Elevate your favorite appetizer to a pull apart recipe with a few simple steps that anyone can do. This Easy Pigs in a Blanket Wreath is the perfect dish for any occasion and is sure to impress everyone.
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Why this Recipe Works
Can we agree that everyone loves pigs in a blanket? Of course they do! So transforming it into an elegant appetizer for any occasion is even better.
Using easy to find and convenient refrigerated pizza crust dough for the outside layer speeds up the process, just like in this Mini Deep Dish Pizza recipe.
Being able to customize the inside of the appetizer wreath with any flavor of cocktail sausage allows you to be creative.
A quick layer of garlic butter helps everything come together into a jaw dropping hors d’oeuvre that can be served during a football game or a holiday celebration.
This versatile and delicious party dish will quickly become a staple recipe and so will these Jalapeño Popper Crescent Bites.
What you need to make this Recipe
- Refrigerated Pizza Crust: Using refrigerated pizza crust allows you to unroll it and start cutting without an extra step.
- Cocktail Sausages: Be sure to get a good quality sausage because it is the most prominent flavor of the dish.
- Garlic Powder: Added to the melted butter to give the pizza crust a garlic bread feel.
See recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Substitutions and Additions
- Use refrigerated crescent roll dough instead of pizza dough.
- Cocktail sausages come in a variety of flavors. Change it up by adding cheddar filled, polish sausage or turkey sausage.
- Instead of keeping the seasonings limited to garlic, try using Everything But the Bagel seasoning, like these Everything Pigs in a Blanket.
- Serve with your favorite dipping sauce. I suggest bbq sauce, ranch, honey mustard or ketchup.
How to make a Pigs in a Blanket Wreath
1. Take the refrigerated pizza crust out of the tube and place onto a flat surface, cut into 35-38 pieces. Combine melted butter and garlic powder in a small bowl. Brush it onto the pizza crust rectangles with a pastry brush.
2. Take each Little Smokies Sausage and wrap it in a pizza crust rectangle. Continue until all of the sausages have been wrapped.
3. Spray a springform pan with nonstick spray and place a heat resistant bowl in the middle {spraying the outside with nonstick spray}. Place the wrapped sausages vertically between the outside ring and the bowl so that they are touching but not tight.
4. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 35-40 minutes or until the pizza dough is cooked through and golden brown. To serve, remove the outside ring of the spring form pan and add your favorite dip to the bowl in the middle.
Expert Tips
- Be sure to spray the inside of the springform pan and the outside of the heat resistant bowl. This will ensure that nothing sticks and it turns out nicely.
- Use thin pizza crust dough. The thin crust wraps easily around the sausages.
- Count the amount of little smokies sausages in your package before cutting the pizza dough. This will allow you to get an accurate number for how many rectangles you need to cut. Packages of cocktail sausages come with between 35-38 sausages.
- Use a pizza cutter to cut the pizza dough into rectangles. It makes this step go very quickly.
- Don’t skip the garlic butter. This adds another element of flavor that everyone will love.
- If you feel like the outside or tops of the dish are getting too dark but not quite cooked through, cover the top with foil for the remaining cooking time. This will allow the inside to continue baking without the top getting any darker.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, you can make these pigs in a blanket ahead of time. To do so, prepare the recipe completely, cool and refrigerate. Reheat in a 325 degree oven for 15-20 minutes or until heated through.
Absolutely. If cocktail smokies are not available {or you don’t like them} you can use hot dogs by cutting them down into smaller pieces.
If you don’t have a springform pan then a 9″ pie plate can be used. Instead of removing the outside ring to serve, you can serve the wreath in the plate.
One of the best parts about this sausage pastry is that it goes well with anything. So the possibilities are endless.
I would suggest serving it with a Jalapeño Popper Cheese Ball, Cowboy Salsa and Buffalo Chicken Tortilla Wraps.
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Easy Pigs in a Blanket Wreath
Ingredients
- 1 tube refrigerated pizza dough {I used thin crust}
- 14 ounces cocktail sausages
- 2 tbsp butter {melted}
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce {or dip of choice}
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Prepare springform pan, by placing an oven proof bowl in the middle of the pan and generously spraying the pan and outside of the bowl with nonstick spray.
- On a lightly floured surface and unroll tube pizza of dough. Using a knife or pizza cutter, cut into 35-38 rectangles {depending on how many sausages are in your 14 ounce package}. Combine melted butter and garlic powder, spread generously onto each rectangle using a pastry brush {or spoon}.
- Wrap each cocktail sausage into a piece of dough. Once all of the sausages have been wrapped, begin to place them vertically into the prepared pan. You want them to be snug but not super tight.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes. Remove from the oven, allow to cool for about 5 minutes. Remove the outside ring of the springform pan, fill the bowl with your dip of choice.
- Serve your pigs in a blanket wreath and enjoy!
Notes
- Don’t skip spraying the bowl and springform pan with nonstick spray.
- Use thin pizza crust dough. Thinner crust wraps around the sausage easily.
- Count the amount of little smokies sausages in your package before cutting the pizza dough. This will allow you to get an accurate number for how many rectangles you need to cut. Packages of cocktail sausages come with between 35-38 sausages.
- Use a pizza cutter to cut the pizza dough into rectangles. It makes this step go very quickly.
- Don’t skip the garlic butter. This adds another element of flavor to the appetizer.
- If you feel like the outside or tops of the dish are getting too dark but not quite cooked through, I suggest covering the top with foil for the remaining cooking time.
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