When it comes to making dinner for your family, you likely want it to be as yummy as possible. After all, when your family actually sits down for a meal together, you want them to enjoy what is on the plate in front of them. Something else to consider, however, is that a meal should be a lot of fun as well. That is where these pretzel woven hotdogs come in.
This is not only a lot of fun for a midafternoon snack or for lunch time, it can even be a lot of fun for a big group at dinner time as well. You use premade dough, so that makes it easy and you just weave the hotdogs together and pop it in the oven. Before you know it, everybody is going to be enjoying something that is not only delicious, it’s a lot of fun to eat.
Ingredients:
1 package Pillsbury pizza dough
8 hot dogs
1 tablespoon butter, melted
Coarse salt
Ketchup or mustard for serving
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375°F. Roll out Pillsbury dough on a lightly floured surface into a long rectangle at least 14 inches long and 8-10 inches wide. Use a sharp knife to cut the dough into five long strips.
Transfer the strips to a baking sheet that has been lightly oiled. Fold back every other strip. Place a hot dog on the flat strips, then place the folded strips back over the hot dog, starting a weave pattern. Next, fold back the other strips over the hot dog and place a second hot dog down. Continue to weave all eight dogs into the bread in this fashion.
When all the hot dogs are woven into the dough, trim off any extra dough from the edges and try to space out the dough evenly over each dog. Then brush with melted butter and sprinkle with coarse salt to give the bread a pretzel taste.
Bake the weave at 375°F for 25 minutes until it’s perfectly browned.
Let the weave cool for 5 minutes and then chop it into eight squares. Serve with ketchup and/or mustard.