Turtle Burgers

Turtle Burgers

This is the finished product

Bringing out the Kitchenaid mixer today

I started with my spices and crackers, let the machine mix them up for me

Added the hamburger

Let the machine incorporate everything

As you can see, I made 10 burgers, about a 1/3 pound each

Thawed hot dogs

Cut up the hot dogs into the head, tail and 4 legs for each turtle

Your left with a bunch of hot dog pieces in the end

This is tedious, but makes for a great end product

Feed those hot dog pieces to your dog.  Or have them yourself if you like.

Bust out your cheese

Two pieces of cheese on top of each burger

Gotta have bacon

Make a bacon weave on top of each burger.  This makes the shell.

Pre-heat the oven to 350 F.  My oven rolls it back 25 F as it's a convection oven.

Cook the burgers for 45 minutes.

Have a drink while you wait.

Ingredients

Your favorite recipe to make your home made hamburger patties
Hot Dogs
Bacon
Cheese

Stuff that you need

Patience - cutting up the hot dogs is tedious
Cookie sheet
Parchment paper

Directions

Make up your hamburger patties and press your thumb into the middle.  Seen this on the Rachel Ray show.  When your hamburger shrinks during the cooking, it will stop the middle from plumping up and being raw in the middle.

Cut up the hot dogs.  1 x head, 1 x tail, 4 x legs/feet for each burger that you made.  Jam them into the burger.  I take a knife and "cut" into the burger, then tipping the knife handle up, I push the hot dog piece in the burger, under the knife blade.  I remove the knife and "seat" the hot dog into the burger.

Pre-heat your oven to 350 F.

Cut your cheese into strips and put two pieces of cheese on each burger.

Make bacon weaves and place them on top of the burger.  I've made them with a 6 piece of bacon weave, but this time, it was a 4 piece bacon weave.

Into the oven for 45 minutes.

These burgers are going to be greasy.  After they are cooked, you may want to transfer them to cookie cooling rack with paper towel to catch that grease.

Transfer to a hamburger bun, top with your favorite toppings and enjoy.

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