Description
Festive pigs in a blanket wreath delights holiday guests with its circular presentation. Crispy crescent-wrapped sausages create a cheerful centerpiece you’ll love serving at winter celebrations.
Ingredients
Scale
- 24 mini cocktail sausages
- 2 cans (8 oz/226 g) refrigerated crescent roll dough
- 1 egg (beaten)
- 2 tbsps sesame seeds or poppy seeds (optional)
- fresh rosemary sprigs (for decoration)
- ½ cup honey mustard or favorite dipping sauce
Instructions
- Dough Preparation: Unfurl crescent dough and subdivide each triangle into three compact wedges, creating ideal sausage-wrapping canvases.
- Sausage Encasement: Nestle each miniature sausage at the wide triangle base, rolling smoothly toward the pointed tip with precision, ensuring a taut and complete coverage.
- Wreath Configuration: Arrange wrapped sausages in a circular pattern on a parchment-lined baking sheet, positioning morsels intimately to form a cohesive festive wreath with minimal gaps.
- Glazing Process: Lavish the assembled wreath with an egg wash, generating a lustrous golden exterior that promises visual and textural allure, optionally embellishing with sesame or poppy seed sprinkles.
- Thermal Transformation: Introduce the wreath into a preheated 375F (190C) oven, allowing 20-25 minutes of thermal alchemy to transmute the pastry into a bronzed, crisp delicacy.
- Presentation Finale: Extract from oven, permit brief cooling, then artfully garnish the wreath’s perimeter with delicate rosemary sprigs, strategically positioning a complementary honey mustard or preferred dipping sauce in the central cavity, inviting immediate indulgence.
Notes
- Precision Dough Cutting: Slice crescent dough triangles evenly to ensure uniform sausage wrapping and consistent baking.
- Tight Rolling Technique: Wrap sausages snugly without stretching dough to prevent gaps and maintain a neat, compact appearance.
- Golden Brown Monitoring: Watch carefully during last 5 minutes of baking to prevent over-browning and maintain perfect pastry color.
- Seed Variation Hack: Experiment with different seed toppings like everything bagel seasoning for extra flavor complexity and crunch.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Appetizer, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 7
- Calories: 220
- Sugar: 1 g
- Sodium: 640 mg
- Fat: 14 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 6 g
- Cholesterol: 20 mg