Description
If you have seen recipes for little smokies wrapped in bacon, this recipe takes it a couple steps further. It’s totally worth the extra work and always gobbled up quickly!
Ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) package little smokie sausages
- 1 pound bacon slices, cut into thirds crosswise
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar, divided
- ½ (12 fluid ounce) can cola-flavored carbonated beverage
- ½ teaspoon Chinese five-spice powder
- 1 dash hot pepper sauce, or to taste (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- Wrap each little sausage with 1/3 slice of bacon
- and secure them with toothpicks.
- Place the appetizers on a large baking sheet and sprinkle with 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the sugar is melted and bubbling
- about 40 minutes; turn the appetizers after 20 minutes.
- Remove the appetizers from the baking sheet with a slotted spoon
- and place into a slow cooker. Sprinkle the remaining 3/4 cup of brown sugar and the five-spice powder over the smokies
- and drizzle with the cola. If desired
- add hot sauce to taste.
- Set the cooker to High
- and cook 4 hours. Serve warm.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 4 hrs 40 mins
Total Time: 5 hrs
Servings: 10