Halloween treats from the California Pizza Kitchen Family Cookbook

Are you looking to cook up a Halloween treat with the kids? Then try this Halloween recipe from the California Pizza Kitchen Family Cookbook.

This spooky Jack-O-Lantern pizza is actually pumpkin pie on a pizza crust. This will be a fun Halloween recipe for the kids, and perfect to bring to parties at school or to serve at home.

California Pizza Kitchen Family Cookbook

In their newest cookbook, CPK co-founders and co-CEOs Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield show you and your family how to prepare pizzas, kids’ favorites, and other CPK specialties at home.

It features kid-friendly CPKids Pizza Party recipes, including a Create-Your-Own Pizza, which would be fun to make at sleepovers. There are also recipes for CPK’s more popular dishes like Jamaican Jerk Chicken Pizza, Thai Crunch Salad (one of my faves!) to Grilled Chicken Pesto Panini.

The book is available on Amazon. However, if purchase it at your favorite CPK restaurant, 100% of the proceeds go to children’s charities nationwide.

Jack-O-Lantern Pizza

Ingredients:

• Pizza dough
• Confectioners’ sugar
• Pumpkin pie filling
• Mini chocolate chips
• Chocolate kisses
• Whipped cream
• Candy corn

Directions:

1. Place the sugar in a fine-mesh strainer and sift. Then apply an even layer of sugar over the dough. This will caramelize as the pizza bakes
2. Transfer the pizza to the oven and bake for 5 min to set the dough.
3. Once the crust has been partially cooked, remove from oven and spread with a thin layer of pumpkin pie filling.
4. Return to the oven for another 5 -10 minutes, or until the filling is set.
5. Remove and allow the pizza to cool
6. Decorate the pizzas using mini chocolate chips to represent the vertical lines, whipped cream for the eyes and mouth, chocolate kisses for the eyeballs, and the candy corn for the teeth.

Anne-Marie Nichols is the Managing Editor Mom Central Food. You can also find her cooking up some healthy recipes at This Mama Cooks! On a Diet.

Anne-Marie Nichols