🌭 Mummy Dogs

Mummy Dogs for kids: the whole recipe

Let's wrap hot dogs in dough bandages and bake a row of friendly mummies! This easy Halloween treat is for ages 6 to 11 (grades 1st–5th), takes about 30 minutes and serves 4. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along, and every hot or sharp step is marked for a grown-up.

Ingredients

• 1 tube of crescent dough
• 4 hot dogs
• 1 teaspoon mustard (optional)

Tools

A cutting board, A butter knife, A baking tray, Baking paper, The oven (grown-up), Oven mitts, A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Grown-up step: A grown-up heats the oven to 375°F and lines a tray with baking paper.
3. Unroll 1 tube of crescent dough on a board and pinch the lines shut.
4. Cut the dough into thin strips with a butter knife.
5. Wrap the strips round 4 hot dogs like bandages. Leave a gap near one end for a face.
6. Wash your hands again: raw dough and hot dogs aren't for licking.
7. Lay the mummies on the tray with space between them.
8. Grown-up step: A grown-up bakes them 12 to 15 minutes, till the dough is golden.
9. Grown-up step: A grown-up takes them out with mitts on. Cool for 5 minutes.
10. Use 1 teaspoon of mustard to dot two eyes in each face gap.
11. Line up your mummy family and say BOO! Then munch.

Safety notes

• Hot! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Cut hot dogs into thin strips the long way, never round coins, for little ones under 4.
• No tasting raw dough or batter: wait till it's cooked.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.

Kitchen science

Crescent dough puffs up in the oven because thin layers of fat inside it melt and make steam that pushes the layers apart.

Make it your own

• Make tiny mummies with little cocktail sausages.
• Dip them in ketchup, mustard or both.
• Use veggie dogs for mummies with no meat.

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