A little while back the Internet went crazy for chocolate-covered bacon. Like every bacon lover, I fantasized about tasting the ultimate salty-sweet combination of bacon and chocolate. Instead of hopping in a car and heading to the Santa Cruz store that makes the pork-chocolate treat, I decided to experiment with my own variation. If I've been making chocolate-covered strawberries since I was 13, I can most certainly make chocolate-covered bacon! 
The process is straightforward: it involves two simple ingredients and an even simpler cooking technique. The result is an oddly delicious dessert with a rich, delicate balance of sugar and smoke. So scrumptious, homemade chocolate-covered bacon is the ultimate edible gift. To see the recipe, read more.
Original recipe by PartySugar
Ingredients
6-8 slices thick cut, best-quality bacon
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
4 ounces white chocolate, melted, optional for garnish
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Place the bacon on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in the oven, until bacon is cooked to your liking. 15 minutes for soft bacon, 20 minutes for crispy bacon.
- Let bacon cool on the parchment paper for 5 minutes then transfer to a plate lined with paper towels.
- Meanwhile set up a double boiler. Heat a large saucepan filled with water over high heat until boiling. Reduce heat to a simmer.
- Set a heat-proof bowl over the simmering water. Add the chocolate chips and stir with a fork until smooth and completely melted.
- Cover another baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Using tongs, carefully dip the bacon into the melted chocolate turning to coat all sides in chocolate. Transfer to the clean sheet of waiting parchment paper. Repeat with remaining slices of bacon.
- Drizzle with the white chocolate, if desired.
- Refrigerate until chocolate is hard.
- Once cool, enjoy!
Makes 6-8 slices of chocolate-covered bacon.
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- The ingredients are surprisingly simple.
- If you've never baked your bacon, you should definitely give it a try.
- Unless a recipe needs bacon grease, I always bake it.
- Waiting for the water to boil.
- My make shift double boiler.
- Whisk the chocolate until smooth.
- Coat the bacon in chocolate.
- Let the chocolate harden and cool.
- Drizzle with white chocolate.
- I also happened to have strawberries in my house, so I dipped a few in chocolate as well to serve along side the bacon.
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the only word i have for that is : wow. just wow.
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