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    Salty & Sweet Bacon Wrapped Appetizers

    December 10, 2023 by Karen 188 Comments

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    I know that you know I would NEVER go through a holiday season without talking about bacon wraps. These aren't your average pigs in a blanket.

    Bacon wraps on ironstone platter.

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    I try not to let a year go by where I don't remind you about this disgusting recipe.  If you were to tell someone the ingredients to the famed bacon wraps I serve my family at Christmas every year, you probably wouldn't be met exclamations of delight.

    Instead, after explaining to your guests that these tasty little treats are made with bacon, sweetened condensed milk, Worcestershire sauce and dijon mustard, the best you could expect is for one out of 10 people to just pretend vomit, as opposed to actually vomit.

    Of course this means you can never tell anyone what these are made of until after they've tried them.  Kind of like beef marrow.  Just spread it on toast and feed it to someone.  Then after they've scarfed it down and licked their fingers clean, declare "HAH!  YOU FOOL!  THAT WAS THE MARROW OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF A BEEF BONE!  GROSS, GROSS MARROW!  HAH!  But it's good isn't it? Omg.  Why would you throw up like that? That's very rude."

    So that's fact #1 about Bacon Wraps - the fact that the ingredients sound horrifying.

    Fact #2 This recipe includes bacon and cheese. Read that one more time, slowly. Baconnnn and cheeseeeee. It's a 🤩🧂 salty 🧂🥓 bacon appetizer 🥓 ✨. With cheese.

    If you need to know more than that, I suspect you are one of three things: a vegan, a vegetarian or a hairbrush.

    These are not for the food snob.  These are not for those who only eat healthy.  These are for people who are FUN!

    Ingredients

    Bacon wrap ingredients on marble counter; bacon, worcestershire sauce, dijon, cheese, sweetened condensed milk, bread.

    Just look at those ingredients. I mean, they makes no sense at all.

    Sweetened condensed milk being poured out of blue and white can into a glass bowl with dijon and Worcestershire sauce.

    Condensed milk, Worcestershire sauce, and mustard???

    A stack of soft white bread with the crusts being cut off with a wood handled serrated knife.

    The bread make sense. Everyone likes bread.

    Marble rolling pin being used to flatten white bread, on a marble countertop.

    You roll the bread out as flat as you can.  If you have a heavy marble rolling pin, now's the time to take it out.

    How to assemble Bacon Wraps

    Step by step photos of the assembly of bacon wrap appetizers.

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    You lay 3 strips of bacon side by side (each piece has previously been cut in half), lay the flattened bread on top, cover with a heaping tablespoon of condensed milk mixture and a sprinkling of cheese. Roll 'er up and your bacon wraps are ready to cook.  


    TIP: It's fastest if you do these bacon wraps in an assembly line style.  Lay out all your bacon, then bread, sauce, cheese, then roll.


    Before baking them, you have to secure them with toothpicks because they puff up and toast and get GLORIOUSLY greasy and gooey. Which makes them kind of want to explode if you don't have them secured with a toothpick.

    Rows of uncooked bacon wraps on cookie racks set on well used baking sheet.
    Place them on a rack over a cookie sheet & bake until irresistible.
    Cooked bacon wraps, oozing with cheese just out of the oven.

    You can cut these into pieces if you want but they just break apart very easily. Or, I mean, why cut them into pieces at all. Basically they're bite sized even if you don't cut them into 3. Basically.

    Cooked bacon wraps with toothpicks on an ironstone plate with a cookie cooling rack in the background.

    These are my families favourite Christmas appetizers. Salty, crispy, gooey and slightly sweet. 

    Crispy, salty bacon appetizers fresh out of the oven displayed on ironstone platter.

     

    Bacon Wraps

    You'd never think this mix of ingredients would make SUCH a delicious appetizer but it does.  I've never met anyone who doesn't love a bacon wrap.
    4.52 from 74 votes
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    Course: Appetizer
    Cuisine: Yummy
    Prep Time: 1 hour hour
    Cook Time: 45 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 1 hour hour 45 minutes minutes
    Servings: 20 people
    Calories: 319kcal
    Author: Karen

    Ingredients

    • 1½ pounds bacon each piece sliced in half
    • 20 slices white bread crusts cut off
    • ¼ cup dijon mustard
    • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
    • 2 cups cheddar cheese old, shredded
    • 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce.

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 375.
    • Mix together condensed milk, Worcestershire sauce, and dijon mustard.
    • Flatten bread with rolling pin.
    • Lay 3 strips of bacon side by side.
    • Lay single piece of bread on top.
    • Smear with a large tablespoon of condensed milk mixture.
    • Top with a fingerful of shredded cheese.
    • Roll up tightly.
    • Secure each bacon piece with a toothpick.
    • Lay bacon wraps on a rack over a tin foil lined cookie sheet to catch drips.  Also line the bottom rack of your oven.
    • Bake until bacon is cooked to your liking (approximately 45 minutes - 1 hour)

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    Nutrition

    Serving: 3pieces | Calories: 319kcal | Carbohydrates: 24g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 481mg | Potassium: 187mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 179IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 206mg | Iron: 1mg

    QUESTIONS/ANSWERS

    • Can these be frozen?  You bet!  If you have any left over.
    • Can you cook these ahead of time?  Yes indeed.  Just reheat them in a blazing hot (500) oven for a couple of minutes.  Don't use the microwave to heat them up. They'll go weird and chewy.
    • What if I don't like bacon? Can I use something else? What??!!  NO.  Who ARE you??!
    • Where are the jalapeños in these bacon wraps?  That's a different kind of bacon wrapped delight. You can see my recipe for Jalapeño poppers here.

    I bought the bacon last week when it was on sale, I have the sauce, the mustard, sweetened condensed milk and bread.  All I need now is to psych myself up to make them but NOT eat them.  They need to go straight into the freezer until Christmas.

    Or a very persistent craving.

    Enjoy.

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    Salty & Sweet Bacon Wrapped Appetizers

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    1. MrsDFromCT

      December 17, 2023 at 1:36 pm

      Oh Karen. I made these for a holiday party and people were swooning over them. Who would have thought? (Ok, you would've thought...) They will henceforth be known as "Sweet and Salty Bacony Goodness". When you know, you know!

      Reply
      • Karen

        December 17, 2023 at 5:39 pm

        Ha! That's fantastic. It's all from my sister who found the recipe somewhere DECADES ago. ~ karen!

        Reply
        • Vicki DeLeo

          December 17, 2023 at 6:35 pm

          Knew it! This has to be some swanky concoction from like the '70s! It's great!

    2. Deb from Maryland

      December 11, 2023 at 9:12 am

      Second year and counting at my family Christmas Eve dinner. So fricken good!

      Reply
    3. Helen Whaley

      December 11, 2023 at 7:41 am

      Would these be good made with prosciutto instead of bacon?
      My husband came home with armloads of prosciutto he found on sale and this would be a great way to use it up.

      Reply
    4. Sharon

      December 11, 2023 at 5:52 am

      These, without doubt, are the best, in freezer uncooked are a great emergency app. Also granddaughters love rolling them - thanks Karen

      Reply
    5. Randy P

      December 11, 2023 at 12:13 am

      I forgot about these treats last year - shame on me - will make an effort to forage the ingredients and give it a go. Not much of a cheese fan though so I might substitute, perhaps mozz or some such blander white cheese.

      Reply
    6. Jennifer

      December 11, 2023 at 12:06 am

      I AM a vegetarian, as it happens. So I won't make them. But dang it! If someone did, I would eat one. They look and sound delish.

      Reply
      • Karen

        December 11, 2023 at 1:04 am

        They really are. My niece is a long time, now very slightly wavering vegetarian, and my goal is to break her down on Xmas eve when I serve them. ~ karen!

        Reply
    7. Mark

      December 18, 2022 at 10:03 pm

      Okay, now I have to go and buy white bread, dijon mustard and sweetened condensed milk. Is the great covid mustard shortage over? Or was that only in France?

      Although not orange, my favourite sharp cheddar is Welsh Collier's cheddar that has a picture of the miner on the package (aptly named, too). When my cousin from across the pond was visiting a few years ago, we had some and I said it was strong cheese and she said, "Well, it's got a miner on the front, innit?" She also knows how to pronounce Worcestershire properly, of course.

      Reply
      • Twyla Laakso

        December 21, 2022 at 3:33 pm

        Yes, that would be “Wuss-ter” right?😂

        Reply
        • Mark

          December 25, 2022 at 2:16 pm

          You know it, Tywla!

          I give this recipe 4 1/2 stars. I made this for a Christmas Eve get-together and was asked for the recipe by several people. I used a 454 g package of bacon and only needed 10 slices of bread, maybe the bacon was cut thicker than what Karen had. With only 10 slices of bread, I only needed half the dijon mustard mixture.

      • Michelle

        December 14, 2024 at 3:50 pm

        Do you think these would work with a whole grain/multi grain bread? It's what I make and always have on hand. Though for bacon's sake, I could be convinced to make plain white bread....

        Reply
        • Mark

          December 14, 2024 at 5:57 pm

          Am sure your whole/multi grain bread would work fine Michelle.

        • Karen

          December 16, 2024 at 11:14 am

          I would absolutely use the white bread! I don't normally have Wonderbread in the house but always for bacon wraps. There are certain things for which only Wonderbread will do. Bacon wraps is one of them. ~ karen!

    8. Jody

      December 17, 2022 at 12:30 pm

      Is it possible to become dehydrated by drooling excessivey? These look so good!

      Reply
    9. Deb from Maryland

      December 16, 2022 at 9:09 am

      Oh my! How decadently wonderful sounding. I'm in.

      Reply
    10. Lynn

      December 16, 2022 at 8:32 am

      I sent this to our daughter who will be hosting the Christmas Eve festivities--hoping she takes the hint and makes them!!! If she doesn't--I will take care of that on New Year's Eve--hell, even if she does! Thank you for sharing--Merry Christmas to all!!

      Reply
      • Karen

        December 16, 2022 at 10:04 am

        It's hard to convince people these are good but they ARE. ~ karen!

        Reply
        • Nancy Berendt

          December 16, 2022 at 2:14 pm

          Recipe says old Cheese? Is that right or is it supposed to be COLD cheese?

        • Karen

          December 17, 2022 at 12:26 am

          Hi Nancy. It means old, otherwise known as aged cheddar. When buying the regular packages cheddar cheese usually comes as mild, medium or old. The older, the stronger it is. ~ karen!

    11. Tammie L Shurtleff

      December 16, 2022 at 6:13 am

      As awful as these sound, I HAVE to make them! One question; has anyone an opinion on which method of rolling is the best? Bacon on the outside or all the way through...hmmmm...the thought of soft bacon on the inside makes me gag, but then all the bacony goodness would be inside as well as outside, and how yummy will THAT be??? but if rolled just on the outside, then all the bacony goodness will be CRUNCHY, and how could THAT not be perfect?? Such a dilemma. HEEELLPPP!!!

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      • Karen

        December 16, 2022 at 10:02 am

        Hi Tammie! I've experimented over the past few years and it really doesn't make a difference. I've never ended up with soft, icky bacon even if part of it is rolled on the inside. ~ karen!

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