Sep 05 2023

Celebrate Cheese Pizza Day With The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Today is Nation Cheese Pizza Day! What does that mean? It means we get to celebrate the day with our very own cheese pizza shaped to look like our favorite Ninja Turtle inspired by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (affiliate link)! With just a few simple ingredients a dull normal pizza can go from sad to Cowabunga in no time.

NOTE: I have taken the original Character Cheese Pizza recipe (attached below) and changed it up to be more traditional yet still very fun.

The changes I made are as followed:

  • The original recipe called for eggplant to decorate Donnie and the eyebrows/mouths of each of the ninja turtles. I took eggplant out completely. While some may enjoy it on a pizza, I replaced it with mushroom slices. Traditional and yummy. I also replaced the eggplant mask with a purple cabbage leaf.
  • The original recipe calls for candy eyes. Candy on a pizza is weird. I replaced the candy eyes with sliced black olives.
  • Instead of using red bell peppers for the tongues, I used pepperoni.

Use the recipe below to cook the pizza using the changes I have made. Or click the image at the bottom of this post to get the original recipe and use eggplant

Happy Cheese Pizza Day!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Character Cheese Pizzas

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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Cowabunga snack time.


National Cheese Pizza Day!!

Ingredients

  • 1 can of refrigerated biscuit dough
  • 1 jar pizza sauce
  • 8oz shredded mozzarella cheese
  • Slices of mozzarella cheese for eyes
  • Olives for eyes
  • Assorted food items for creating your own TMNT character masks
  • Red Bell Pepper for Raph
  • Orange Bell Pepper for Mikey
  • Blue Tortilla chip for Leo
  • Purple cabbage leaf for Donnie
  • Pepperoni for tongue
  • Slices of mushrooms for eyebrows and mouth
  • Cornmeal and flour for dusting
  • Round cookie cutter
  • Rolling pin
  • Baking sheet

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Sprinkle some cornmeal on a baking sheet. Roll out the biscuit doughs on a baking sheet. Lay down yor crusts with about 1 inch of space between them
  3. Spread 1-2 TBSP of sauce on each crust
  4. Sprinkle on as much cheese as you want!
  5. Place in oven for 15-18 minutes
  6. Once done, and while the cheese cools, it’s time to make the characters! Take the slices of mozzarella and cut out 8 circles using a round cookie cutter
  7. Mikey – Use an orange bell pepper for the mask and place it on the pizza. Place two round slices of cheese on the mask and place an olive on the round slices. Use sliced mushrooms to make the mouth and the eyebrows, followed by a slice of pepperoni for the tongue.
  8. Raph – Use a red bell pepper for the mask and place it on the pizza. Place two round slices of cheese on the mask and place an olive on the round slices. Use sliced mushrooms to make the mouth and the eyebrows, followed by a slice of pepperoni for the tongue.
  9. Donnie – Use a purple cabbage leaf for the mask and place it on the pizza. Place two round slizes of cheese on the mask and place an olive on the round slices. Use sliced mushrooms to make the mouth and the eyebrows, followed by a slice of pepperoni for the tongue.
  10. Leo – Use blue corn chips for the mask and place them on the pizza. Place two round slizes of cheese on the mask and place an olive on the round slices. Use sliced mushrooms to make the mouth and the eyebrows, followed by a slice of pepperoni for the tongue.
  11. Serve

Original Recipe Below: