Kids will fall in love with these tasty and eye-catching Corn Deer accompanied by a delicious Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce.
Corn Deer
Serves: 24
Ingredients
- 24 miniature smoked sausages
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup fine-ground yellow cornmeal
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ cup whole milk
- 1 large egg
- Vegetable oil, for frying
- 25 (6-inch) wooden skewers
- Miniature pretzel twists
- Mayonnaise
- Finely chopped black olives
- Finely chopped red bell pepper
- Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce (recipe follows)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°. Set a wire cooling rack on a rimmed baking sheet.
- Place sausages on paper towels to drain. Blot dry with additional paper towels, if necessary.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, salt, and pepper.
- In another small bowl, whisk together milk and egg. Add milk mixture to cornmeal mixture, stirring until well combined. (For easier dipping, pour batter into a short drinking glass, refilling as necessary.)
- In a large Dutch oven, pour oil to a depth of 2 inches, and heat over medium heat until a deep-fry thermometer registers 375°.
- Using scissors, cut and discard sharp points from 24 wooden skewers. Insert skewers lengthwise through center of sausages, leaving one end exposed to use as a handle.
- Working in batches, dip sausages in batter, coating evenly. Immediately and carefully place coated sausages into hot oil. Fry, turning frequently, until browned, 2 to 3 minutes. Let drain on prepared rack, and place in oven to keep warm while frying remaining sausages.
- For antlers, break up pretzel twists as evenly as possible. Using remaining skewer, make 2 small holes on each side at top of each sausage. Insert the end of a pretzel piece into each hole.
- For eyes, place 2 small dots of mayonnaise on corn dog, and gently press an olive piece into each mayonnaise dot.
- For nose, place a small dot of mayonnaise on corn dog, and gently press a bell pepper piece into each mayonnaise dot.
- Serve with Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce within an hour.
Honey-Mustard Dipping Sauce
Serves: 1 cup
Ingredients
- ½ cup yellow mustard
- ⅓ cup sour cream
- ¼ cup honey
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together mustard, sour cream, and honey until combined. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
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