Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dogs

Why just have hot dogs when you can have cheese-stuffed bacon wrapped hot dogs? A nice change from the norm. There are several recipes online with different versions and different ways of cooking this meal—baking, broiling, deep frying (without the cheese), frying on a griddle, or grilling. Choose whatever works for you.

Ingredients

• 8 hot dogs (whatever brand you prefer)
• ½ cup crumbled cheddar
• 8 slices bacon
• 8 hot dog buns
• Condiments

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425°F.
2. Grease a 13 x 9-inch glass pan or a jelly roll pan.
3. Slice the hot dogs, leaving the last ¼" on both ends and the bottom unsliced.
4. Stuff the crumbled cheddar into the slit you’ve made in the hot dog.
5. Wrap with a slice of bacon, overlapping slightly.
6. Bake 20 minutes.
7. Switch oven to broil and crisp bacon as desired, about 3 or 4 minutes.
8. Allow to cool 5 minutes.
9. Serve in buns, with ketchup, mustard, onions, and other desired condiments.

Variations

• Instead of crumbled cheddar, slices of cheese, folded into strips can be substituted.
• The picture shows oversized ¼-lb hot dogs which required 1½ strips of bacon and larger buns. They were actually too large for everyone, but we were using the ingredients we had (hot dogs we had found on sale and frozen).