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.
1ooooooh, I really want to try this!
2haha wow indeed
3How about with bacon wrapped hot dogs?
4hey, i'd try a piece
5this sounds so yummy!!!
6I am totally making this this week!!
7I made this for my boyfriend's b-day with no recipe and he totally LOVED it! It's so easy and fun!
8I love bacon and i love chocolate but i don't want to try them together.
9just looking at it i can feel my arteries clogging. it probably is good though.
10I'd probably try it.
11Eek!
12Why has everyone been making "XYZ" since they were 13? Or was that a jab at home girl on TNFNS?
13Oh. My. God. This is soooo sinful. I'd totally try it if it were offered to me but I don't think I'd make it. Except for a party and not tell anyone what it is until they eat it.
14I'll bet giggle would love this.
15Vosges (http://www.vosgeschocolate.com) makes chocolate bacon bars. Milk chocolate with applewood smoked bacon pieces and alder wood smoked salt, to be exact. It's pretty yummy, but my favorite Vosges bar is the one with goji berries and pink Himalayan salt. They also make chocolate with curry, wasabi, olives, chillis, etc. I've seen these chocolate bars sold at Whole Foods, World Market, and Central Market.
16Angelica, how right you are!
17I don't think I would enjoy this... but, I am not a fan of bacon. Now chocolate covered Pringles are delicious!
18Simply amazing....
Now I want to try chocolate covered bacon.
19I really have been cooking since I was 12, when my mom died, and one of the handwritten recipes I found in her recipe box is Pig Candy--bacon smothered in dark brown sugar and broiled until crispy. It sounds very lowbrow but it is soooo good!
So definitely yes, I am going to
try making this, probably using applewood smoked bacon! If it turns out well, I will make more this winter to put in the holiday treat baskets with instructions to "consume immediately", pig
noises optional. 
20i'm totally not into this idea - but i do have to say that i was watching the preview of the knew 'dinner impossible' on Food network and saw michael simon make chocolate covered bacon for his wildwood boardwalk challenge. people liked it - so just cause it's not my thing doesn't mean that everyone else won't like it.
21The Vosges bacon bar is tasty, but it's not bacony enough. It's got a hint of smoke, some nice salt, but is ultimately very subtle. I think I'd prefer the bacon actually dipped into the chocolate.
22i would give it a try.
23But its hard to beat chocolate-butterscotch covered potato chips for that sweet/salty fix
Weird but I'll try it!
24I'd try it, but I wouldn't go to the trouble of making it myself just to try it...
25two words...eww sick..im never eating bacon or chocolate again in my life! i made it bc i saw it on dinner impossible... sticking with starberries and chocolate!!!!
26Yummy, yummy in my tummy. A definite must do!
27Here is the original recipe: http://karagitz.blogspot.com/2005/09/chocolate-covered-bacon_28.html
28Leahreneeeex3 You said you wouldn't eat Bacon OR Chocolate again then you said you were going to stick with strawberries & chocolate.....Odd....how can you do that if you aren't going to eat chocolate again?????
Bacon & Chocolate are my two favorite foods...YUM
29I need to try this.
30o
Should I eat this before of after detox? Prae prandial or posh prandial (as the AM/PM people say).
AM/PM people meaning still using the outdated 7.27 PM when they actually mean the TIME is 19:27.
Maybe it does not look so cool as 7.27 PM. Post Meridiam is sooo coool. How about Ante Meridiem. Wow!
Listen folks the time is now 19:30. And don't forget the colon.
Ciao, Sawadee kap, Terve,
John K Lindgren
31www.carsanook.com
For all of you chocoholic meat lovers out there. This is it.The next batch will have peanuts on top. A new Xmas treat will hit the table this year
32Bought chocolate covered bacon for my boyfriend at a local fair and it was sooooooo good! He has been asking me to make it ever since and I finally did today. It's delicious!
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