Get ready for an explosion of flavor in your kitchen! Create a delicious and simple-to-make appetizer with our Brown Sugar Bacon Wrapped Smokies. The sweetness of the brown sugar, combined with the saltiness of the bacon and the savory flavor of the cocktail wieners, creates a unique and irresistible combination. Serve this tasty treat with a side of melted butter and get ready to wow your guests.
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🔑 Key to Success #1 – Pick a Pan, Not Any Pan
For these Brown Sugar Bacon-Wrapped Smokies, you’re going to want a 9X13-inch baking dish.
Or you can use a rimmed baking sheet lined with aluminum foil so that the melted butter and sugar don’t drip into your oven.
While you’re cooking the smokies, the juices will start bubbling in the pan so you want to make sure there is enough room to expand without overflowing.
🔑 Key to Success #2 – Use Quality Bacon
For these Bacon-Wrapped Smokies, you’ll want to use high-quality bacon.
I’m a big fan of Wright Brand bacon. It’s thicker-cut bacon and has a really great flavor.
I chose the hickory smoked bacon strips for my Brown Sugar Bacon-wrapped Smokies and they were delicious.
Start by cutting your strips of bacon into thirds.
You want enough bacon to fully wrap around the cocktail wieners.
But not so much that you’ll have a bunch of excess pork hanging over the side.
Wrap a bacon piece around each Lit’l Smokie sausage then secure it with a toothpick.
Make sure you stick the toothpicks in there well so that the bacon doesn’t come loose.
No loose bacon, please.
🔑 Key to Success #3 – Butter Sugar It Up
Combine your melted stick of butter and brown sugar in a small bowl.
You can use a pastry brush to gently brush the butter sugar mixture onto the Bacon-Wrapped Sausages, but I just spoon a little over the top of each one.
Remember how I said the juices will bubble up in the pan?
When this happens, the sausages will get nice and happy in all the sweet, buttery goodness.
🔑 Key to Success #4 – Crispy Up The Bacon
After the Brown Sugar Bacon-Wrapped Smokies are baked, I like to turn on the broiler in my oven for a few minutes to really crisp up the bacon.
You have to be really careful and watch them closely so that the sugar doesn’t burn.
It’ll only take about 3-5 minutes under the broiler before your appetizers are done.
I hope you made enough because these will not last long at your party.
Please give this recipe and try and let us know what you think in the comments. I hope you’ll love it as much as we do.
Did you know that you can make Bacon-wrapped Smokies in the Air Fryer? We have a great recipe for that!
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Brown Sugar Bacon-Wrapped Smokies
Ingredients
- 1 pkg 12 oz Hillshire Farms Beef Lit’l Smokies Smoked Sausages
- 1 pkg 1.5 lb Wright Brand Hickory Smoked Bacon
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 1 cup light brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cut bacon into thirds. Wrap each Lit’l Smokie with a piece of bacon and secure with a toothpick. Place bacon-wrapped smokies in a single layer in glass or metal baking pan.
- In small bowl, combine melted butter and brown sugar. Spoon brown sugar mixture over each bacon-wrapped sausage in the baking pan.
- Bake 20 minutes. Turn oven to broil and broil 3-5 minutes until bacon crisps up.
Betsy
Tuesday 21st of December 2021
Kick ass! Soo delish, will be gone in a moment at any gathering!