointed when we’ve ordered burritos or chicken shawarma instead. But we order far more crab rangoons than I’d like to admit.

So today, I thought I would combine my daughter’s favorite food with my husband’s favorite food of pizza (he’s the inventor of our cheeseburger pizza and chicken pizza), to make a very special treat for both of them, with this crab rangoon pizza.

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Disclosure: This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the Michigan Cherry Committee. All opinions are 100% my own.

Sometimes, I’m pretty sure I should have named this blog “Foxes Love Pizza,” and just gone all in on homemade pizza! Homemade pizza is something I grew up eating, albeit classic pepperoni and mushroom most of the time.

But sometime over the years, as my husband and I started cooking together more, we began branching out into things like chicken pizza with roasted garlic, cheeseburger pizza with all of the fixings, and even crostini pizza bars for parties.

These days, homemade pizza is almost always on our weekly meal plan, sometimes if only to use up leftover ingredients from other meals.

Last week, I had a bag of Brussels sprouts originally destined for air fryer Brussels sprouts or maple Brussels sprouts that were abandoned a few days prior (I’m no hero, I love takeout after a long day). I had also made some bacon in the oven for breakfast, and had a few slices left over.

I paired those ingredients with Montmorency tart cherries to create this easy, savory and sweet, homemade Brussels sprouts pizza with cherry glaze.

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Loaded Potato Pizza

I may have mentioned this previously, but I keep a “to make for the blog” list of recipe ideas on my phone.

I’m always adding to it based on inspiration I get from restaurants (like a blood orange margarita), magazines (like the chilean sea bass I adapted from Bon Appetit) and the farmer’s market (like a batch of fajitas veggies when bell peppers are in season).

“Loaded Baked Potato Pizza” has been on that list since, I kid you not, 2013. Well, I finally made it a reality, and it was just as delicious as I always hoped it would be!

Now I’m wondering why I waited so long to make this recipe. My favorite thing about this Loaded Baked Potato Pizza recipe is that it can be made entirely with ingredients you already have in your kitchen or are EASY to find at any grocery store (just like my loaded mashed potato casserole).

No hunting around for obscure ingredients required.

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Little known fact about me: I don’t really like pizza that much. I know, it’s as un-American as it gets. But it’s not entirely true.

You see, it’s fine, but I would just never choose pizza, when I have my choice of restaurant or takeout meals (or even the option to make a super fast meal at home, like turkey meatballs recipe air fryer or salmon pesto pasta).

So many American families default to pizza as the easiest option at the end of a very long, busy day, but we hardly ever do. My long suffering husband never gets his fill of takeout pizza (although I will make him a crostini pizza bar once in awhile).

But don’t feel bad for him. Because I do love HOMEMADE pizza, especially with flavor combinations that go beyond the typical cheese and pepperoni.

This Gyro Pizza is the type of pizza that I’m happy to eat, and share with you!

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