The Best Easy-to-Make Halloween Recipe with the Kids!
Halloween is just around the corner, and if you know me, you know I’ll take any excuse to get creative in the kitchen with the family! Holiday baking is such a great family activity, and these Halloween Mummy Hotdogs (one of my favorite Halloween baking ideas) were super easy to make and the kids loved making them.
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. All the colors, the sweet treats and the activities for the kids make it so much fun every year! This past week, we’ve been to the pumpkin patch, carved our pumpkins, Tudor decorated our porch and we’ve done some festive baking (because of course we have!) This week was especially challenging as the power was out for the Sonoma fires, so it felt good to get outside and find activities that didn’t involve wifi or TV! Our power came back on yesterday, so we baked in celebration! We lost all the freezer food and the grocery stores were empty of cold product, except hot dogs!
For our baking we used the Pillsbury Crescent Mummy Dogs recipe which you can find online here.
you will need:
1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated crescent rolls or 1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated Crescent Dough Sheet
2 ½ slices American cheese, quartered (2.5 oz)
10 hot dogs (I used Teton Water’s Ranch Grass Fed Beef hotdogs!)
Cooking spray
Mustard or ketchup
We added googly eyes to ours too!
method
(taken from Pillsbury)
Heat oven to 375°F.
If using crescent rolls: Unroll dough; separate at perforations, creating 4 rectangles. Press perforations to seal. If using dough sheet: Unroll dough; cut into 4 rectangles.
With knife or kitchen scissors, cut each rectangle lengthwise into 10 pieces, making a total of 40 pieces of dough. Slice cheese slices into quarters (1/2 slice cheese, cut in half).
Wrap 4 pieces of dough around each hot dog and 1/4 slice of cheese to look like "bandages," stretching dough slightly to completely cover hot dog. About 1/2 inch from one end of each hot dog, separate "bandages" so hot dog shows through for "face." On ungreased large cookie sheet, place wrapped hot dogs (cheese side down); spray dough lightly with cooking spray.
Bake 13 to 17 minutes or until dough is light golden brown and hot dogs are hot. With mustard or googly eyes, draw features on "face."
All-in-all they take about an hour to prep and make, which would make a great post trick-or-treating activity that doubles as cooking dinner…. win win!
I do a lot of posts on Holiday cooking with my kids like my Mom’s Famous Recipes, Easter Bunny Cakes & Valentines Cookies too - because I think it’s such a great family activity!
What’s your favourite Holiday baking recipe to make with your family? I’d love to know!
