Easy Pigs in a Blanket Wreath

5 from 7 votes

Cocktail {little smokies} sausages are wrapped in refrigerated pizza dough and baked in a spring form pan to create a wreath shape that has a perfect place in the middle for your favorite dip.

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Total Time50

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 372kcal

Author: June Albertson-Dick

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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