These bacon wrapped smokies with brown sugar make a great appetizer! They are easy to make and can easily be made ahead of time & they freeze well!
These bacon wrapped smokies with brown sugar are so yummy! Adding a hint of cayenne pepper makes them extra amazing!
My mom made these for my kids one day while she was here babysitting… and they LOVED them! So being Grandma, she made a whole entire huge bag of them and froze them for us to just pop into the oven when they wanted a few! Don’t worry though, big kids love these too… perfect with a grainy mustard and a cold beer on game day!
Yep, you can make these bacon wrapped appetizers ahead of time and pop ’em in the freezer. Bake them right from frozen when guests show up at your door (just add an extra 5 minutes to the cook time)!
Things you’ll need for this recipe:
* Toothpicks * Smokies * Bacon * Foil *
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon 1 package
- 14 ounces mini smokies 1 package
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a baking pan with foil.
- Cut Bacon into thirds. Wrap 1 piece of bacon around each mini smokie and secure with a toothpick.
- Combine cayenne pepper and brown sugar and roll each smokie in the mixture. (Note: They can be frozen at this point)
- Place on prepared pans and bake for 10 minutes.
- Flip smokies and cook an additional 10 minutes or until bacon is crispy. (Add an extra 5 minutes if baking from frozen).
Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Appetizer
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These look great!!!! My girls love lil smokies, this will be a nice change over just the BBQ ones. Thanks for posting
These look delicious! I’m pinning and trying this for a great appetizer! Thanks for sharing!
These sound really yummy! Pinning! ~Deborah
these are really good u put a little cyan pepper mmmm
I make these all the time, but make them the night before sprinkle them with brown sugar and put in the fridge. Then bake, there are never any left!!!!
We do these all the time Boy they go fast every time.
I made these the other day for a potluck at my college. I did do mine in the crockpot. What I did first, though, was I wrapped them and put them in a skillet and crisped up the bacon and things first, then tossed them into a crockpot with some homemade peach, vidalia onion and bourbon BBQ sauce. Turned out great! They were a big hit. As for time, I put them in the crockpot on the lowest setting (for me it is “Warm”) overnight. My class is at 6am-10am Monday-Friday, so overnight starting at 9pm was perfect.
Hope that helps! :)
Do you rub the brown sugar on the smokies and then wrap the bacon around it?
No, I wrap the bacon first and then rub the brown sugar on it! Enjoy!
Instead of “rubbing” the sugar on the smokies, get a fine mist water sprayer, give the smokies a couple of spritzes, then have a ziploc bag of brown sugar to shake the smokies in.
Great idea!! So much quicker!
I bet using apple juice instead of water to mist would taste great!!
I will have to try it this way. Seems much easier.
We make these only jus sprinkle all the brown sugar over them and add 1/4 cup say sauce and a 1/4 cup rum. wrap and refrigerate overnight before baking
Looks Delicious!
I came from Menu Planning Monday!
Mika
Do you cook these at all before freezing? Or just prep them and completely cook them from frozen? Thanks for sharing :)
I just prep them and toss them in a Ziploc frozen including raw bacon.
These look scrumptious! Pinned ;) Thanks for sharing!!
WOW these look amazing! Definitely pinning it!
I love these smokey links, they are great for parties. Thank you for sharing.
I usually just wrap them, secure with toothpick, place all in a crockpot, dump in enough brown sugar to coat them all, and let them heat until hot.
How does the bacon cook, much less brown in a crockpot?
In reference to the question, does the bacon cook, and/or brown in a crockpot? Does it? I know that recipe as written specifies oven, but does it work in a crockpot, as Sharon asked? Thanks
I can’t say because I haven’t cooked it that way, but I hope that someone else who has tried it can answer that question.
follow the recipe ,bake in oven ,…after done ,…can keep warm in crockpot ,..we use this Christmas Day
I have been cooking these for years using a crock pot
& they’re delicious! I layer brown sugar, the wrapped smokies then more brown sugar & so on. I do move them around after awhile bc the bottom ones do seem to cook a little more . Can cook on low for several hours or on high for shorter cook times. Delicious & no mess
do u rub the brown sugar on before u rap it in bacon? or after?
You rub the brown sugar after you put the bacon on.
Hi can you tell me what are smokies ???
They are like cocktail weiners usually found near the hot dogs.
Hi Holly, the brown sugar bacon wrap look good; i would like know can i use turkey link sausage and turkey bacon? i don’t eat pork at all. can you please email back to let me know if i can use the turkey sausage link and turkey bacon.
That should work just fine!
These look yummy, thank you for sharing.
Oooh, those look so good!
I’m going to try them today; Super Bowl Sunday.