Recipe: Dark Matter Pizza

The perfect pizza to serve at a Halloween party!

One of the new food items for Halloween time at Disneyland this year is the Dark Matter Pizza. It features tomato sauce topped with mozzarella cheese, spicy Italian sausage, roasted mushrooms, and black olives. You can grab a slice at Alien Pizza Planet until November 14, 2024, or make it yourself at home anytime! 

Dark Matter Pizza

Yields 1 pizza

Ingredients:

• 1 package of pizza dough

• 1 jar of tomato sauce

• 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

• 1 pound spicy Italian sausage

• Sliced mushrooms

• 1 can of black olives, drained

Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to 400ºF.

2. Set your pizza dough on a lightly floured surface for 30 minutes to get it to room temperature.

3. Rinse your mushrooms and pat them dry, then add to a baking sheet.

4. Drizzle with olive oil and bake for 15 minutes. Set aside.

5. Add the spicy Italian sausage to a frying pan over medium heat and cook until browned. Set aside.

6. Lightly oil a baking sheet or flour a pizza stone.

7. Flatten and stretch your pizza dough into a 12-inch diameter circle and place on your baking sheet or pizza stone. 

8. Increase your oven temperature to 450ºF and bake your pizza dough for 7 minutes.

9. Remove your partially baked dough from the oven to add your toppings.

10. Spread your tomato sauce around the pizza dough, leaving a bit of room on the edges for the crust. 

11. Add shredded mozzarella cheese in an even layer over top of the sauce. 

12. Layer on your mushrooms, sausage, and black olives, then sprinkle with another light layer of mozzarella cheese. 

13. Increase your oven temperature again to 475ºF and bake the pizza for 10 minutes, or until the cheese is golden and bubbly and the crust is golden brown. 

Review:

This pizza was very good! I enjoyed the combination of the mushrooms with the spicy Italian sausage. The one I got wasn’t too spicy either so it didn’t overpower the pizza. It was pretty easy to make as well. If you have leftovers, you can keep them in the fridge for a few days and reheat them in the microwave, oven, or air fryer!