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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Joy
I made this last night for my husband and kids. It was a hit! And I didn't bother to remove the crusts (actually, their favorite piece of bread used in this was the butt crust - it was crispier and still just as tasty). Winning recipe! Thanks, again, Karen (I had to search this one because I didn't have a chance to make it last year).
Joy
I should also say - I didn't have Dijon mustard, but I did have yellow mustard and Sriracha! I added about a tablespoon of Sriracha to the yellow mustard (to make the full 1/4 cup) and it was a really close match to the Dijon! :)
Karen
I'm glad they liked it! Good thinking with the regular mustard and the Sriracha. I never would have thought of that and instead probably would have just cried because I didn't have dijon, lol. ~ karen!
Robin
OMG Karen I had forgotten all about these bacon roll ups
I used to make them all the time with Heather.
I love your blog you are crazy nuts
I am hooked
Karen
Hey Robin! Welcome to my site. :) It's time for you to break out the recipe again … 'tis the season for bacon wraps! ~ karen
Janet Thomson
My friend in bacon:
I made a triple batch of these for 100 people at a PIG ROAST on Dec 23...the star of the the show was definately these second only to the pig which we wired to the spit at 3 a.m....in headlamps and blizzard appropriate clothing!
Every single last one was devoured!
Janet
Karen
Excellent! Coming in #2 to a pig is pretty good! ~ karen
Debbie Neal
I made them for the second time for our New Years Day party and they were all gone! My friends were addicted to them and were jockying around the table to get them as they came out of the oven. It was hilarious!
Karen
Lol, well that's the sign of a good appetizer! ~ karen
pam dickhaus
ok, don't know if i'll get to make the wraps today. i thought i had dijon mustard, but last night i hunted and hunted and hunted....and only came up with 2 bottles of yellow mustard. a friend gave me some honey mustard and some dijon honey mustard dressing, but, I don't know.....help! is there any way or any THING i can substitute for the dijon?
pam dickhaus
WOW!!!! Some of my most favorite ingredients - bacon, bacon, bacon and condensed milk and condensed milk and cheese! What's not to love? I am going out tomorrow and buying the ingredients i don't have so i can make these as a treat to go with Christmas dinner. My son and his fiance are going to love these (as will I. I just hope they get here before they're all gone!)
Karen
Let me know how you like them. I made mine in advance for my Christmas Eve dinner and froze them. But ... it's entirely possible I ate many of them. They're REALLY easy to pop out of the freezer and into the microwave. Too easy, lol. ~ karen!
Helana
They're in the oven baking; so not sure how they actually taste. But I've got to say the mustard / condensed milk combination is about the most delicious sweet mustard sandwich spread I've tasted. Thinking about mixing up the second can, calling it 'sweet dijon' and putting it out with the sandwich fixings. Had to resist (mostly) eating the leftover dregs with a spoon. ::: smiles ::: thanks for sharing.
Karen
Hah! I've actually never tried the condensed milk/mustard mixture on its own. Let me know how you liked 'em. ~ karen!
mimiindublin
This is going to be my entertaining food for all of Christmas. In fact, I might even make it my Christmas dinner!
And I see nothing wrong with ANY of those ingredients!
Estee
Condensed milk and Bacon? What's not to love??
SeaDee
If eating this concoction is the bar for being fun, well then I am SO fun.
I always keep sweetened condensed milk in the pantry; I'll eat it with a spoon when I'm out of ice cream and desperate!
Leslie
I'd eat that.
Debbie Neal
OMG! Well they tasted great, I just wonder how long that can had been on the shelf!
I crack myself up! Make Do Ladies! We can have a party with almost anything!
Debbie Neal
I thought they were pretty good. The friends scarfed them up! I had a few left which will go to my daughters party tomorrow night!
I was concerned when I opened the can of SC milk and it was kind of solid looking. I was expecting more of a liquid
It all worked out though! Thanks for a new twist on my bacon breadsticks!
Karen
Hmm. The milk should be liquid. The consistency of honey. ~ karen!
Debbie Neal
OK
I made them this afternoon for our girls present exchange! I did not however read all the way through the directions!
Half of them were bread side out and then when I realized that they should be bacon side out, I switched it! But, I took both versions to the party, and you know what? They liked them both.
Go figure!
Go Bacon!
Karen
Oh no, lol! Well at least they worked out anyway. I can't believe how quickly you made them! How did you like them? ~ karen!
Mindy
Who comes up with this shit? Seriously! They were either really stoned, or insane. And I am TOTALLY trying the recipe.
Jasmine
Sounds disgusting, and can't wait to try it. If you want something even easier then get the little potatoes (or cut big ones into golf ball sizes) toss them in oil and seasonings (if you want to be fancy, you don't even need to do that) and wrap a half a piece of bacon and roast tip done. Dip in full fat sour cream. Yum. Bacon is so fun, isn't it?
Shauna
I'm so making these for my New Year's Eve party. It's super duper fancy as I'm sure you can guess.
Marion
sounds delicious!!!
sera
These do sound pretty disgusting, but I may have to go for it anyway. Recently I went to a party and was served that velveeta and salsa dip with tortilla chips. I don't think I had ever had it before. My husband and I devoured nearly the whole bowl. It was so disgustingly good that we both got a craving for it two weeks later and ended up devouring an entire jar of the tostitos cheese dip, with a side of vegan chili. I was fine, but my husband isn't sure he can ever eat it again. Not that I should ever eat it again.
Karen
LOL. Liquid cheese is sure to make a pig of anyone. ~ karen!
marilyn
had 'em , love 'em, makin 'em..