Hanky Pankies

We had a comparison test with this recipe and ‘Polish Mistakes’ another very similar AR recipe. This version was my husband’s favorite. I used a nacho cheese sauce for the processed cheese in this recipe. The instructions call for heating the ingredients and topping the bread. I took it one step further and broiled the bread once the topping was put on it. I broil with the oven door open and it took about 5 minutes to reach the broiled color I was striving for. You can also make up the mixture, spread on the cocktail rye bread, flash freeze and bag them up, once frozen. To use at a later time, pull out what you need and broil until they reach the golden color you want. This was a great snack to serve up during an Indianapolis Colts football game on a very cold Sunday afternoon.

I made these using hot Italian sausage, green onions and shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese. I used a marbled rye/pumpernickel that I cut into rounds with a biscuit cutter. Toasted my bread under the broiler on both sides and topped with the sausage mixture. Added a bit more cheese and popped them back under the broiler to melt a bit. Very good and a little spicy from the hot sausage I used. I preferred using real cheese vs. the processed sauce, which I never buy.

Very rich, but tasty. Grocery didn't have the small pieces of cocktail rye bread, but did have unsliced pumpernickel buns, which I cut up into 24 slices.