This Spicy Maple Candied Bacon takes glorious bacon and makes it even better. Use it in soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts and more!
Bacon is good stuff by itself. Add a little heat and some sugar and wowzers, youโve got yourself bacon nirvana! This candied bacon is sure to impress and totally simple to make. It transforms the delicious bacon strips into this sweet and salty candy with a nice slight chew. The slight heat leaves your taste buds craving more. Really, it is just ridiculously good.
It could be served plain or incorporated into almost any dish where youโd use regular bacon. Trust me, itโll take the whole thing up a notch. Salads, appetizers, soups, breakfast items, and more.You can also incorporate it into desserts. The possibilities really are endless! One of the most popular uses of it on my website is with my BLT Deviled Eggs. Iโm telling you, it really takes it up a notch. This really is a must make recipe. It could very well change the way you eat bacon forever!
What does it mean to candy something? You see it all the time on cooking shows and such. It is really quite simple. It just means that you are coating something in some sort of sugar. Usually youโd be melting the sugar first which should be done low and slow as to not burn. The above recipe dissolves the sugar into the maple syrup and melts during the baking process.
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Hi. This looks and sounds yummy!! Iโm just curious why the bacon isnโt laid on a slotted or wired, raised surface so the fat goes underneath the bacon when it cooks. The only thing I can picture by laying the strips flat on a pan is pulling it out of the oven to find the bacon covered with fat. I watched the video to find out and it doesnโt show it! For anyone whoโs already made it, how to you deal with the fat?
Thanks!
Yes. Similar to how youโd cook bacon in a pan in its own fat, you bake it this way as well. Itโs quite delicious and you donโt lose out on all that flavor.
oh. my. god.
I canโt tell you how many bacon recipes Iโve triedโฆ but by far this is the best EVER and by a landslide. Itโs definitely sweet and thereโs no hiding that but that cayenne pepper is so unexpected! I honestly suck at writing reviews but D A M N, this recipe is incredible.
Thank you so much!!!
Could you use turkey bacon?
Should work!
Turkey bacon is usually very limp, so I donโt think it would be a good option.