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These adorable Christmas Sausage Rolls shaped like little snowmen are so fun and easy to make!
They are a fun addition to lunchboxes, a tasty on-the-go snack, and the perfect party food served with your favorite dipping sauce.
All you need is store-bought pizza dough and a few sausages, and you’ll be well on your way to making these festive rolls everyone will love.
Recipe Tip
Make a sausage roll wreath using the snowmen for a showstopping centerpiece.
Christmas Sausage Rolls Ingredients
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- Pizza dough: I use storebought pizza dough for this recipe, ideally a rectangular sheet.
- Sausages: Frankfurter pork sausages or similar pre-cooked sausages.
- Candy eyes: Available at most large supermarkets and baking shops. I opt for the regular size, but mini eyes are fun too.
- Peppercorns: For the ‘buttons’. Some may fall off during baking, that’s fine, just rearrange.
- Egg: Beat together for the egg wash.
- Carrot: You only need a tiny piece for the snowman noses.
How to Make Festive Sausage Rolls
- Preheat the oven to 190°C / 374°F on the fan setting and cut the sausages into 5-7cm (2-3 inch) pieces.
- Roll the sausages into slightly wider rectangular pieces of dough.
- Fold over any excess.
- Cut long strips of dough to make the scarves and wrap around the snowmen.
- Snip the ends with clean scissors and top with peppercorn buttons. Brush with a beaten egg and bake for 11-15 minutes until golden.
- Final details: Top the snowmen with candy eyes and a tiny shard of carrot for the nose.
Possible Variations
- Pizza dough: Crescent dough, puff pastry, or make your own homemade sausage roll dough.
- Sausages: Use any precooked sausages you like, whether they are beef, chicken, lamb, or pork. It’s important they are precooked so they cook in the time as the pizza dough.
- Peppercorns: Sprinkles, nigella or black sesame seeds.
- Egg: Swap the egg wash for milk, heavy cream, or melted butter.
- Add-ins: Mustard, ketchup, HP sauce, chutney, caramelized onions, or grated Parmesan.
- Filling: Swap sausages for ham and cheese, spinach and ricotta, bacon and cheddar, or even Nutella.
- Extras: Use pretzel sticks for arms or add tomato hats as I did on this snowman stick platter (add after baking).
Recipe Tip
If you prefer not to use candy eyes, omit them or use an edible marker, black sesame seeds, or peppercorns.
Best Served with
Sriracha mayo, ketchup, marinara sauce, mustard, and garlic sour cream dip are all great options.
How to Store Leftovers
Cool the rolls, then store them in an airtight container in the fridge.
FAQs
They are best enjoyed within 1-2 days.
Absolutely. You can make them a few hours ahead. Store them in the fridge, and take them out 20 minutes before serving.
That’s fine. Use a rolling pin or wine bottle to roll into a rectangular shape. It doesn’t have to be perfect, as you will mold the dough around the sausages.
I use precooked sausages that cook after 10-15 minutes in the oven, so they need the same oven time as the pizza dough.
Add a tiny bit of water to the back of the candy eyes and let them dry. Edible glue or a bit of honey is an option, too.
I would avoid raw sausages for this recipe, as they will likely need more cooking time than the dough. If raw sausages is all you have available, pre cook them first, and then fill them into the dough, so you can ensure everything finishes cooking at the same time.
Sure. Let them cool, them stick them in the freezer in a zip lock bag for up to three months. Thaw them overnight in the fridge.
Use a preheated oven set to 100°C (212°F) until heated through (about 20-25 minutes from frozen).
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Christmas Sausage Rolls
Equipment
Ingredients
- 280 grams pizza dough, 1 roll
- 4 sausages, Frankfurter
- 20 candy eyes
- 1 egg, beaten
- 20 peppercorns
- 1 small carrot
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190°C / 374°F on the fan setting.
- Cut the sausages into 2-3 inch (5-7 cm) pieces.
- Trim a long rectangular piece of pizza dough slightly wider than each sausage piece.
- Roll the sausage into the dough and fold over the excess at each end neatly.
- Cut a long, thin strip of dough and wrap this around the snowman to make a scarf.
- Use scissors or a sharp knife to cut fringes on the ends of the scarf.
- Brush the snowmen with egg wash.
- Top with peppercorns to make the buttons.
- Place the snowmen on a lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 11-15 minutes until golden brown.
- Trim tiny triangles out of carrot for the noses, and lay these onto the faces of the baked snowmen. You can use a small amount of edible glue to make them stick, but I just placed mine on top.
- Top with candy eyes (if you wet the back, they should stick when they dry).
- Serve.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
What kind of sausage? Thank you
Hi Danielle,
I use precooked Frankfurter sausages (pork), you can use any precooked sausages you like (chicken, beef, lamb, etc).
Any questions, just let me know.
Sine