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Learn just how fun & easy it is to make your very own mini Hello Kitty Pizza! With 3 designs to choose from, you can easily customize these heart-shaped margherita pizzas until you have your perfect bite. A must-try for any Hello Kitty fan! {Vegetarian options}
Ingredients
Food Items:
- Pre-baked pizza crust (thin crust works best)
- Pizza sauce
- Mozzarella cheese slices (thick cut)
- Fresh basil leaves
- 1 slice bologna* (see Recipe Notes for substitutions)
- Nori seaweed
- 1 slice orange cheese
Recommended Tools:
- Large heart-shaped cookie cutter
- Hello Kitty onigiri mold
- Hello Kitty nori punch
- Hello Kitty food cutter
- Small cat-head food cutter
- Tiny bow food cutter
- Small heart-shaped food or cookie cutter
- Edible red food marker
- Tiny heart-shaped food cutter (optional)
Instructions
Making the Pizza:
- Using the large heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out a heart shape from the pizza crust. Repeat until you have the desired number of mini pizza crusts.
- Spread pizza sauce atop each heart crust, then top with fresh basil leaves.
Design #1: Classic Hello Kitty Pizza
- Using the outline of the Hello Kitty onigiri mold (the pink insert portion) as a cutter, cut out a Hello Kitty head from a slice of mozzarella cheese. Use a toothpick to help you remove the cutout from the mold (be careful not to tear the cheese).
- Using the Hello Kitty nori punch, punch out the full design from the nori. Reserve the eyes and whiskers, and discard the nose.
- Using the bow portion of the Hello Kitty food cutter, cut out a bow from the bologna.
- Using the nose portion of the Hello Kitty food cutter, cut out Hello Kitty’s nose from the slice of orange cheese.
- Using tweezers, apply the mozzarella Hello Kitty head onto the middle of a prepared pizza crust. Add the nori eyes, nori whiskers, cheese nose, and bologna bow (I recommend using a Hello Kitty picture as a guide when doing this).
- Optional: Decorate the rest of the pizza with mini mozzarella cheese hearts, made using the mini heart-shaped food cutter.
Design #2: Mini Hello Kitty Pizza
- Using the small cat-head cutter, cut out 2 – 3 cat heads from the mozzarella cheese. I used 2 – 3 cat heads per mini pizza, so cut out as many as you’ll be needing.
- Using the tiny bow cutter, cut out 2 – 3 bows from the bologna (or enough bows for each mozzarella cat head you have).
- Using tweezers, place the mozzarella cat heads onto the prepared pizza crust, in whatever pattern you’d like. Finish by adding a bologna bow onto the ear of each cat head – it should resemble a mini Hello Kitty head, without the facial features.
- Optional: Decorate the rest of the pizza with mini mozzarella cheese hearts, made using the mini heart-shaped food cutter.
Design #3: Hello Kitty Bow Pizza
- Using the small heart-shaped food cutter, cut out 2 – 3 hearts from the mozzarella cheese slice. I used 2 – 3 cheese hearts per mini pizza, so cut out as many as you’ll be needing.
- Using the bow portion of the Hello Kitty food cutter, cut out 2 – 3 bows from the bologna (or enough bows for each mozzarella heart you have). Color one side of each bologna bow red using the red edible food marker.
- Using tweezers, place the mozzarella cheese hearts onto the prepared pizza crust, in whatever pattern you’d like. Place a colored bologna bow on top of each mozzarella heart.
- Optional: Decorate the rest of the pizza with mini mozzarella cheese hearts, made using the mini heart-shaped food cutter.
Notes
- Possible bologna substitutions: red pepper, pepperoni, or any pink deli meat (such as ham or prosciutto).
- To make these pizzas completely vegetarian, replace the bologna with either red pepper, white cheese colored with a food marker, or pink dyed egg crepe (recipe can be found here).
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