Sweetheart Toasted Sausage Sammies
These mini-sandwiches are a delicious treat for a special Valentine’s Day breakfast. Made with Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties, you can substitute regular ground sausage.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pound of ground sausage or 1 recipe of Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties
- 8 slices of sandwich bread
- Mayonnaise, mustard, butter and/or jelly or jam for spreading (optional)
Instructions
- Make Sweetheart Maple and Sage Sausage Patties per recipe or spread ground sausage on a wax-paper lined cutting board and flatten with palms of your hands.
- Using a 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, punch out hearts from sausage and carefully transfer with spatula to non-stick skillet.
- Cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes, turn the heart sausages over and cook the other side about 3 minutes more.
- Remove from skillet and transfer to plate.
- In the meantime, place 8 slices of bread on a cutting board.
- Using 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, punch out hearts (reserve leftover edges of bread to make Heart in the Hole or to feed the American Coots).
- Place heart-shaped cutouts on a cookie sheet and lightly toast in the broiler for a few minutes.
- Turn toasts over and toast other side.
- Remove from broiler, spread each toast with your choice of butter, mayo, mustard or jelly.
- Top one side of toast with sausage heart and cover with other slice of heart toast.
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