Gluten-free mini Halloween pizzas

Planning a Halloween party for your kids? These mini gluten-free mummy pizzas will wow the crowd – they’re tasty, gluten-free and just a little bit spooky too… Makes 16 mini pizzas

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 125ml milk *
• 3g fast-action yeast *
• 1 tsp caster sugar
• 200g gluten-free bread flour *
• ½ tsp xanthan gum *
• 1 tsp salt *
• 1 egg, beaten
• ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda

For the topping:

• 130g passata
• 4 slices of mature cheese
• 32 sliced green or black olives

* Available at Holland & Barrett

Method

• Step 1 To make the dough, heat the milk in a small saucepan until warm.
• Step 2 Turn off the heat and sprinkle in the caster sugar and yeast. Set aside until required.
• Step 3 In a large bowl, combine the gluten-free bread flour, xanthan gum, salt and bicarbonate of soda.
• Step 4 Mix well and then add in the egg.
• Step 5 Work this into the dry mixture a little, and then gradually pour in the yeasty milk mixture. Mix the dough until well combined.
• Step 6 Shape into a ball and place in a clean bowl, cover with cling film and leave for 1.5 hours to rise. Once the dough is ready, it should be puffed up and soft to touch.
• Step 7 Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan.
• Step 8 Using a rolling pin, on a floured work surface, roll the dough to about the thickness of a £1 coin.
• Step 9 Use an 8cm round cookie cutter to stamp out 16 mini pizza bases and then transfer these to two baking trays.
• Step 10 Place 1 teaspoon of passata into the centre of each pizza base and smooth around, leaving a little space around the edge. Once they are all coated, bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until golden.
• Step 11 While the bases are cooking, prepare the cheese ‘bandages’: trim the cheese slices until they are approximately 8cm in length, and then cut into matchstick-width strips. They need to be thin as they spread when melted.
• Step 12 Once the bases are cooked, carefully lay 2 olive slices on each to look like eyes and then lay 4-5 strips of cheese over the base at jaunty angles to look like bandages.
• Step 13 Return to the oven for 30 seconds only, just to melt the cheese. Transfer onto a platter and serve immediately.