Tasty Planner - Recipe - Little Smokies (Cocktail Sausages) by Wayne Goode

Cocktail Sausages in a Barbecue-Ketchup based sauce. This recipe is based on the many similar recipes I have found.

You can easily customize this recipe. The ketchup-barbecue sauce is the base of the sauce. You can vary the proportion based on your taste but keep the total amout the same. The brown sugar adds sweetness. Dark will give more of a molasses taste, which is good, but light will work also. You could also use honey. You can vary the amount depending on how sweet you like it. Ketchup is a bit sweeter than barbecue sauce, so if you vary the ratio of those two you may need to adjust the amount of brown sugar. The Worcestershire sauce adds some acidity to counter the sweetness. You could also use soy sauce or a vinegar such as apple cider. Butter (a key ingredient in buffalo wing sauce) adds some flavor and smoothness. You can skip or reduce this to reduce the fat content. The spices add some character. You can increase or decrease these depending on what you like, but be careful—they could easily take over the flavor if too much is used. Allspice, cumin, ginger and nutmeg would also be good additions.