Mummy Dogs
A light and fluffy breadstick dough wrapped around hot dogs make the perfect Halloween dinner!
Ingredients
- 2 cups warm water (as warm as baby's bath water)
- 1 Tablespoon instant yeast
- 3 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 3 Tablespoons olive oil or any neutral-flavored oil
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- 5-6 cups all purpose flour
- 16 packaged hot dogs
- 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter, softened or melted for the baking sheet
Instructions
- To a stand mixer with a dough hook, add the warm water (as warm as a baby’s bathwater so as not to kill the yeast).
- Add the instant yeast, granulated sugar, oil, salt, garlic powder, basil and oregano.
- Using the dough hook, add the flour a cup at a time until the dough comes together in a ball and pulls away from the sides of the bowl. Take a pinch of dough and roll it into a ball. It should leave a little residue on your fingers but roll it into a ball. If it doesn’t roll into a ball, continue adding flour a Tablespoon or so at a time until it does. If you over flour the dough, you can add a little bit of water back in and mix it, though this should be a last resort. Check out this post for readiness of the dough if you have more questions.
- Let the dough rest in the bowl for 10 minutes.
- After resting for 10 minutes, separate the dough into 16 equal pieces and open a package of hot dogs (you need 16 total).
- Butter two large baking sheets (my favorite here, affiliate link) with 2 Tablespoons of softened butter per sheet. I just plop it down on the sheet and use my hands to coat the pan in butter.
- Roll each piece of dough into a long rope. Take a hot dog and starting at the end of the hot dog, wrap the dough around the hot dog, leaving a small gap for the eyes. Pinch the dough together at the end of the hot dog and place on the baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining 15 hot dogs.
- Cover the mummy dogs and let rest in a warm place for about 20 minutes for a quick rise. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- After twenty minutes, bake the mummy dogs in the oven for about 15 minutes until lightly golden on top.
- Add two dots of ketchup or mustard for the eyes and enjoy immediately.
Notes
I often halve the number of hot dogs used in this recipe and make 8 mummy dogs and 8 breadsticks. Twist the breadstick dough, place on a baking sheet and bake for the same amount of time. Sprinkle with cheese or extra melted butter when they come out of the oven.
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