Dogs in a blanket. Dinner or Appetizer....with a holiday twist!

You may have made these little guys before.

This is only my second time. 

I did not know they existed a few years ago... so I'm posting this just in case there are others that have never seen them either.

My kids think this is a super fun food and I wonder why I don't make them more often.

This time we put a little twist on them. 

Not only did we make the dogs in a blanket..... we made mummies.

I have boys... boys like mummies. 

And... it is still close enough to Halloween for it to be a fun thing.

I wanted to make them ON Halloween, but ran out of time to cook at all. 

So here we are on Nov 1st eating Mummies.  

No one in this house seems to care.

These don't have to be dinner... they make a fun appetizer for a party too. 

OR even a good after school snack. 

Ingredients:

-1 pkg  cressent rolls or pillsbury cresent roll sheet (these are a new thing)
- 1 pkg mini hot dogs or sausages  or you could use full size hot dogs and adjust your dough

Directions for the mummies:

Take out two of the cressent triangles and make them into a rectangle by pressing the seams together like this

Cut strips of dough off the long side of the recgangle to wrap around the mummy body.  Start wrapping dough at the middle point of the dog to leave room for the face and a head wrap.

next wrap a piece of dough around the top leaving enough room for a face.
Once you have them all wrapped,place them on a baking sheet (or pizza stone in my case)

 bake them according to package directions (375 for 11-13 minutes)

When they come out, use a toothpick to "paint" the eyes, nose and mouth with mustard.

They are ready to eat!

Now, if you are totally not into the mummy thing you can always make regular ol' dogs in a blanket like this:

Ingredients:
- 1 pkg cressent rolls
- 1 pkg mini dogs or sausages OR regular hotdogs (adjust dough size for large dogs)

Directions for the dogs in a blanket:
Seperate dough into triangles. 
Cut each triangle in half or into 3rds.
Place dog on small triangle piece like this:

And just roll it up so it looks like this:

Place it on a baking sheet and bake according to package directions (375 for 11-13 minutes) and this is the yumminess that you should get!

Review:
We love these.  As a dinner they are more for the kids than for the adults although, our friends made them for our bible study last weekend (as an appetizer)and they were a big hit.  It's just a fun food to make every once in a while!  I'll be honest, it's a little bit of work to make the mummies... but I don't mind a little hard work every now and then.  The dogs, however, take no time at all.

Tips:
I think this is a pretty easy dish, so I don't have much in the way of tips.  If you do make them with full size hot dogs, you can cut them up into bite sized servings and serve them that way so that they aren't so big.  Or, you could add a little cheese under the dough for something different.