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Halloween is more than just dressing up in costumes, hitting up parties, watching scary movies, or going trick-or-treating. Why not start the fun with some delicious Halloween-themed foods? These Halloween mummy breakfast rolls are so cute. If you are looking for creepy Halloween breakfast ideas, you have to try these. With refrigerated pizza dough, cheese, eggs, sausage, bacon, and a few other items, you can make these tasty breakfast rolls that resemble mummies complete with candy eyeballs and fake blood!
Treat the whole family to Halloween mummy breakfast rolls this Halloween. They’re savory and flavorful, loaded with eggs, sausage, cheese, bacon, and more.
More hearty breakfast ideas include sweet Bisquick blueberry muffins, tasty sausage breakfast burritos, and hearty breakfast sliders.
Why You’ll Love It
Fun for Halloween: Halloween-inspired food is never boring and these breakfast mummies are not that! Just imagine how much everyone is going to love these spooky breakfast bites!
Everyone’s favorite breakfast ingredients: Bacon, sausage, cheese, eggs – those are just a few of the mouthwatering breakfast/brunch ingredients in these mummies.
A speedy meal: You can make these from scratch and bake them to golden brown perfection in just half an hour.
Halloween Breakfast Mummy Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Refrigerated pizza dough: A versatile ingredient. It’s always worth keeping a can of this in the refrigerator.
Cheddar cheese: Or your favorite kind of cheese.
Scrambled eggs: For protein and flavor.
Breakfast sausage and bacon: You can use one or the other, or both!
Candy eyeballs: To decorate them.
Hollandaise sauce: Complements the breakfast ingredient flavors.
Red food coloring: To give your hollandaise sauce the look of blood!
How to Make Halloween Breakfast Mummies
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Prepare the refrigerated dough: Roll out the dough and cut it into 6 pieces.
Add the fillings: Top the dough pieces with cheese, egg, sausage, bacon, and another piece of cheese.
Shape the mummies: Snip the dough edges with kitchen scissors or a sharp knife to look like a fringe and crisscross these mummy strips over each other to resemble mummy bandages. Make holes for adding the eyes later.
Bake them: Arrange them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and brush with melted butter, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper. Bake until deep golden brown on top, then cool for a few minutes.
The finishing touches: Push 2 candy eyeballs (these work well!) into each cooked mummy where you make the eye holes. Add enough red food coloring to the warm hollandaise sauce to make it bright red, then serve immediately.
Substitutions and Variations
Gluten-free option: If you want an equally delicious gluten-free version, use gluten-free pizza dough.
A sweet version: Swap the refrigerated dough for cinnamon roll dough to make mummy cinnamon rolls. If you’re doing this, swap the cheese, eggs, sausage and bacon for chocolate chips, apple butter, chopped fruits or berries, the garlic powder, salt and pepper for cinnamon and sugar, and the red-colored hollandaise sauce for strawberry syrup and powdered sugar or black icing.
Crescent roll dough: Because crescent rolls are smaller, you’ll have less dough, so the mummies will be smaller. Also, you won’t need to brush the garlic butter on top because crescent roll dough is already buttery.
Different fillings: Swap half the shredded cheese for cream cheese or swap the bacon and sausage for chopped portobella mushrooms. Sundried tomatoes and sliced jalapenos are other ideas for the filling.
The eyeballs: Instead of candy eyeballs, you can use a small round of fresh mozzarella with a sliver of black olive to make each eye.
Serving Suggestions
Creepy brunch bites: Pair your Halloween mummies with Jack-o-Lantern stuffed peppers, Halloween pancakes, or Halloween bruschetta.
Spooky breakfast treats: Serve up some spooky Snickers treats or white chocolate candy bark.
Haunted sips: How about some apple cider punch or pumpkin spice coffee?
How to Store
Store: Keep leftovers in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Freeze: Freeze them for up to 2 months.
Thaw: Defrost it in the refrigerator overnight.
Reheat: You can warm them back up in a warm oven or in the microwave. Swap out the candy eyeballs for fresh ones.
Top Tips
Secure the strips: It’s important to secure the thin strips of dough underneath the mummies so they stay wrapped.
Best hollandaise sauce: This hollandaise sauce comes in a packet mix and it’s easy, tasty and dyes well with the red food coloring.
Follow the pictures: The instructions for making Halloween mummies are much clearer when you follow the photos, so you can see exactly how to form the mummies.
Adding the faux blood: Serve it on the side in a small jug or drizzle it over with a squeeze bottle.
Mummy Halloween Breakfast Rolls FAQs
No, these need to be added before serving. If you’re storing leftover mummies, you’ll find the eyeballs bleed and go mushy, so swap them for new ones before serving.
Yes, bake them until light golden and keep in an airtight container. When ready to serve, bake at 350°F until deep golden brown, add the eyeballs and serve.
Yes, although the creamy buttery flavor of hollandaise is really good with these. If you prefer, you can use a cream gravy or even mayonnaise. Another idea is to use marinara sauce or tomato ketchup – that way you don’t need the red food coloring either.
Halloween Breakfast Rolls Recipe
Halloween Mummy Breakfast Rolls
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Can refrigerated pizza dough, 13.8 Ounces can
- 1¾ Cup cheddar cheese, shredded
- 8 eggs, scrambled
- 9 Ounces breakfast sausage, cooked and crumbled
- 12 Ounces bacon, cooked and chopped
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- 1 Teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ Teaspoon salt
- ¼ Teaspoon black pepper
- 12 candy eyes
- 1½ Cups hollandaise sauce, warm
- food coloring, Red, a few drops
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 380 degrees F.
- Roll out the pizza dough on a clean surface to be roughly 18” x 12”.
- Cut the dough lengthwise in half, then make 2 even cuts horizontally so that you have 6 equal pieces.
- In the center of each piece of dough, layer cheese, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, bacon, and a bit more cheese.
- Using a clean pair of kitchen shears, snip all the edges around each square of dough, about every ¼” to ½” or so, and about 1” deep. It will look like a fringe when done.
- Crisscross all the pieces by gently stretching over the top of the layered toppings then pinching to secure the loose ends underneath the bottom of the dough on the opposite side. Continue to do this until all the dough has been crisscrossed and your mummy has taken shape.
- Pick one end of each mummy to be the head. About an inch down from the top. Use your kitchen shears to slice, or your fingers to pull an opening where the eyes will go after the mummies have baked.
- Place the mummies on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- In a small microwave safe bowl, melt the butter with the garlic powder, salt and pepper. Once melted, mix well, then gently and generously brush the mummies all over with this mixture.
- Bake in the preheated oven for approximately 10 to 15 minutes. The mummies are done when the tops are deep golden brown. Remove from the oven and let cool for a couple minutes.
- Place 2 eyeballs in the empty space that you created for the eyes before baking, and place your finished mummies on your serving platter or plates.
- Just before serving add the food coloring to the warm hollandaise sauce, you can start with about 8 drops of food coloring and add more to reach the desired color.
Notes
Best hollandaise sauce: You can find hollandaise sauce that comes in a packet mix and it’s easy, tasty and dyes well with the red food coloring.
Follow the pictures: The instructions for making Halloween mummies are much clearer when you follow the photos, so you can see exactly how to form the mummies.
Adding the faux blood: Serve it on the side in a small jug or drizzle it over with a squeeze bottle.
Nutrition
Looking for something fun and spooky to dish up this Halloween? Don’t forget about breakfast – the most important meal of the day! These Halloween mummy breakfast rolls with candy eyes are super cute. Add some plastic spiders or gummy worms before serving to make them extra-creepy! The kids will love these and so will the grownups. Using Pillsbury refrigerated dough is a handy shortcut.
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
Not only was this fun to make, but it was equally delicious and fun to enjoy!
I tested these out (without the hollandaise sauce) and they were a hit! I think I will try some with canned Crescent Rolls next time.