Halloween Baked Pasta
This simple Halloween Baked Pasta is full of flavor and so much fun to make with the kids for Halloween dinner!
Ingredients
- 1 package rigatoni pasta
- 4 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon basil
- 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- 10-15 pieces black olive slices
- 3-4 slices of mozzarella
Instructions
- Cook the Rigatoni in a large pot of salted, boiling water. Cook it about 1 minute less than the package directions so it is still hard enough to stand up.
- Drain the pasta and rinse under cold water. Toss pasta with 1 Tablespoon of oil to prevent it from sticking.
- Using your hands, stand each tube of rigatoni up in the pan in a single layer covering the entire base of the pan.
- Mix cream cheese, ricotta cheese and cream cheese in a bowl.
- Spread over the pasta using a spatula. Make sure the cheeses go through the pie holes.
- In a bowl, mix the grated tomato, salt, pepper and basil thoroughly. and drizzle over pasta.
- Finally, sprinkles of the grated mozzarella.
- Bake in a 400F oven for 15-20 minutes.
- Cut the mozzarella slices with the help of a round mold.
- Put the olive slices on them and place them on the pasta, forming ‘eyeballs’.
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