Mummy Hot Dogs are the perfect Halloween appetizer. So adorably cute and perfectly delicious, these mummy dogs are just the finger food you serve before trick-or-treating.
Mummy Hot Dogs
These mummy hot dogs are a fun main meal or appetizer and are a perfect holiday meal (and right before these Melting Snowman Chocolate Balls are charming!) any night in October.
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Here is what ingredients you need to gather to get started:
INGREDIENTS
- hot dogs – full size
- Pillsbury crescent rolls
- mustard for the eyes
Using a crescent roll as a bun, you can wrap up your dog into a bite sized mummy that will delight kids and adults alike! Another awesome and complimentary recipe to serve up for the Halloween holiday is this Mozzarella Eyeball Tray!
Mummy Dog TIPS
- The trick for these will be to cut small/thin strips of crescent dough and to pull it so it’s stretched out and even thinner. Otherwise, it’s a bread item and will puff up.
- I used 2 crescent rolls for 4 hot dogs, so the entire package of rolls would need 16 hot dogs. I put that in my ingredient list.
- It probably takes at least 10-15 minutes to cut and roll all of those hot dogs.
- If you don’t have a pastry cutter as shown you can use a pizza cutter.
How to Assemble Hot Dog Mummies
How to Assemble Hot Dog MummiesThis mummy hot dog is so easy to make! Its quite simple, with only 3 ingredients, and very little prep for a big foodie reward.
To get started, as is with all cooking, preheat oven to 375 and line a baking pan with parchment paper
.
Use a paper towel to dry hot dogs if wet.
Use a pastry cutter
or pizza cutter
to cut each crescent triangle into thin strips.
Pull and stretch the strips before wrapping them around each hot dog.
As noted under the mummy dog tips section, this allows the mummy portion to stay FLAT on the dogs rather than puffing up like a roll!
Do you best to keep the seams of the dough on the back of the dog and tuck any loose dough under the back/bottom of the hot dog.
Leave a small opening in your wrapping for eyes.
Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown.
Let cool before using a toothpick dipped into mustard to add eyes (or ketchup for red eyes!)
Serves 16
Are these not the CUTEST Halloween appetizers EVER!!
You could also make mini mummy dogs by cutting in half or using small sausage links.
Mummy Hot Dogs with Crescent Rolls
Mummy Hot Dogs are the perfect Halloween appetizer. So adorably cute and perfectly delicious, these mummy dogs are just the finger food you serve before trick-or-treating. Using a crescent roll as a bun, you can wrap up your dog into a bite sized mummy that will delight kids and adults alike!
Ingredients
- 16 regular length hot dogs
- 1 package, 8 rolls, crescent rolls
- mustard
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 and line a baking pan with parchment paper.
- Use a paper towel to dry hot dogs if wet.
- Use a pastry cutter or pizza cutter to cut each crescent triangle into thin strips.
- Pull and stretch the strips before wrapping them around each hot dog.
- Do you best to keep the seams on the back and tuck any loose dough under the back/bottom of the hot dog.
- Leave a small opening for eyes.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown.
- Let cool before using a toothpick dipped into mustard to add eyes.
Notes
Head to the recipe for tips on how to roll your dough
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16Serving Size:
16 peopleAmount Per Serving: Calories: 199Total Fat: 15gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 493mgCarbohydrates: 8gFiber: 1gSugar: 1gProtein: 7g
Nutritional information is automatically calculated with ingredients and serving size and may not be accurate. Please always double check with your own nutritional apps as well.
Maartje says
How doe you make the smaller mummy hot dogs’s eyes. They look so cute, with white and a black dot. I could not find that in your recipes. Thanks!
Trisha says
My mummy dogs are just a little mustard on the end of a toothpick – if you are looking for the eyeballs that LOOK like eyeballs, I have used those before and they are in the baking aisle by sprinkles typically. They look like little eyeballs and are really fun for cupcakes and even things like this to dress it up. But they taste like candy.
Jessica says
I made two of these last night as a practice run before Halloween and they turned out perfect! Do you think I can prep a batch a few hours before I bake them?
Trisha says
Jessica, great job making mummy dogs! The only hesitation I have making this ahead is once you break open those crescent rolls, they expand really easily if ANY heat gets to them- even a hot kitchen. So you would need to work super quick and then get in a fridge. What I would recommend is making room in your fridge and putting them on a sheet pan. If you put in a Tupper wear or where they touch each other, the crescents would stick, so as long as you had room and kept them cold, they could be prepped ahead but just take cautions 🙂
Happy Halloween!
Joyce says
Can you serve at room temperature?
Trisha says
yes, I dont see why not.