🍕 Mummy Pizzas

Mummy Pizza for kids: the whole recipe

Let's wrap little pizzas in cheese bandages, like friendly mummies! This easy Halloween treat is for ages 5 to 11 (grades K–5th), takes about 20 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along, and every hot or sharp step is marked for a grown-up.

Ingredients

• 2 English muffins
• 4 tablespoons pizza sauce
• 2 sticks of string cheese
• 8 olive slices (optional)

Tools

A baking tray, Measuring spoons, A big spoon, The oven (grown-up), Oven mitts, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Grown-up step: A grown-up turns the oven on to 400°F so it gets nice and hot.
3. Pull 2 English muffins apart into halves and lay them on a tray.
4. Spread 4 tablespoons of pizza sauce over each half with the back of a spoon.
5. Peel 2 sticks of string cheese into long, thin strips.
6. Lay the strips across each pizza, crisscross, like a mummy's bandages.
7. Tuck 8 olive slices into the gaps, two eyes for each mummy.
8. Grown-up step: A grown-up bakes them for 8 minutes, wearing oven mitts.
9. Grown-up step: A grown-up takes them out with mitts on: let them cool for 5 minutes.
10. Mummy pizzas! Blow on them first, then take a big bite.

Safety notes

• Hot! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains milk, wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Pull cheese into thin strips, not chunks, for little ones under 4.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.

Kitchen science

Heat melts cheese: the strips go soft and stick together where they cross, so the bandages hold on.

Make it your own

• Stick on candy eyes after baking for googly eyes.
• Use a bagel half or a mini pita instead of a muffin.
• Hide a slice of pepperoni under the bandages.

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