Pepperoni Bread Sticks

I made up some Pepperoni \Bread Sticks to take with us on our adventure yesterday.  Pepperoni bread sticks are pretty easy to make and are an awesome take along food.  They are also great for taking camping and reheating on a stick over the fire.  Yummy!

I just make bread dough in my bread machine to wrap the sticks in.   I've also bought the Pillsbury Crescent Roll dough and wrapped the sticks in that.  That's pretty good too, and quick.  

But yesterday I made the bread dough up.  Homemade is always pretty good.

To make up Pepperoni Bread Sticks you will need:

Bread Dough or Crescent dough

Pepperoni Sticks

Pizza Sauce or Campbells Tomato Basil Oregano Soup

Grated Cheddar Cheese or Sliced Cheddar

Sauteed Onions (optional)

Bread Dough Recipe for Bread Machine:

1 1/2 cup Warm Water

2 Tbsp Oil

1 Tbsp Sugar

1 Tsp Salt

4 1/2 Cups Flour

1 Tsp Yeast

Add wet ingredients into machine then the dry with the yeast on top of flour.  Set on Dough setting and press Start.   Let the machine do it's magic!  

The bread recipe makes a larger 2 pound loaf, if you just want to make bread with it.  

Once your bread dough is complete, turn it out onto a floured surface.

Roll your dough out into a nice rectangle.   Try and make it just slightly longer then the stick of pepperoni will lay.   You can roll the dough out pretty thin.  

Cut it into strips wide enough to be able to roll wrap around the pepperoni and stuff.  About 4 inches wide or so.

Put sauce down the middle.  I like to use the Campbells Tomato Oregano Basil Soup.  It has great flavor, is nice and thick and has little chunks of onion in it.  But you could just use which ever sauce you like best.

Sprinkle with grated cheddar cheese.  If you have sauteed onion, now would be a good time to put it on.

Lay your pepperoni sticks on top.

Pull the bread dough up around the filling and pinch it shut.  I pull the ends up and over and pinch them too.

All made up.

Place seam side down on a greased sheet.

Spread more sauce on top.

You could use grated cheese on top, but I find that cheese slices are a little neater.

Bake for 30 - 40 minutes at 350* until the bread is browned.  Lay out on a cookie wrap to cool.  But they are great hot out of the oven.

Enjoy!

If you find that the full length pepperoni is too long either cut them in half or buy the sort sticks and make the bread size to cover them.