Candied Bacon
Bacon baked with brown sugar until it snaps — Candied Bacon, Easy Candied Bacon, Dr. Pepper Candied Bacon, Sweet & Spicy Candied Bacon — for brunch or holidays.
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appetizerCandied Bacon 🥓
If the perfect food exists, it is definitely this sweet & spicy candied bacon.
Breanna StarkIngredients
- 8 slices Thick-cut Bacon
- 2 tbsp Light Brown Sugar
- 2 tsp Red Pepper Flakes (optional)
Instructions
- 1Start by laying your bacon out on a wire rack.
- 2Sprinkle the brown sugar on top of each slice of bacon. Measure with your heart.
- 3If you like spice, sprinkle the red pepper flakes on top. If you don’t like spice you can just skip this step.
- 4Now, I like to cook mine in the smoker but this recipe works great in the oven as well. Pre-heat your smoker or oven to 250°F.
- 5Let the bacon cook for about 30 minutes, or until it’s brown and crispy.
- 6Serve and enjoy!
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Bacon and brown sugar do something in a hot oven that neither one does alone. The sugar melts into the fat, the strips go glassy, and once they cool they break with a snap.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection at Christmas morning, for a baby shower brunch, or any time they want one thing on the table that everybody stands around and picks at.
Every recipe here starts with bacon and sugar and goes its own way from there — plain Candied Bacon with red pepper flakes, Easy Candied Bacon with maple syrup, Dr. Pepper Candied Bacon, Sweet & Spicy Candied Bacon with chili powder, and Jolly Rancher candied bacon if you want the kids in the kitchen.
Quick Tips
- 1
Line the pan first
Use foil and set a wire rack on top so the melted sugar doesn't weld the bacon to the sheet. Cleanup takes 30 seconds instead of 20 minutes of scrubbing.
- 2
Use thick-cut bacon
Thin slices burn before the sugar sets. Thick-cut holds up through 25 to 35 minutes at 350°F.
- 3
Cool before moving it
Let the strips sit on the rack 10 minutes after they come out. They're floppy hot and crisp once the sugar hardens.
- 4
Watch the last five minutes
Sugar goes from deep brown to burnt fast. Check every 3 to 4 minutes once the edges start bubbling hard.
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