Pigs in a Blanket (From Scratch)

MommyMakes's Note:

For anyone who has ever been out of crescent dough during an emergency....

• Total Time: 33 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 13 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 18 pigs in ...

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into small pieces
• 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 18 miniature hot dogs

Directions:

1. Heat the over to 400ºF. Grease a large baking sheet. Sift the dry ingredients (flour through salt) into a mixing bowl (or dump them in one at a time, whatever).
2. Rub the butter pieces into the dry ingredients until mixture is crumbly. Stir in cheese until evenly distributed.
3. Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk. Stir well with a wooden spoon. Let the dough sit for 3 minutes.
4. Sprinkle the dough with flour and stir once or twice then turn out onto a well floured counter.
5. With floured hands, pat the dough into a 15 by 7 inch rectangle, trimming the sides if necessary to get a true rectangle. (Handle the dough as little as possible for tenderness, yeah right).
6. Using a pizza cutter, slice the rectangle into thirds horizontally then slice each third into thirds vertically, this will give you 9 small rectangles. Slice each rectangle diagonally into two thin triangles.
7. One at a time, roll up the sausages in the triangles. Place pointy side down on greased cookie sheet.
8. Bake for 12 to 13 minutes, until golden brown. Cool on the sheet for 3 minutes then tranfer to a wire rack.

Reviews

[Jimbocous]

OK, so a few changes I made:
1) No buttermilk so I used 1 percent milk instead,
2) Due to 1) above, skipped the baking soda (not needed to cut the acid),
3) Used shortening instead of butter,
4) Skipped the cheese,
5) Added a tad of water to get the dough consistency right (and to compensate for lack of water in shortening and high altitude),
6) Used a rolling pin, just because I finally found it!
I halved the recipe, and this was a good amount of dough for 3-4 full-sized hot dogs. Maybe it was the size of the dogs, or ??, but to get them as brown as I wanted took quite a bit longer than 13 minutes. I should have rolled the dough thinner!
Having said all that, great recipe. Definitely akeeper for the next time I get a craving!

[secretbeans]

I can't believe how many Pigs in Blanket "recipes" called for pre-made dough. Do people really need a "recipe" to figure that out? Anyway, this one was perfect- I was surprised at how good the dough was for being so simple. I didn't roll/cut my dough out or anything- my son and I just pulled a good "chunk" off for each little veggie dog, and it worked fine. Nice flaky layers!

[DeniseR]

This was definitely a great starter recipe, but the only problem was I think it needed a bit more flour. My dough was very wet and difficult to manipulate so I had to add more flour then it worked fine. They were still a hit though!