Caramelized Bacon Recipe

Or, as my family called it this Thanksgiving, "Bacon Candy".
This recipe was a HUGE success at the Thanksgiving Dressing Rehearsal we held at our Buckhead showroom last month!

Ingredients:
2 pounds Sliced Regular Bacon
(not thick sliced)
4 cups White Sugar

Method:
• Preheat convection oven to 325°F.
• Prepare two cookie sheets by lining them with a sheet of aluminum foil (although not necessary, this helps with cleanup) and place a cooling rack onto each one.
• Place the sugar into a 9”x11” casserole dish.
• Place a slice of bacon into the sugar, gently press the bacon into the sugar, turn the bacon over and gently press again to coat both sides of the bacon with sugar.
• Lay the sugar coated bacon slices onto the cookie sheet/cooling rack.
• When all of the bacon has been coated, place the cookie sheets of bacon into the oven and cook the bacon until it is slightly darker than golden brown, more of a mahogany color.
• Remove the bacon from the oven and using a pair of tongs, transfer the cooked bacon to another cookie sheet that has been lined with a sheet of parchment paper and cool completely.
• Arrange the cooled bacon onto a serving platter, stacking the slices in the same fashion that one would use to build a log cabin. (ie. two slices placed horizontally, topped with two slices placed vertically, two slices placed horizontally, etc….)

Joel Saxon
Executive Chef
Insperience Studio by Whirlpool Corporation