Meatloaf is covered in bacon and basted with a sweet ketchup sauce during last hour of baking.
Course Halloween, Main Dish
Cuisine All-American
Keyword bacon, ground beef, meatloaf
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 2 hourshours
Total Time 2 hourshours30 minutesminutes
Servings 12servings
Author Lynn / Turnips 2 Tangerines
Ingredients
3poundsground beef
1poundItalian sausage
1/2cupdiced onion
1/2cupdiced green pepper
1cupshredded fresh zucchini
1egg
3/4cupketchup
1sleevecrackers, crushed (buttery or saltine)
4slicesbread, cubed
1/3cupgrated Parmesan cheese
1/4teaspooneach salt and pepper to taste
Garnish:
onion slices, for eyes
1poundthick sliced bacon, for bandages
green pepper slices, nose and teeth
Sweet Ketchup Sauce:
2cupsketchup
1/3cupbrown sugar
1tablespoonWorcestershire sauce
1/2teaspoononion powder
1/2teaspoongarlic powder
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350º In a large bowl mix together all ingredients.
Place mixture into a 13 x 9 inch baking dish and shape into a skull.
Place onion slices on meatloaf for eyes and green pepper slices on meatloaf skull for teeth.
Randomly place bacon slices on meatloaf skull to look like bandages.
Bake meatloaf in oven, covered with foil for 2 hours (drain excess grease if necessary)
Remove foil, continue baking for another hour (drain excess grease if necessary)
Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, stir together ketchup, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder and garlic powder. Simmer on low until warm. Baste meatloaf with sauce every 15 during last hour of baking.