Brown Sugar Bacon Wrapped Weenies Food

BAKED BACON-WRAPPED BROWN SUGAR SMOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Open the packages of bacon and cut the whole slab into thirds across the bacon pieces. I usually cut them straight out of the refrigerator while they're cold, then allow them to warm a bit before wrapping the Smokies - the bacon is more pliable when not very cold, and makes it easier to work with awkwardly-shaped pieces.
• To make assembly even easier, line up pieces of bacon on your cutting board or a clean counter. Wrap each Lit'l Smokie in a 1/3-cut piece of bacon, then secure with a toothpick.
• Lay wrapped Smokies on a sheet pan. Tilting the toothpick downward makes lining them up a bit easier. (If you are making a double or triple batch with a Costco-sized 3-pound package of Smokies, continue wrapping until you run of room on your sheet pan, and then - just to make the overall assembly easier - can continue wrapping until you run out of the Smokies and simply put them in a bowl until you can lay them out on another sheet pan later or when your first one is out of the oven. If you run out of bacon before Smokies, you can cut some strips of bacon lengthwise to make additional slices so that you'll have enough.).
• Sprinkle about 1/4 teaspoon of brown sugar on each Smokie - I simply sprinkle by hand.
• Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven for 45 minutes.
• Using tongs, transfer the treats to a platter or plate, arrange attractively, put them out for your guests, and stand back before you get trampled in the crowd's rush to get at them. :).
• Note: I usually make triple batches of these at a time, using the 3-pound Smokies packages from Costco and three packages of bacon. Although best if served immediately, I bake them all up, then freeze them and thaw and reheat in the oven (or even the microwave) to serve. The bacon and brown sugar doesn't stay as crispy that way, but since most parties will have a varying number of attendees we find it's easier to make large batches during the holidays. Before reheating, you can sprinkle a bit more brown sugar over them to make up for any that fell off. ;).
• Optional: before putting the brown sugar over, you can also sprinkle the Smokies with a small amount of cinnamon sugar, for even more flavor!

BROWN SUGAR BACON WRAPPED WEENIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
• Wrap hot dog pieces in bacon pieces and secure with toothpicks. Arrange on a baking sheet.
• Broil the hot dog pieces until bacon is crisp, turning once or twice, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Transfer to a serving platter.
• Melt butter in a saucepan and stir in brown sugar. Place over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring until brown sugar has dissolved. Serve hot dog pieces with brown sugar sauce drizzled on top.

BACON-WRAPPED COCKTAIL WIENERS

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to 325 F.
• Set a wire rack on top of a cookie sheet.
• Cut the bacon into thirds. Wrap a piece of bacon around a cocktail wieners and put them, cut side down, on the wire rack. Continue until you are out of bacon.
• Sprinkle the brown sugar, generously, on top of the bacon-wrapped mini hot dogs. Place the entire cookie sheet in the oven and bake about 30 minutes until the bacon is crispy.

BACON WRAPPED WEINERS

Steps:

• Line large baking sheet with foil (we don't always do this, but it's easier for cleanup).
• Cut bacon into thirds, resulting in several 3" strips.
• wrap each weiner with bacon, line them loosely in the pan as you go.
• Cover with brown sugar, it'll seem like a lot of sugar, but it cooks down
• Bake 375 for 45 minutes. Broil at the end until top is crisped.
• Hurry and get your share before everyone eats them all!

BACON WRAPPED SMOKIES WITH BROWN SUGAR

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Cut the bacon into thirds and wrap each smokie.
• Place all the wrapped smokies in a single layer in a baking dish.
• Then melt the stick of butter and then 1 cup of brown sugar and stir until mixed well.
• Pour the butter and brown sugar mixture on the smokies and bacon.
• Then take the other cup of brown sugar and sprinkle evenly over the smokies.
• Bake them for about 15-20 minutes and then turn the heat up to 400F for about 5 minutes or longer until the bacon becomes crispy.

BROWN SUGAR SMOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cut bacon into thirds and wrap each strip around a little sausage. Place the wrapped sausages on wooden skewers, several to a skewer. Arrange the skewers on a baking sheet and sprinkle them liberally with brown sugar.
• Bake until bacon is crisp and the brown sugar melted.

BACON-WRAPPED BROWN SUGAR SMOKIES

Steps:

• cut strips in bacon into 1/3's.
• wrap 1/3 cut bacon strips around each lil' smokie and secure with a toothpick.
• place one layer of bacon wrapped smokies in bottom of crockpot.
• cover completely with brown sugar.
• repeat with layer of bacon wrapped smokies.
• repeat layering until you finish w/a layer of brown sugar.
• cook in crock pot approximately.
• 3-4 hours.

BACON WRAPPED SMOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Refrigerate 2/3 of the bacon until needed. It is easier to wrap the wieners with cold bacon. Wrap each cocktail wiener with a piece of bacon and secure with a toothpick. Place on a large baking sheet. Sprinkle brown sugar generously over all.
• Bake for 40 minutes in the preheated oven, until the sugar is bubbly. To serve, place the wieners in a slow cooker and keep on the low setting.

BACON COCKTAIL WEENIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray 9x13 inch cake pan with non stick spray.
• (not neccessary but will definately help with clean up) Open package of bacon and cut entire slab into thirds.
• Wrap a third of a slice of bacon around each cocktail weenie and secure with toothpicks.
• Place each bacon wrapped weenie in cake pan, making sure to crowd them together.
• (You'll want to leave an empty space in one corner of pan for ease of basting.) Liberally cover weenies with brown sugar, leaving only the toothpicks exposed.
• Place weenies in hot oven.
• Every 10 minutes or so, baste weenies with sugar/bacon grease mixture and break up any lumps of sugar.
• Continue until sugar is completely melted and bacon is thoroughly cooked.
• When serving, be sure to drizzle sugar/bacon grease over weenies and on the platter.
• Some people like to swirl their weenies in the syrup before cramming them in their mouths.
• I've never really timed this recipe, but I'm going to guesstimate the time at@30-40 minutes.
• Servings also depend on the crowd you are feeding.
• My crew will argue that 15-20 weenies qualify as a serving!