Kodiak Dogs

So called because they are make from Kodi­ak brand of pan­cake mix! I am addict­ed to the mix!!!! It’s absolute­ly amaz­ing. Now let me say here, that I dis­like corn­bread. No amount of try­ing “real­ly good” corn bread will make me like it. I don’t hate it like I hate mush­rooms but I dis­like it. The only thing I tol­er­ate corn­bread with are corn­dogs. Now take corn­dogs and pan­cake mix, change a few things up and WHAMO you have pan­cake bat­tered hot­dogs!!!

And that’s what I’ll be post­ing about here. Quite easy to make with the Kodi­ak pancake/waffle mix and your favorite brand of hot­dogs. I hap­pen to like the Oscar May­er ones.

The pur­pose of this post is just shar­ing of some­thing I made. I am in no way an expert. In fact, this is the very first time I made this!

What you need:

  • Hot­dogs
  • Pan­cake mix
  • Corn Meal
  • Deep Fry­er
  • Peanut oil
  • Sticks. I used cof­fee stir­rer sticks.

Now for a series of pic­tures.

This is the box of the one I used. There are many dif­fer­ent mix­es to choose from under the Kodi­ak brand.

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First off, I decid­ed to cut the hot­dogs in half, one, because the cof­fee stir­rers were much too flim­sy to hold a whole hot­dog, two, the deep fry­er is not near­ly big enough, and three, I fig­ure it would fry faster. The cof­fee stir­rers were still flim­sy on the half-dogs (btw these are the jum­bo wieners).

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Here is the set­up I used out­side. It just so hap­pened that my mom want­ed to use a dif­fer­ent bat­ter so she made her own (the small­er blue bowl on the left side). Pay that no mind. That’s a Presto mul­ti-pur­pose pot. We usu­al­ly fry out­side to pre­vent smell, heat and splash­ing.

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Pret­ty sim­ple stuff. Coat the dog in mix. Notice how the con­sis­ten­cy is thick­er rather than thin­ner.

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Now fry it. You can see now why I cut them in half. There are 4 fry­ing there.

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Look­ing some­what dark, but smelling heav­en­ly. It’s get­ting dark too. I had some trou­ble get­ting them not to stick to each oth­er in the bas­ket.

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And here’s the end result. Close up so you can see the corn meal. Look­ing like a real corn­dog!

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Yeah­h­hh, I’m a big fan of more meat, less bat­ter. On the side, since I had more mix left, I decid­ed to dice up some chick­en breast and use the remain­ing bits to coat that and fry. The fun­ny light col­ored bits on top are plain pan­cake mix with noth­ing in it.…don’t rec­om­mend that so much. The chick­en turned out real­ly well, sim­i­lar to a Chick-fil‑a nugget in con­sis­ten­cy.

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In con­clu­sion: In doing this again, while it was over­all a suc­cess, I’d rec­om­mend mix­ing some hon­ey or maple syrup into the pan­cake mix. It was a lit­tle bland since it was just pan­cake mix and not corn­bread, but noth­ing a lit­tle driz­zle of maple syrup on top did­n’t solve! If want­i­ng to use a full sized wiener or frank, I’d get a full sized deep fry­er and pop­si­cle sticks or take­out chop­sticks. The cof­fee stir­rers were per­fect for the half-cut, though. I will def­i­nite­ly be try­ing this again in the future!