Pigs in a Blanket (From Scratch)

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

• Ready In: 33 mins
• Yields: 18 pigs in a blanket

Ingredients

• 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 oven 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.