What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? All the Buzz: Pig Candy Bacon! If you ever needed a reason to eat candy for breakfast, permission granted. This marriage of brown sugar, spices, and hickory smoked bacon is the best idea since sliced bread! You’ll want to choose thick bacon to hold all the seasonings. Line a pan with foil despite the fact a rack is used; it just makes clean up that much faster. If you don’t….well, let’s just say the other people in your house won’t be waiting around for you. Once the glazed sweetmeat is taken out of the oven, all bets are off. The line forms here.
PIG CANDY BACON
Ingredients:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon wasabi powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
2 teaspoons chili powder
8-10 slices bacon, thick cut
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix brown sugar, black pepper, wasabi powder, cayenne pepper, and chili powder in a deep baking dish. Add bacon, one strip at a time; toss to coat well. Line a baking sheet with foil for easy clean up. Place a wire rack on pan. Lay bacon strips on rack in a single layer without overlapping. Place baking sheet one setting below top rack in oven. Bake 30-45 minutes, or until crisp. There is no need to turn the bacon. Carefully remove pan from oven. Let caramelized bacon cool slightly before transferring with a tongs to parchment paper.* Serve as a breakfast companion, appetizer, or snack.
* The second time I made Pig Candy, I pierced them with bamboo skewers after they were baked and they were spot on!
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This sounds wild. Love it!
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My son said it was so good we could sell it on a stick. lol 🥓
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I think Id agree with that statement!
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I guarantee it. lol 🤣
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The nicest treats ever.. 😉
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Agreed. 🥓
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Here there is no diet worth. A recipe for other appetizing
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For special occasions, it works. 😋
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These looks so very addictive! :Love the addition of wasabi powder. 🙂
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Gotta have that kick! 🍃🌶
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🙂
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“Like” I need another way to enjoy bacon. Now I’m thinking about getting some thick cut bacon & see if I have the time this weekend to make this, sigh, now I want bacon.
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Go directly to your butcher or meat department for a slab. lol 👀🍃
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Oh my goodness…!!!
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Psst. You said that out loud. lol 🤣
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🙂 I sure did! It couldn’t be helped! lol
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If, as Ben Franklin once said, beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy, then bacon is the main course proof of that.
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My life would be very bland without bacon. 🥓
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A world without bacon? I shudder at such a thought . . .
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Not gonna happen. lol 🤣
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It can’t. It. Just. Can’t.
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This is marvellous. Lovely spice mix for the bacon too.
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It’s a great treat for Sunday afternoon snacking. 🤣
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Mouth. Watering.
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It’s a treat. One I tend to save for special occasions. 💜
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Oh my God. Whoever invented this is a genius.
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I wish I had…but I so agree. lol 😍
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