So it’s not quite September, I get that.  It was also 90 degrees today, I get that too.  But when Joanne from Just Eat Real Food told me I needed to create an allergen friendly mummy dog like those seen floating around Pinterest and seasonal magazines, I knew I had to just go for it.

So I didn’t want to put it off – I had all the ingredients ready to go and I had a plan. Plus my stress levels this week have not been healthy and Paleo Mummy Dogs (Top 8 Free) seemed like the perfect therapy. Bonus: I made 3 kids think I was a pretty rad mom.  Trickery!

Ingredients:

• 6 grassfed organic hot dogs
• 1 cup peeled, boiled until fork tender (25 min.), mashed yuca
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic sea salt
• 1 tablespoon coconut flour
• 1 tablespoon avocado or olive oil
• 6 cookie sticks (or popsicle sticks)

1. Preheat your oven to 375
2. In a heavy duty blender or food processor, combine the yuca, garlic sea salt, and oil
3. Blend/combine well until a dough is formed
4. Spoon dough onto a piece of parchment paper or nonstick cutting board
5. Add in the coconut flour and distribute evenly
6. Now divide the dough into 6 same-sized pieces
7. Take each piece of dough and roll it into a long skinny piece, about the width of a pencil. Ideally you want your dough piece to roll out to about 18 inches give or take; this will help it wrap around the hot dog without leaving too much dog exposed
8. Once you have one piece of dough rolled out, take a hot dog, blot any moisture from it, and begin wrapping the dough.  It might be easier to actually roll the hot dog versus picking up the long piece of dough.
9. Note: if the dough breaks, you can mash it back together.  Keep calm, wrap on!
10. Once each hot dog is wrapped like a mummy from top to bottom, place on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes or until dough is cooked and slightly browned.  You can baste a little extra oil on the dough if you like as well.
11. Remove from oven and dot ketchup eyes on your mummy dogs
12. Once cooled slightly, use the cookie sticks to insert up the middle of your mummy dogs
13. Serve to your favorite ghouls and goblins!