Garlic, Cheese & Sausage Bites

Found this recipe and could not wait to try it. Posted it to save it. Source: bethnnates-sweetlife.blogspot

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 24
• Yields: 24 bites

Ingredients

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 6  ounces  spicy  Italian turkey sausage or 6  ounces  spicy Italian pork sausage
• 1  head garlic
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons  chopped garlic
• 1  pinch garlic powder
• 1  pinch  garlic salt
• 1  pinch black pepper
• 1  pinch  red chili pepper flakes
•  splash olive oil
• 24  wonton wrappers
•  nonstick cooking spray

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375. Cut the top off the head of garlic and place it on a baking sheet covered with foil and pour olive oil over it. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until golden brown and cloves are soft & mushy. (this can also be done in the toaster oven :O)
2. Cut the raw sausage open and throw away the sausage casing, brown the sausage in a skillet until completely cooked.
3. Chop 1-2 cloves raw garlic, about 1 1/2 teaspoons.
4. In a large bowl combine cooked sausage, cream cheese, roasted garlic, raw garlic a pinch of red chili flakes, and seasoning- I just shook in a bit of the garlic powder, garlic salt, & pepper (probably around 1/4 tsp each, maybe a bit more) and mix with a hand held electric mixer until all ingredients are well combined.
5. Spray a mini-muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. Add a won-ton wrapper one cup of the muffin tray and fill with about 1 to 1 1/2 Tbsp of the garlic cheese mix. Pinch the won ton wrapper together to seal, then spray with non-stick cooking spray, repeat until the whole tin is full of lil' garlic bites!
6. Bake at 375 for about 30 minutes or until they are golden brown and gorgeous!
7. The tops will open up a bit- but I thought they were reminiscent of little garlic cloves and was happy with how they came out.