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.
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
Just look at those ingredients. I mean, they makes no sense at all.
Condensed milk, Worcestershire sauce, and mustard???
The bread make sense. Everyone likes bread.
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
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.
Place them on a rack over a cookie sheet & bake until irresistible.
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.
These are my families favourite Christmas appetizers. Salty, crispy, gooey and slightly sweet.
Bacon Wraps
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
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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Tigersmom
You're killing me. It's hard to find cute clothes in size moo.
gabrielle
Actually, it's easier than ever to find moo-sized cute clothes, just google! :-)
... that said, this recipe DID make me vomit. And not just in my mouth. I will be making it this season, though - it is right up the alley belonging to the men in my house!
UuuuuurRPP!
Sally A.
OMG! That made me literally laugh out loud! Bad since I'm at work! :o) Thank you!
Laura Bee
Dear Lord I want to try these. I am a fun girl. Maybe for boxing day at my sister's place. Bacon & cheese. mmmmm
Irene
Trying to figure out what a fingerful is. Images of a hollowed out finger spring to mind. No matter, there are many fingers in this world, and if that's what it takes to eat this...
:-D
karol
You had me at bacon.
Jeannie
My husband makes bacon wrapped dates. Super yummy and really easy. Wrap a pitted date with 1/2 a slice of bacon and secure it with a toothpick. Broil until crispy.
sera
I've made this before. So delicious!
And they're great if you stuff the dates with blue cheese first. Bacon and cheese. That's what makes everything good!
Trish
Jeannie, if you like blue cheese try stuffing the pitted date with some and then wrapping it in the bacon.....pretty awesome
Lisa
We call them Devils on Horseback - totally popular in the 70's and 80's and now have made a comeback. Love them!
Grammy
I'm sorry, but at my house we never, ever eat anything so horribly artery-clogging. Never. Ever. I must make these for Christmas morning. I will make them. I hope there will be a few left to serve to guests. Perhaps there will be. It could happen.
But, hey! I thought you Canadians called those funny little round ham-like things bacon. That's obviously real bacon you've got there.
Karen
You're referring to Peameal bacon. Or "Canadian Bacon". Which from what I can ascertain, most Canadians don't like. Myself included. ~ karen!
Susan Whelan
At the fair! Canadians love peameal bacon on a bun from the Shriners (or whatever) trailer at the fair! Tastes completely different when you're walking down the midway. But that's the only correct place to eat peameal bacon.
Laura Bee
Susan is absolutely right. Best eaten at a Fair. Lion's Club Peameal is the best. And their pancake breakfasts.
Shauna
How on earth do you eat an Egg McMuffin then?
Jenny
Last week I told a friend I was craving a pizza with Canadian Bacon (live in US) - at which point he said, what do you think they call ham in Canada? I laughed and researched it and learned all about dead pig variations. I had never heard of Peameal bacon until last week!
Barbie
OMG! I am one of those "un-fun" healthy eater people you talk about...HOWEVER....when it comes to yummy holiday foodie stuff like THIS.....the naughty eater in me just takes right over! Those look absolutely decadent! My mouth is starting to water!! I may need to make a trip to the market right NOW.
Rhonda SmartyPants
Frankly, these remind me of those pinwheel cheesey hot saucey thingys some weird uncle of yours made - Uncle Shifty's Antojitos? Something like that. His name sure looks awfully close to that whole 'shitty' post you posted a few nights ago. And now we've got tonight's goat shit reference...I'll be glad when this whole Shitty Appy season is over. I can't imagine what next year will bring.
Karen
LOL! ~ karen
Shauna
Although the combination sounds revolting, because I like each and every one of those ingredients, I'm willing to entertain the possibility that this could taste good. (Of course, bacon-wrapped anything, even goat shit, could taste good.) My concern is this: does the bacon that winds up inside the jelly roll get crispy? Soft bacon fat... I feel nauseated just thinking about it.
Karen
NO it doesn't Shauna. That was my fear as well. Ick! If you want to make double sure you can roll up the bread and mustard mixture first, THEN wrap all of that in bacon. THat way the bacon is only on the outside. ~ karen!
Lisa
When I make say bacon wrapped dates I pre-bake the bacon in the oven so that they are still flexible, cool then wrap. The combination is so weird that I can't wait to try this. I just found this site and am loving it. I signed up and followed on IG!
PoMoMom
So gross I want to make it! Looks like thick cut bacon too, not the slimy stuff. Mmm
Melissa
Bacon? Yum! Cheese? Yum! Sweetened condensed milk? Yum! What's not to love?
Valerie
Happy appy season.
Your recipe looks interesting and may even replace the bacon wraps I have made in the past.
In that recipe you wrap the half bacon strip around a halved water chess nut and a small piece of chicken liver, brushed with garliced soya sauce and bake for the same time as your recipe. If anyone makes the chicken liver one I discovered that plunging the chicken livers in a bowl of hot water for a few minutes prior to preparing makes rolling much easier.
Karen do you have more appy recipes?
Karen
Oh yes. I love appetizers. I especially love you referring to the season as Happy appy season! ~ karen
amyfaith
Yes! They're called Rumaki. When I was a kid in the 60's & 70's, these were considered the ne plus ultra of fancy cocktail party hors d'oeuvres, served only by the smartest of hostesses (and yes, I did have to look up the spelling of 'hors d'oeuvres').
I got an urge to go old school and made them last year for a New Years party we were attending at a friends house. I thought that the chicken liver would turn off most of the attendees (if so, more for me, so no problem there!), but surprisingly, they were a huge hit and even several of the children tried and liked them. Thanks for the hot water tip; I'll definitely try that.
Dana
My mom made rumaki all the time when I was growing up , but I didn't know about the chicken liver! I'm going to keep on believing that she didn't add them. Because, ew!
Marti
Earlier today, I was reading the delicately written prose about "Christmas in Jane Austen's Day."
And now I read about goat shit and … what was it? Scabs. Well, whatever. Those look absolutely perfect for making the night before Christmas, putting in the fridge and serving while the Christmas gifts are being opened. Thanks!
Karen
Oh stop. You make me blush. I know I have a way with words, but ... it's nice to hear someone gush about it. ~ karen
Edith
Dang! Don't make my mouth water when I'm already in bed. And now my stomach is growling too. I can smell that bacon. MMMMMM.
Susan Preston
Yummy!!
Stephanie Hobson
Oh my, I want this. Right. Now!
Karen
Really? Even after reading the ingredients? And not having tasted one? Really? I did a fantastic sell job. I deserve some sort of award. ~ karen!
Victoria
Omg. That looks delicious!
Amie
That sounds hideous. I want one!
Sue Schneider
Seriously?! Oh my! Paleo diet! Hide your eyes until Wednesday!!
Ella
What was the goat shit thing that you made up? I hope I didn't miss it.