Crispy Caterpillar Cocoons
Sausages stuffed with mustard and wrapped in flaky crescent roll dough to look like creepy caterpillar cocoons. A fun, spooky Halloween snack kids love to make and eat.
YIELD
4 servingsPREP
30 minCOOK
40 minREADY
1 hrsHalloween party food doesn’t need to be complicated to get screams of delight from the little ones.
Brown-and-serve sausages get split, filled with a squiggle of mustard, sealed back together, and wrapped in crescent roll dough. When they bake, the dough puffs up around the sausage to create a “cocoon” that’s equal parts creepy and irresistible.
Let the kids help with the wrapping. It’s messy, it’s silly, and they’ll actually eat what they made.
Kitchen Tips
- Cool the sausages fully before handling. Hot sausages soften the dough and make wrapping a slippery mess.
- Use a carrot peeler to scoop the trough down each sausage half. It’s the right width and depth.
- Don’t overfill with mustard. A thin line is all you need. Too much and it squeezes out during baking.
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat the oven according to directions on crescent roll package.
Prepare the sausages according to package directions.
Use tongs to remove the cooked sausages from the frying pan and place them on paper towels.
Allow them to cool fopr 10 to 15 minutes.
Carefully cut the sausages in half lengthwise.
Then use the rounded tip of a carrot peeler to scoop out a long, shallow trough down the length of each half.
Squeeze a thin line of mustard into each through.
Separate the cresent roll dough into its precut triangle pieces, and lay them flat on an ungreased cookie sheet.
To form insect larve, take two sausage halves and, with their mustard sides touching, put them together to form a whole.
Place a whole larve on a baking sheet and bake accoring to package instructions.
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