hey grillers it's susie from heygrillhey.com and today we're making an awesome recipe
pineapple cream cheese pig shots that's right sausage wrapped in bacon filled
with this creamy pineappley sweet filling cooked on the smoker absolutely bomb you
guys are going to want to try these out and i'm here to teach you how let's do
it
first let's break down a pig shot if you haven't heard of a pig shot before it's essentially a
pig on pig meat treat with whatever type of filling you like i tend to like the salty and
sweet combo so i've got pork sausage pound of bacon and we're doing a pineapple cream cheese
filling but if you wanted to just keep these cream cheese that would be awesome if you
wanted to put cheddar and cream cheese inside also delicious chop up some jalapenos in there
mushrooms maybe the world is yours when it comes to filling your pig shots but i'm teaching you my
way because this is my show so here we go we're gonna start with eight ounces of softened cream
cheese to that we're gonna add about a half a cup of crushed pineapple i'm gonna reserve
a couple tablespoons so that we can top our little pig shots at the end
and then a quarter cup of brown sugar now just give it a mix until everything's incorporated
perfect i'm just going to put this into a zip top bag because it's so much easier
to pipe the filling into our pig shots than it is to try and spoon it in by hand
so i'm going gonna put it in a bag and set it aside life hack if you want a really yummy treat
just eat that cream cheese pineapple mixture with some graham crackers
a life hack yeah well like i don't know like a happy a happy happiness hack tasty tasty nibbles
tidbit squeeze the air out set this guy aside our filling is ready to go
now we have to assemble the pig shots themselves these are called pig shots because they actually
resemble a shot glass let me show you what i'm talking about so this is one of those
pre-cooked rope sausages typically the brands like hillshire farm there are a couple people
that make them but they are pre-cooked and that's pretty important here because they're going to
hold up if you use an uncooked sausage and you cut it like this and you try and form it not only are
you going to have you know some issues getting it into the right shape but when it cooks it'll fall
apart so make sure you get a pre-cooked sausage grab yourself a strip of bacon start on one side
just wrap your way around so as you can see i actually cut my whole length of bacon into half
pieces you don't need a whole piece secure it with a toothpick through the sausage and just like that
you have a little pork on pork meat shot glass to put your filling into then we repeat
you on to something yeah
keep it on the board yeah i was trying to pick it up like a chump
dirt everyone's grateful right now listen i just spent a long time being mad at wrapping these
but now that i know the easy way i'm just mad i didn't figure it out sooner
and they look better too look at how much better these ones
look now that i learned how to wrap them right
i've made these so many times and i have never wrapped them like that just goes to show you
you're never too old to learn a new trick
tree full of pig shots now we got to stuff them with our filling remember quart bag
grab some scissors snip off a section you kind of want it to be big enough that those cream or
pineapple chunks won't get stuck in there and then we pipe it in like we're decorating a cake
you really only need a little squeeze in each you don't want to
go over the top of the bacon because as the cream cheese heats up it'll melt out the
sides so fill them and then give yourself a little gap with the bacon at the top
okay super happy with that now we need our reserved little pineapples you're just gonna
grab a couple little pieces of that crushed pineapple and set it on top of each pig shot
so pretty so colorful
i mean i want to throw a party just so that i can feed these to people at the party i miss party
i'm happy with that now finishing touch my friends
we sprinkle with a little bit of barbecue seasoning i'm using my sweet rub this is
a great compliment to these pig shots it gives you that smoky barbecue flavor but the little bit of
brown sugar in there kind of reinforces the sweet vibes that we've got going on in the cream cheese
so just a light sprinkle on top it's gonna look real pretty
all right pig shots are on these are going to go at 300 degrees for 75 to 90 minutes the bacon is
gonna really render down and it's not gonna be super crisp but it's gonna have some crisp edges
be bite through and super delicious 75 minutes in our pork shots are done come in and take a look
at these bad boys we've got that pineapple and the sweet rub on top that have kind of
started to caramelize together and brown from the smoke our bacon looks beautifully rendered
there are definitely going to be some nice crispy pieces on there
and they all held up awesome even with my semi-wacky bacon wrapping skills
my mouth is watering you're gonna burn your mouth i'm gonna burn my mouth yeah i should
wait a minute all right i'm gonna pull these guys off of the wire rack onto the serving
the serving board my cutting board and i just want to let these cool for at least 10 minutes
before i serve them because that cream cheese is still very liquid like molten lava in there
and you want those to set up for just a little bit before you try and remove the toothpicks
otherwise you could unravel your little pig shots
once these are all on the platter you can see a little bit more clearly why they're called
pig shots each one of these looks like a perfect little shot glass of a snack
now you can attempt to do this in one bite which i believe is possible but i want to give you guys a
cross section of what it looks like on the inside so i'm gonna see if i can i can do it in two bites
there you go these little pig shots are amazing they are the perfect appetizer party snack
uh any way that you want to get more bacon cream cheese and sausage into your life
do it in the form of a pig shop my friends when you do snap a photo of
these beauties post them on social media use the hashtag #heygrillhey that way i can see it
and cheer you on on your journey to becoming a backyard bbq hero see you next time