Maple Bacon Japanese Sausages

My Aunt Tracey made these years ago for a party I was having and everyone in that room who had one, loved them!  How can you not?  It's fat, bacon and sugar - the perfect food crack combination!  When I served them at a party a few years later, all the firefighters wanted this recipe and when I forgot to send it to them, they reminded me - that is how much these guys loved this appie!  

I picked up a pack of these Japanese sausages yesterday at Costco but you can of course use any wiener, from a hot dog to a smokey to a cocktail wiener.

While this is not a new recipe, it is one worth whipping out for the holiday season.  You can also switch out the ingredients for maple syrup and brown sugar for sugar free options too. I used low sugar maple syrup and brown sugar Splenda as a replacement.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

6 sausages, 6 pieces of bacon, 1/4 cup maple syrup, 1 tsp. smoked paprika (or your choice of heat), 1/4 cup brown sugar.

Wrap each sausage in a piece of bacon and place on a baking sheet.  If you are using cocktail sausages, you can split the piece of bacon into 3 since the cocktail sausages are much smaller.

Once all of the sausages are wrapped in bacon, mix up the maple syrup with smoked paprika and brush over sausages.  Cook sausages for 30 minutes.  After the sausages are in the oven for 15 minutes then sprinkle each sausage with a little brown sugar and return to bake for another 15 minutes or so.

Enjoy!