Oozing Mummy Dog Family in the House!!

Every year at this time we have a dinner tradition: “Oozing Mummy Dogs”. I have seen plenty of look-alikes floating around television, Pinterest and magazines, but I have never seen the “real dog”. The Oozing Mummy Dog, that is. Now, please don’t burst my bubble and work to prove me wrong! I am sure these have been done somewhere before I started making them — but let me live in my fairytale, please ((haha)).

I came up with these oozing mummy dogs because I imagine there must have been some oozing going on with mummies of long ago. GROSS. As a mom of three boys ((at the time I began making these)), gross was the name of the game – the nastier the story, the better!

Seems fitting for Halloween, don’t you think?

I love making these for the school Halloween parties, and managed to sign up early enough in the year to stake my claim on the main snack for every Halloween party, for almost every boy.

There is a trick for making them to take to a school party. It is an important trick and I am selfishly hesitant to share it with you. But, because it is so essential to ensuring a perfectly crunchy outcome — I will share it.

Pizza boxes, yes – the cardboard pizza boxes are all that stand between you and a perfectly warm, crunchy and oozy mummy dogs.

Local pizzas places ((I have learned)) are more than happy to donate a few unused pizza boxes for school purposes. This is also handy for certain school projects, FYI.

Back to making these oozing mummy dogs. Here are the important steps to follow that will lead you to the perfect oozing mummy:

Try your best to locate Pillsbury Crescent Sheets, not crescent rolls. Sheets are much easier to use because they don’t have diagonal perforations.
Get ALL BEEF hot dogs, little smokies or smoked sausage – cut into 3″ chunks ((I used everything this time – because we were going for an oozing mummy family))
Set up a little work station assembly line with the dogs, crescent sheets and quartered American cheese slices
Use a pizza cutter to cut the crescent sheets into strips
Place a quartered cheese slice on each hot dog ((or little smoke or smoked sausage))
Rap with 2-3 strips of crescent, doing your best to make it look mummy-like. It is important to leave any opening on one end to simulate a face
Bake at 375° on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake until done through: 12 minutes for little smokies, 17 minutes for hot dogs & 19 minutes for smoked sausage pieces

For the faces, I love using packets of mustard and ketchup and just letting kiddos decorate however they want. So now is a perfect time to pull out all of the miscellaneous condiment packets that are clogging up your fridge. Oh, and if you like spice, sriracha is a great “mummy face maker!!

Gracie loved decorating the mummies, but saving them for dinner was another matter!