These candied bacon crackers are the perfect addition to any gathering. Buttery Club crackers are topped with sweet and spicy candied bacon for a sweet and savory treat that has everyone coming back for more.
The holidays are almost here, and while we love our mains, sides, and desserts, we can’t forget about those tasty appetizers!
We love serving up all kinds of tasty appetizers for our holiday gatherings, from sweet treats like sweet potato bites to savory cheddar biscuit little smokies.
These delicious candied bacon crackers are the perfect addition to your holiday gathering or gameday celebration. They’re easy, sweet, spicy, and always a crowd-pleaser.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Limited Ingredients: It only takes a handful of simple ingredients to make these tasty bites.
- Easy: It only takes a little over 30 minutes to make these bites.
- Customizable: It’s easy to tweak this recipe to make it your own.
- Sweet, Salty, and Spicy: Every bite is filled with the sweet, smoky, salty, and spicy flavors of bacon, brown sugar, and red pepper.
Key Ingredients
You’ll find a complete list of ingredients and their exact amounts in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Club Crackers: Club Crackers are so buttery, making them perfect with the bacon.
- Brown Sugar and Red Pepper Flakes: A blend of brown sugar and red pepper flakes gives the bacon a sweet, spicy, smoky flavor.
Variations
- Bacon: Use your favorite brand and variety of bacon for this recipe. They all work, and each kind lends its own unique flavor to the recipe. We do recommend avoiding thick-cut bacon, however.
- Extra Zesty: Use this candied smoked bacon recipe with your crackers for even more flavor.
- Club Crackers: Any buttery cracker will work for this recipe.
- Mild: Omit the red pepper flakes for a sweet, smoky version with no heat.
How to Make Candied Bacon Crackers
- Line the crackers up on a wire rack situated over a baking sheet lined with foil. Cut the bacon into pieces that fit on the crackers.
- Mix the glaze ingredients in a small bowl and top the crackers with bacon and a teaspoon of the brown sugar mixture.
3. Bake at 350°F until the bacon is cooked through and caramelized.
Expert Tips
- Avoid thick-cut bacon. It takes too long to cook, and your crackers will end up getting soggy.
- It’s important to cook these crackers on an elevated rack. This allows plenty of air flow, so everything gets nice and crispy without any sogginess from grease.
FAQs
Candied bacon crackers are an appetizer combining candied bacon with a buttery Club Cracker base to create an appetizer with a rich, sweet, and savory flavor.
If you use thick-cut bacon, or you don’t bake the crackers on an elevated rack, they’ll get soggy.
Refrigerate your crackers for up to 3 days in an airtight container.
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Candied Bacon Crackers
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon
- 1 sleeve club crackers, 32 crackers
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
- Place a wire rack on top of the baking sheet and lightly spray it with non-stick cooking spray.
- Line the crackers on the rack.
- Cut each strip of bacon into 4 equal parts.
- In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, red pepper flakes, and black pepper.
- Place a piece of the cut bacon on top of each cracker followed by a teaspoon of brown sugar mixture.
- Press brown sugar down and even it out a bit.
- Bake for 22-25 minutes or until the bacon is cooked through and the mixture has caramelized.
Notes
- Avoid thick-cut bacon. It takes too long to cook, and your crackers will end up getting soggy.
- It’s important to cook these crackers on an elevated rack. This allows plenty of air flow, so everything gets nice and crispy without any sogginess from grease.
These are so yummy! I love the buttery crackers with the salty, smoky bacon. Om nom nom.
These are crazy good. I made them last night, and from now on, I’ll ONLY make them for parties. I ate them ALL.
What a unique appetizer! These will definitely be a hit on game day weekends…love candied bacon!
Delish! I’ve made the candied crackers before but this was my first time adding bacon. They were such a hit, I’ll probably make them this way every time from now on!