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Candied Smoked Bacon

A delicious candied bacon recipe that takes store-bought bacon over the top.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Total Time1 hour
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Bacon, Candied Bacon
Servings: 18 Slices
Author: Deliciously Seasoned

Ingredients

  • 24 ounce Applewood smoked or Pecanwood smoked bacon thick cut

For the Seasoning

Instructions

  • Do NOT preheat oven.
  • Place bacon on a baking sheet(s) lined with parchment paper, min ¼" between each slice.
  • Place in oven and set at 330° for 20 min.

For the Seasoning

  • In a small bowl, whisk all the seasoning ingredients together. Set aside.
  • After 20 minutes pull bacon from oven and flip the slices of bacon over. Place back in oven.
  • Pull bacon out again after 5 min and sprinkle with seasoning covering the bacon thoroughly but not too thick and place back into the oven.
  • Every 5 min, open oven and shake the baking sheet to coat top of bacon with hot bacon fat (this makes that nice crunchy/soft texture on top).
  • Bacon is done when top edge of the bacon is the color of coffee.
  • Remove from the oven and place bacon on a wire rack to cool. It's very, very sticky until it has cooled completely.

Notes

Recipe from James, my cousin Holli's husband.