Happy Halloween Dear Reader! When I first saw Jenny from Picky Palate’s Mummy Dogs I think I actually giggled and clapped. Yes I do those sorts of embarrassing things. And yes this is why Mr NQN gets embarrassed by my behaviour and asks me not to sing while walking through the shops. Suddenly I’ll be singing and then notice that my hand is no longer clasped in his and he is walking several metres behind hiding his face in his shoulder. I shudder to think that if I become a parent, I’ll be that eccentric lady that embarrasses their children-who am I kidding? I know I will be. However looking at how much I love Halloween, if I don’t raise a little ghoul, then I will be surprised.
What I loved about these Mummy Hot Dogs was how relatively easy they were and how preparing them on the day took less than half an hour. I’m not including the time it makes to make the bread or pizza dough as of course that needs to be done ahead and all the better for a party I say. The less I have to do on the day the better for me.
Jenny’s recipe called for Pillsbury Dough which we don’t get here in Australia so I figured I would make a bread dough. But I was running out of time as I had events galore and things to do on Halloween and I recalled stashing some pizza dough in the freezer for emergency times such as these. I found that one dough round wrapped 4 of these frankfurters in an adequate way with a little left over dough. You could also try this with puff pastry too if you cannot get the pre-made bread dough which comes already rolled out which helps a lot but I found that with puff pastry, there were more joins as the pastry itself comes in a square and it is therefore shorter than the length that you can roll dough.
I know mummies’ wrappings are supposed to be more white than yellowed but I blame the distractedness on the fact that I didn’t hear the timer when it went off. If you watch it like a hawk then you can ensure that yours turn out only mildly yellowed like Jenny’s. Kids, both young and old love the novelty of these and just make sure that you have some tomato sauce…ermm I mean blood ready for them to dip these Mummy Hot Dogs in.
And look out for Monday’s story with a wrap up of my Halloween party! I promise that “normal” transmission will resume after then 
So tell me Dear Reader, what embarrassing habits do you have?
Mummy Dogs
- 24 frankfurt sausages (longer length although I’m sure you could do them with the cocktail ones too)
- Pizza or bread dough or sheets of 4 sheets of premade puff pastry (see recipe below if you are making it from scratch)
- Mustard
1. Preheat your oven to 190c/375F. Place a sheet of parchment on a baking tray. Flour a clean workbench surface and stretch out dough with your hands or with a rolling pin until it is a thinnish but even thickness. Cut into thin strips about 3-4mm wide.
Wrapping the Mummy Dog in puff pastry – as you can see there are more joins
2. Take a frankfurter and wrap it with a length of the dough and then repeat until the frankfurter is wrapped as shown making sure to leave a gap at one end to draw the eyes. Depending on how long you’ve rolled it will depend on how many strips you use but for me, I had 6 balls of dough from the below recipe and each ball of dough wrapped 4 frankfurters with a little left over.
3. Bake on prepared baking tray in oven for 10-15 minutes.
4. Remove from oven and dot mustard as eyes. Serve with bloody tomato sauce.
Basic Pizza Dough
Original recipe taken from “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice” by Peter Reinhart.
Makes 6 pizza crusts (about 9-12 inches/23-30 cm in diameter). Enough to wrap 24-30 frankfurts depending on how well you wrap them.
Ingredients
- 4 1/2 Cups (20 1/4 ounces/607.5 g) Unbleached high-gluten (%14) bread flour or all purpose flour, chilled (I used 3 1/2 cups plain flour and 1 cup of wholemeal flour)
- 1 3/4 Tsp Salt
- 1 Tsp Instant yeast
- 1/4 Cup (2 ounces/60g) Olive oil or vegetable oil (both optional, but it’s better with)
- 1 3/4 Cups (14 ounces/420g or 420ml) Water, ice cold (40° F/4.5° C)
- 1 Tb sugar
- Semolina/durum flour or cornmeal for dusting
DAY ONE
Method:
1. Mix together the flour, salt and instant yeast in a big bowl (or in the bowl of your stand mixer). Place in fridge to chill.
2. Add the oil, sugar and cold water and mix well (with the help of a large wooden spoon or with the paddle attachment, on low speed) in order to form a sticky ball of dough. If you are using an electric mixer, switch to the dough hook and mix on medium speed for about 5 minutes.The dough should clear the sides of the bowl but stick to the bottom of the bowl. If the dough is too wet, sprinkle in a little more flour, so that it clears the sides. If, on the contrary, it clears the bottom of the bowl, dribble in a teaspoon or two of cold water. The finished dough should be springy, elastic, and sticky, not just tacky, and register 50°-55° F/10°-13° C.
3. Flour a work surface or counter. Line a large container (with a lid) with baking paper/parchment on the bottom and side. Lightly oil the paper.
4. With the help of a metal or plastic dough scraper, cut the dough into 6 equal pieces (or larger if you want to make larger pizzas). To avoid the dough from sticking to the scraper, dip the scraper into water between cuts.
5. Sprinkle some flour over the dough. Make sure your hands are dry and then flour them. Gently round each piece into a ball. If the dough sticks to your hands, then dip your hands into the flour again.
6. Transfer the dough balls to the container and brush the tops with oil. Place lid on container.
7. Put the container into the refrigerator and let the dough rest overnight or for up to thee days.
NOTE: You can store the dough balls in a zippered freezer bag if you want to save some of the dough for any future baking. In that case, pour some oil(a few tablespoons only) in a medium bowl and dip each dough ball into the oil, so that it is completely covered in oil. Then put each ball into a separate bag. Store the bags in the freezer for no longer than 3 months. The day before you plan to make pizza, remember to transfer the dough balls from the freezer to the refrigerator.
DAY TWO
8. On the day you plan to eat pizza, an hour or two before you make it, remove the desired number of dough balls from the refrigerator. Dust the counter with flour. Place the dough balls on a floured surface and sprinkle them with flour. Dust your hands with flour and delicately press the dough into disks about 1/2 inch/1.3 cm thick and 5 inches/12.7 cm in diameter. Sprinkle with flour.
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So cute! I love these
I’m making little pastry wrapped chicken sausages for a friends bday/halloween party tomorrow! These are REALLY cute though. I may have to wrap them as you have!
The mustard eyes just take it over the top. Can it stay Halloween for another week? These posts are so entertaining
How adorable!!! AHHH I love them! I still have my leftover sheet of frozen puff dough from the DB challenge… hmm!
I’ve been seeing these mummified hotdogs on magazine covers at the grocery store, but I never got around to making them.
I embarrass my boyfriend by making him talk about his food while he eats it. If he says he doesn’t like something, I always ask why and try to get him to explain how it could be better. It makes him crazy because he just wants to eat his food!
I try to abstain when I’m out dining with friends, but I’m embarrassed to admit that I just can’t help myself sometimes.
They are so adorable. I’m sure they are yummy too. My most embarrassing habit is my laugh. I have this extremely loud laugh that comes out of nowhere. The whole room looks at me as if I did something wrong ehehe.
Happy Halloween Lorraine! I’m sure you and all your guests will have a ball!
I’m not sure I could chomp the head off these little critters, but they still look yum!
oh gosh, those are soooo cute! would be easy to make with the puff pastry, thanks for the idea – i could make these today for Halloween!
I love them, so cute!! Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween Lorraine! You are definitely the queen of all Halloween-related treats!
These are adorable! My embarassing habit is also singing-related…in the car I tend to sing along without even noticing…but the people in nearby cars tend to notice! (And yes, laugh, occasionally!) 
happy halloween! dont worry! i walk around singing all the time! i even catch myself singing at work all the customers giving me weird looks…
I chuckled when I saw these! Thanks for a good laugh!
Oh my! My kids are cracking up over these. I can’t wait to make them.
What a fun idea! I’ll look forward to your Halloween post!
This is the first time I’ve heard you mention children. I’m definitely looking forward to being a Grandmum!
Oh my god the little eyes!!! I think this may be one of my favs of all your Halloween baking ideas. So simple and so cute!
NQN, I love that you so freely share your recipes and creativity! What a quick, clever, yummy and kid-friendly idea. Am making these for the kids tonight. As for embarrassing habits? Not so much habit, but just embarrassing. I am very clumsy and every time I wear high heels I tend to fall over. (Even if I’ve had nothing to drink). Hubby has now banned high heels, but I still defy him on special occasionas!
fantastic – if you become a mum your kids will love your food too much to worry about when you embarrass them
what?! i would LOVE to have a mom like you.
someone who cooks and bakes well..
and sings when walking through shops.
i’d totally sing with ya
and omg i chuckled when i saw those mummy hot dogs!
they’re sooooo cute!!!
Those shall be my dinner tommorow. We’ll have a mummy time, won’t we?
How cute! They look so cool
I saw a piece of cake that reminded me of you and Hallowe’en the other night. I like the way the left hand mummy’s guts are being squeezed out. I think I have lots of embarrassing habits. I can be embarrassingly loud and I laugh a lot.
HAHAHAHA! I’m sorry, Lorraine, these aren’t scary…they’re ADORABLE!!
I love these little guys. Lefty seems to be suffering from some sort of gastrointestinal issues though
I have absolutely no embarrassing habits at all. Nope, not a single one.
theres nothing wrong with being an embarassing singing in public crazy mum! my mum was just like that and i plan to be just the same hehe.
i can see you being a popular mother anyway, i can just imagine all the kids party food haha
anywa y love all the halloween food hope you have a great party!!!
those little eyes seem to be following me around…creepily wonderful! hope your halloween turns out suitably Adams Family-ish!
Love the mustard eyes =) I know the mummies are meant to be scary, but they’re just too cute!
Happy Halloween Lorraine, I just know that your party is going to be a blast. Enjoy and tell us all about it come Monday. Scary Mummy hot dogs are just toooooo cute, I just had to show my daughter Gab and she laughed.
Had to go local for our anniversary tonight, couldn’t get into any desired Sydney restaurant tonight. Recession , what recession??
yes, these are indeed adorable, and good for you for going the extra mile with the made-from-scratch breading. happy halloween!
HAHAHAHA! Couldn’t stop laughing. How cuuuute!!!
These are adorable! I love this idea.
Oooh this are very cute!
Well done on using the pizza dough to wrap the hot dogs, they look great – they actually resemble the texture of bandages even.
Those are too cute! If my brother saw these, he might just drag me into the kitchen to make them =D.
mummy dogs looks scary as well as cute!
Oh they’re so cute! I would’ve never thought of doing this with pastry and sausages… great idea
I think they’re awesome! These go over so well with the kiddies, but I have a feeling adults would love them too!
OH my goodness.. this is just Fabulous… you did a fab, fab job!!!! WOW
hehehe – they look great. Hope you had a fantastic Halloween Lorraine – I’m sure you did.
Hee hee these are soo cutte!! Bet you had another awesome halloween party hee hee ^^!
These are so cute! Hopefully I remember to make them next year!
what a fantastic idea to do that for halloween! really cute,,,kids must love m,,!
Thanks everyone for all of your lovely comments! These disappeared so quickly-I think people love easy to pick up finger food
Sean, I wish it was a Halloween fortnight or a month
Lucy-You are so funny!
Katherine, I’m going to have to watch out for your laugh now!
Faith & Kartini, well you can sing around me, I’d probably join you!
Barbara-oh no is it? Haha!
MrsDesperate, oh no and I bet people think it’s from a tipple but it’s not!
Amy, that cake sounds amazing! Hmm sounds like an idea for next Halloween?
Johanna, felicia & buggy, thanks, perhaps I won’t embarrass them too much!
Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!
xxx
Funny and cool think we should make it .
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