Sweet and Savory Meatball Cups

Instructions

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1. - Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray the cups of three 12-cup muffin pans with nonstick cooking spray (or work in batches if you don't have 3 pans).
2. - One can at a time, remove the crescent dough from the can and unroll onto a cutting board in one big rectangle. Press the seams together to seal. Using a pizza cutter or knife, cut the dough into 12 squares.
3. - Press the dough squares into the prepared muffin pan cups. Repeat with the remaining cans of crescent dough.
4. - In a small bowl, mix cranberry sauce, chili sauce, juice from half a lemon, and hot pepper sauce until the ingredients are well combined.
5. - Divide about half of the cranberry sauce mixture into the bottom of each dough-lined muffin cup (about a spoonful of sauce for each cup). Place a frozen meatball in each cup on top of the sauce, then spoon the remaining cranberry sauce mixture over the meatballs, keeping the sauce inside the dough cups as much as possible.
6. - Bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, or until the crescent dough is golden brown and the meatballs are hot.
7. - Allow the meatball cups to cool in the pan for a few minutes before removing to a serving tray.