Brown Sugar Bacon Wrapped Little Smokies

 Easy Brown Sugar Bacon Wrapped Little Smokies are a perfect prep-ahead party bite! Be sure to make a double batch. They fly off the plate!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ teaspoon cumin
• ¼ teaspoon chili powder
• 18 ounces bacon (1 1/2 packages)
• 14 ounces little smokies (1 package)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. In a small bowl, stir together the brown sugar, cumin, and chili powder. Set aside.
3. Cut bacon strips in half, down the center of the package. You should have about 42 shorter strips of bacon.
4. Wrap one bacon piece around one smokie. Secure the end of the bacon with a toothpick. Place the sasusage in a 9-inch x 13-inch pan with the toothpick sticking up. Repeat with remaining bacon and little smokies.
5. Sprinkle the brown sugar mixture all over the little smokies. You want as much as you can get on the sausage, but it's fine if the extra sugar is in the bottom of the pan.
6. Bake for 1 hour. (see note) Remove from the oven. Transfer to a serving platter and serve immediately, leaving the toothpicks in so guests can grab the smokies easily.

*NOTES*

If your brown sugar isn't completely melted by the end of the cooking time, crank your oven to 350 degrees F and bake a little bit longer. Just keep an eye on things. 

To keep smokies warm on a buffet table, transfer to a slow cooker and pour the syrup from the pan all over the little smokies. Turn to WARM setting and keep the lid on.