Bacon Wrapped Smokies

I thought I'd break things up a bit with a "recipe" post. As mentioned in my birthday party dinner post, I had TC prep these the night before. That way, all I had to do was add the last ingredient and turn on the crock pot the next day. She really enjoyed doing this. So much so that I had her do it again a few days later for another occasion...Nice to be able to use my child as slave labor extra help.

It's not like you really "need" a recipe for this. How hard can it be?

Oh yeah, just look at that caramelized bacon!

Bacon Wrapped Smokies
(recipe courtesy of JustJennRecipes)

Ingredients:
1 package of mini sausages (Lil Smokies, cocktail wieners, whatever you call them)
1 lb of bacon
1/2 cup brown sugar

Directions:
Cut the bacon into thirds
Wrap around the sausage and stab with a toothpick so it won't fall off
Throw half into the crockpot then sprinkle 1/2 of the brown sugar
Throw the other half in and top with the remaining brown sugar

Turn the crock pot to high and leave it there for 4 hours.

I made this previously for Super Bowl Sunday. One package definitely wasn't enough and we didn't even have a lot of people over. This was just one batch. I doubled the batch a few days later for another birthday lunch gathering!

The sugar gets all melty and the bacon gets nicely caramelized.  These are so addicting! It's hard to have just one!