Savory Hot Dog Cake

Instead of grilling or boiling hot dogs, another way to serve them at your summer party is to bake them into a savory cake. A relish mustard-flavored savory cake, to be specific.  This crazy fun Savory Hot Dog Cake recipe is a good fit for any July 4th picnic table. Furthermore, it’s super easy to make.  Also, you can see how this is a fun dish to bring to a potluck barbecue. It will be the talk of the buffet table.

First, make the topping. Peel and dice a couple of sweet onions. Then heat vegetable oil in a skillet. Sauté the onions until they turn transparent. Then stir in ketchup to coat the onion. Cook until the mixture starts to caramelize. The mustard batter comes together in minutes.Fold in relish, and it’s done.  Simply layer hot dogs in a baking dish. Cover with the mustard-flavored batter. Then top with this layer of pan-fried ketchup-spiked sweet onions before baking. Season with kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.  Set aside.

This Savory Hot Dog Cake recipe contains beef hot dogs. However, you can easily substitute chicken, turkey, or vegetarian hot dogs to suit other diets. For the mustard in the recipe, use any variety you prefer. The possibilities are endless. Go as sweet or as spicy as you like.

Serve the cake with a medley of condiments to spike it up.  Some  mustard, variations, sweet relish, and ketchup come to mind.  So have a wonderful holiday if you are celebrating here in the United States.

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Savory Hot Dog Cake

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 35 minutes

Servings 8

Author Lora Wiley-Lennartz

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons plus 5 tablespoons vegetable oil divided
• 2 sweet onions peeled and chopped
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1.6 oz vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 2 tablespoons spicy mustard
• 1 cup sweet relish
• 8 hot dogs

Instructions

1. Heat the 2 tablespoons of oil in a skillet.
2. Add the onions and cook stirring until they start to brown.
3. Add the ketchup and stir to coat.

4. Season with salt and pepper, let cook until the onions have completely softened.

5. Remove from heat and set aside.
6. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
7. Grease and flour a 9" x 5" x 2+1/2" deep loaf pan.
8. In a separate bowl. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
9. Place the vegetable oil, eggs, and mustard in a mixer and beat to combine.
10. Beat in the relish.
11. Add the dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
12. Place three hot dog pieces lengthwise into the pan up against one side. Cut three pieces out of another hot dog and extend each hot dog row.
    
13. Spread half the mixture to cover the hot dogs. Repeat layering with the remaining hot dogs and then cover the second layer of hot dogs with the last half of the batter.
    
14. You may have one small piece of hot dog left. Don't date me. Just feed it to your pet
15. Spread the ketchup onions over the top.
    
16. Place in the oven and bake for 1 hour or until a knife inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
17. Remove from oven, let cool for 10 minutes before removing the cake from pan and transferring to a serving platter.
18. Cut and serve.

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