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)
Video
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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Heather
How could these not be excellent? They have my two favourite food groups Bacon and Sweetened Condensed Milk. Thanks Karen, I will make these tomorrow.
Sharon
You forgot to mention how goopy they are to make - but that is half the fun - your pictures make the creation look very neat - maybe it is just me - have had the recipe for years from you sister - love it !
Nancy Blue Moon
My heart Dr. is not going to like this..But I'm pretty sure a few of them will not kill me..maybe..but I'm willing to take my chances..My son is a bacon & a cheese addict so I don't have to worry about the rest of them..also he likes Canadian Bacon which just seems to be little slices of ham to me..Is it OK to cut this in half to make less?
Karen
Well Nancy, normally I'd tell you to double the recipe, but if you need to half it you can, lol. ~ karen
NikiDee
Just when I thought you couldn't out do the Antojitos recipe ~ you bring us Bacon Wraps! Oh. My. Gawd. I would make these this second if I weren't the only one home. Otherwise, all I could do is tell my family how good they were...after I wake from my bacon wrap coma.
BGrigg
I've had these. They are simply decadent. If you want stupidly over the top deliciousness, add maple syrup to the condensed milk. A spicier variant replaces cheddar with jalapeno Monterey jack cheese. Breaking them into smaller pieces sounds like something someone willing to share would do. I don't. They're MINE!
PoMoMom
American cheese Carol? What is that anyway? Cheddar? Cheese wiz? Those plastic squares? I'm never sure when I see it in a recipe. -however I love Canadian bacon! De Dutch serves it and it's fabulous!
Thera
It looks good, but I am kinda scared of trying it LOL!
Cathy
Well I'm torn between wanting to try these or not. Given my addictive gene goes into overdrive when it comes to certain foods, I hesitate.
Then again, I could make some and feed some of the the walking Xrays I work with....
Ev
Well, I'm guessing they are better than "goat shit and scabs"! Did you offer these to the Canadian Living people? I will have to try these on my unsuspecting family. "Crispy bacon" and all. Thanks Karen!
Mary Werner
Reminds me of a song we used to sing as kids:
Great, green gobs of greasy grimy, gopher guts, mutilated, monkey meat, petrified, porpoise pus, AND me without my spoon!
Sally A.
Don't forget the little birdies dirty feet! :o)
Debbie Neal
I am making these this afternoon for my girlfriends present /wine party! They sound amazing. I also make one that uses Pepperidge Farm breadsticks (if you can find them) and you wrap a slice of the better thin sliced bacon around like a barber pole and bake them until the bacon is cooked and then roll in Parmesan cheese! Delish!
Amber
I can't believe you rejected the Bacon and Bourbon Hot Chocolate in favour of this. I'm terribly disappointed. I'll have to eat lots of bacon to feel better.
Karen
LOL! ~ karen
Suanne
Sounds very interesting. Will definately be trying these at our Christmas gathering. Thanks Karen!
Tisha
I'm intrigued *and* grossed out so I think I need to try these
jainegayer
OMG!!! I must make these for my son, the bacon freak!
And he married a vegetarian last August. Where did I go wrong?
Kyle
Sounds disgusting. Let's get started.
Su
Happy appy season! love it.... now I need to make these thingys....
Feral Turtle
You totally need a goat! It will babysit your chickens while you are on holidays, and aid you in the making of goat shit and scab wraps! This recipe looks so good!! Pinning.
Carol
Looks absolutely incredibly delicious. I may try instead of my bacon wraps:
Bake potato puffs (don't know the exact name but they are about the size of a small roll of thread?) according to package directions but for only about 2/3 of the require time.
Wrap each with 1/3 piece of American cheese and 1/2 slice of bacon
Bake until bacon is done to taste.
For dipping, mix 2/3 cup of mustard and 1/3 cup of brown sugar.
Yum!
magali
I am in awe at this recipe right now!
I think it's a rule that all the best recipes for Christmas have bacon and other gross ingredients in them. My favourite hot dip has cream cheese, mayo, cheese, bacon and Ritz cracker crumbs in it. I ate so much one New Years Eve I got stomach cramps. Then I went out to see the fireworks at midnight and came back to the party and ate some more.
Karen
Hah! On my birthday I ate spaghetti and meatballs until I could stand straight because I had such bad stomach pains. Good for you! ~karen