Halloween Sausage Mummies
- Savory
- Standard
- Oven
Juicy sausages wrapped in crisp puff pastry strips and baked until golden, with a ketchup dip on the side. A playful, savory Halloween traybake.
- Total
- 50 min
- Prep 15 · Cook 35
- Serves
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy
You'll practice: Basting · Roasting
Instructions
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Heat the oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
~10 min
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Cut the puff pastry into thin strips about 1 cm wide and 15 cm long.
~3 min
Thin, even strips bake at the same rate as the sausage, so the pastry crisps through instead of staying raw and doughy.
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Wrap each sausage with 3 to 4 pastry strips in a crisscross pattern, leaving a small gap near one end for the mummy's face. Press the strip ends gently onto the pastry to seal.
~8 min
Pressing the ends down anchors the strips so they don't unravel and spring open as the pastry puffs in the oven.
Keep the pastry strips cold until wrapping; warm pastry stretches and tears, so work quickly and return any unused strips to the fridge.
Leave a small uncovered patch of sausage at one end so the mummy has a face, and do not overlap the strips too thickly or the pastry under the overlaps stays pale and soft.
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Arrange the wrapped sausages on the lined tray, spacing them 2 cm apart. Beat the egg in a small bowl with a fork and brush it over the pastry. Season the pastry lightly with the salt and black pepper.
~4 min
Egg wash gives the pastry a glossy, deep golden crust, and the gaps let hot air circulate so the sides crisp rather than steam.
Basting Brush the egg wash in a thin, even coat over every exposed bit of pastry; puddles in the folds bake unevenly and leave pale, soggy patches.
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Bake until the pastry is puffed and golden and the sausages reach 71°C/160°F in the center, about 25 minutes.
~25 min
Puff pastry needs a hot oven so its trapped water turns to steam and lifts the layers before the crust sets.
Roasting Give the tray space and a fully preheated oven so the pastry puffs and browns; opening the door early lets the steam escape and the layers collapse.
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While step 5 cooks
While the mummies bake, spoon the ketchup into a small bowl for dipping.
~1 min
