Ratloaf (Halloween Meatloaf)
Description
This ratloaf (Halloween meatloaf) recipe is stuffed with cheese, BBQ sauce, and French-fried onions, and shaped like a rat with oozy, cheesy innards.
Ingredients
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3 pounds ground beef
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2 cups milk
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2 cups dry bread crumbs
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1 onion, chopped
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2 eggs
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salt and ground black pepper to taste
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1 cup French-fried onions
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3/4 (12 ounce) bottle barbeque sauce
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1 (8 ounce) package shredded Cheddar cheese
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3 large black olives
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3 spaghetti noodles, broken into halves
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2 slices red potato
Directions
1
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2
Combine ground beef, milk, bread crumbs, onion, egg, salt, and black pepper in a large bowl.
3
Combine 1 cup French-fried onions, ¾ bottle barbecue sauce, and Cheddar cheese in a separate bowl.
4
Place about ½ ground beef mixture on a sheet of waxed paper; form into a rat body shape. Spread thick layer cheese mixture on top, leaving ½-inch space around outer edges.
5
Place remaining ground beef mixture on top cheese mixture layer, forming rat body shape, sealing cheese mixture completely inside so cheese doesn't ooze out while baking.
6
Place a rimmed baking sheet on ratloaf; carefully flip over. Reshape ratloaf as needed; insert olives for eyes and nose, spaghetti for whiskers, and potato slices for ears into ratloaf. Spread remaining ¼ bottle barbecue sauce over ratloaf. Crush remaining 2 cups French-fried onions; sprinkle on top and around ratloaf.
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Bake in the preheated oven until cooked through and cheese melts, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into center should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C). Cool before slicing, 5 minutes.