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Give your favorite healthy lunch a spooky makeover with this easy Halloween Toast shaped into a skull.

A slice of bread topped with tomato, burrata, olives, and basil arranged to resemble a skull makes for fun and creative bite. Served on a white plate with plastic spiders. There's a candle nearby.
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Ready in minutes, everyone will love how fun and delicious this easy recipe is!

Serve the skull toasts as a tasty Halloween breakfast, lunch, or snack. They would even make an impressive appetizer for your spooky gatherings served with my spider sausage rolls and mummy hotdogs.

Two slices of toast topped with tomato, mozzarella eyeballs, and olives arranged to look like skull faces, placed on a cutting board with plastic spiders and ghost decorations nearby.

Recipe Tip

For a different version, make a ghost toast in the same way, just use black olive slices to make the eyes and mouth.

Halloween Toast Ingredients

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  • Toast: I use halved slices of toasted sourdough.
  • Burrata: The creamier the better.
  • Butter: To crisp up that toast and get it golden.
  • Vine tomato: Or any juicy and sweet medium-sized tomato.
  • Basil: To garnish.
  • Black olives: For the eyes, nose, and teeth details.
  • Seasoning: Flaky sea salt and black pepper.

How to Make a Halloween Toast

Two hands place fresh tomato slices on a piece of toasted bread resting on a wooden cutting board.
  1. Fry the bread in butter in a medium pan on medium-high heat until golden on both sides. Halve the bread and top each with sliced tomato. Season well.
A hand places sliced burrata cheese onto tomato slices on bread, creating a perfect Halloween Toast topped with a fake black spider decoration on the cutting board.
  1. Halve a burrata and top one onto each piece of bread.
Two hands press down on a halved burrataso the soft cheese spills out on top of tomato slices on bread.
  1. Press the middle of the cheese so the soft filling spills out and resembles a skull-shape.
A hand arranges black olive pieces on cheese shaped like a skull over tomato and bread. A plastic spider is in the background.
  1. Add the olive eyes, nose, and teeth details. Top with fresh basil and season well. Serve.

Possible Variations

  • Sourdough: Swap for your favorite sliced bread, plain white, whole meal, or gluten-free toast.
  • Burrata: Sliced mozzarella, cream cheese, goat cheese, even melted cheddar will work.
  • Butter: Olive oil or ghee.
  • Tomato: Cherry tomatoes, grape tomatoes, or a slice of beef tomato.
  • Black olives: Kalamata olives, green olives, or cucumber peel.
  • Add-ins: Try pesto, pickled onions, arugula, avocado, or guacamole.

How to Store Leftovers

Store leftover toast covered in the fridge, and enjoy on the same day.

FAQs

Can I prepare the recipe in advance?

You can cut out the olive details and fry the toast, but wait to assemble until serving for the best fresh taste.

Is this toast suitable for a lunchbox?

Iโ€™d definitely use a firmer cheese in that case. Try mozzarella slices or melted cheddar instead.

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A creative food recipe: toast topped with tomato slices, mozzarella shaped like a skull, black olives for eyes and mouth, and basil leaves. Spooky bites are surrounded by plastic black spiders on a marble surface.
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Servings: 2 people

Halloween Toast

By Sine Siemkowicz
Easy, tasty tomato and burrata toast shaped into a skull for a fun, spooky lunch or snack.
Prep: 13 minutes
Cook: 2 minutes
Total: 15 minutes
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Ingredientsย 

  • 1 slice toast, sourdough
  • 125 grams burrata, 1 ball
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1 vine tomato
  • fresh basil leaves, to garnish
  • 4 black olives
  • sea salt, to taste
  • black pepper, to taste

Instructionsย 

  • Heat a pan on medium-high heat.
  • Add the butter.
  • When the butter is golden and bubbly, top it with a slice of sourdough.
  • Fry until golden on both sides and allow to cool.
  • Halve the bread.
  • Top each half with sliced tomatoes.
  • Sprinkle with flaky sea salt and pepper.
  • Halve the burrata with a broad knife, holding the knife against the inside of the burrata so it doesnโ€™t pour out.
  • Place a halved burrata on top of each toast half.
  • Press the top of the cheese gently, allowing the inside to spread out.
  • Halve olives for eyes.
  • Shape another half olive into the nose, and three strips of olive for the mouth.
  • Top the olive details onto the toast halves.
  • Sprinkle with sea salt.
  • Top with fresh basil.
  • Serve.

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Nutrition

Calories: 261kcal, Carbohydrates: 9g, Protein: 12g, Fat: 23g, Saturated Fat: 13g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 2g, Trans Fat: 0.2g, Cholesterol: 60mg, Sodium: 238mg, Potassium: 165mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 1156IU, Vitamin C: 8mg, Calcium: 356mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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