Kid approved, this Easy Pigs in a Blanket recipe bakes these mini blanket-wrapped cocktail franks into a pull-apart ring that is an easy appetizer for serving as finger food at a party or for snacks to enjoy at Happy Hour! It should only take about 20 minutes of prep time and 20 minutes of cook time.
If you enjoy quick and easy kid friendly appetizers, you might also like to try my easy salami appetizer and my corn dog muffins.
When I think of the best scenario in which to serve this comfort food appetizer, I think of a gathering of relatives, after-school snacking, movie night, happy hours with friends, lazy Sundays, or Super Bowl! Serve Easy Pigs in a Blanket along with my bacon wrapped tater tots, a gooey chili-cheese dip and some easy taco salad cups for the best selection of comfort food goodies! This is a simple recipe to make with easy-to-find ingredients.
Ingredients needed:
- Mini Cocktail Franks: Look for these near the hot dogs in your market. They might also be called, Mini Cocktail Sausages, Little Smokies, Lil’ Smokies or Beef Cocktail Wieners. Alternately, you can cut full size hot dogs into 4 smaller chunks. Another fun substitute would be to use maple breakfast sausage.
- Crescent Rolls: Look for these near the refrigerated cinnamon rolls in your market. They’re sold in a refrigerated tube. Alternately, you can use refrigerated biscuit dough, pizza crust dough or puff pastry.
- Dijon Mustard: This is going to add some tangy flavor to pigs in a blanket!
- Butter: Salted butter is what you need. Alternately, you can use olive oil.
- Seasoning: Italian Seasoning and garlic powder.
How to make Easy Pigs in a Blanket:
Unroll the crescent roll dough onto a work surface and brush the whole thing with Dijon mustard. Then pull apart the pre-scored crescent triangles and cut them in half lengthwise to make two skinnier triangles. Place a cocktail frank on the long side of the triangle and roll it up.
Place the rolled-up piggies in two concentric circles with all of the piggies touching each other.
Topping ideas for Pigs in a Blanket:
- Brush a mixture of melted butter, Italian seasoning and garlic powder on top.
- Brush the top with egg wash or butter and then sprinkle with Everything Bagel seasoning or flaky sea salt.
- If you’d just like them to be plain on top to satisfy picky eaters, brush melted salted butter on top before baking.
And then they’re ready for the oven! If you are making them ahead and would like to wait to bake later, just wrap them with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to bake. If baking right away, they’ll bake for about 20 minutes.
They bake all snuggled up next to each other, and will stick together slightly. When serving, people can just pull them off the platter. They’ll pull away easily.
And there you have it- lovely, buttery, flaky dough wrapped mini hot dogs. These are an indulgent treat that everyone loves.
Suggested Additions:
- Add a strip of bacon or a piece of cheese to the little sausage before covering with the crescent dough.
- Pickle lovers can add a thin strip of dill pickle to the sausage before covering with the dough.
Eat these easy pigs in a blanket plain, or offer regular mustard, honey mustard, barbecue sauce, cheese sauce or ketchup for dipping sauces. If you like making recipes with these little cocktail franks, you might also enjoy my Easy Lil’ Smokies recipe and these bacon wrapped little smokies. Enjoy!
Easy Pigs in Blanket
Ingredients
- One 12-ounce package cocktail franks
- Two 8-ounce tubes refrigerated crescent dough
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375℉. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Unroll the crescent dough, lay it on a work surface and brush it with mustard. Cut each triangle in half lengthwise to create two skinnier triangles.
- Place one frank on each wide end of the dough, then roll up and arrange on prepared sheet in two concentric circles, making sure the dough on both circles touches.
- Combine the melted butter with the Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Brush the butter mixture on the pigs in blankets. Bake until golden brown, 18 to 22 minutes. Serve with ketchup and mustard.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
i want to try for super bowl
I make this every year for our breakfast with Santa and it’s always a hit with the kids and adults!
Recipe is delicious! These were a total hit!