Halloween Pizza

INGREDIENTS FOR EASY HALLOWEEN SPIDER PIZZA

• 2 1/2 tspn rapid rise yeast
• 1 cup water
• 2 1/2 cups flour (best if you have bread flour, but all-purpose will work)
• 2 tblspn olive oil
• Pinch sugar
• 1 cup pizza sauce – I just use canned spaghetti sauce sometimes (or you can make it from scratch with this amazing recipe)
• 2 cups mozzarella cheese
• 5 slices of pepperoni
• 10 black olives
• 10 green olives
• 4 cherry tomatoes

HOW TO MAKE EASY HALLOWEEN SPIDER PIZZA

1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. Mix yeast, flour and sugar in a medium mixing bowl.
3. Add water and olive oil. Mix thoroughly until dough is smooth.
4. Cover with a damp paper towel and let stand for 5-10 minutes, depending on how thick you like your pizza.
5. While that’s sitting, slice the cherry tomatoes into 40 (YES, 40!) very thin little slices.
6. Slice 5 of the green olives and 5 of the black olives into thin little slices. Yes, 40, each, please. Those spiders need to have 8 legs each!
7. Turn the dough out onto a lightly-floured sheet of wax paper.
8. Pat or roll into a round-ish shape (I am intrinsically unable to do this in a round way–its always a crazy amoeba). If you like a thick crust, be sure to leave the dough thick around the edge.
9. Cover the center with pizza sauce, except for the edge, of course.
10. Place a liberal layer of mozzarella cheese over the pizza sauce.
11. Strategically place your 5 whole black and green olives and your 5 pepperoni slices over the pizza.
12. Lay the 8 slices of green olive next to the green olives like legs.
13. Repeat for the black olives.
14. Place slices of tomato next to the pepperonis, too.
15. Place in the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes or until the cheese is completely melted and browned the way you like it.
16. Remove from heat and allow to cool for approximately 5 minutes.
17. Slice and feed to your tiny monsters!