The Before:
‎1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
12 slices of thick cut bacon cut in half
Preheat oven to 375
Combine all other dry ingredients in a ziplock baggie. Add bacon and work bag to coat bacon thickly with sugar. Cover a baking sheet with tinfoil and lay a baking rack on top. Twist bacon into candy canes shape and lay on rack. Set timer for 10 minutes and bake. Check after 15 minutes and if not crisp and candied keep checking every 5 minutes until done.
Optional, if you want it really peppery, Lay slices of bacon on wax paper and grind generous amounts of black pepper on them. Pat pepper onto bacon. Let sit for 20 minutes, flip, and repeat pepper on other side. Or use peppered bacon.
Right out of the oven:
All cool and any excess fat blotted off:
It would be a great stir stick for a bacon vodka martini.
‎1/2 cup light brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
12 slices of thick cut bacon cut in half
Preheat oven to 375
Combine all other dry ingredients in a ziplock baggie. Add bacon and work bag to coat bacon thickly with sugar. Cover a baking sheet with tinfoil and lay a baking rack on top. Twist bacon into candy canes shape and lay on rack. Set timer for 10 minutes and bake. Check after 15 minutes and if not crisp and candied keep checking every 5 minutes until done.
Optional, if you want it really peppery, Lay slices of bacon on wax paper and grind generous amounts of black pepper on them. Pat pepper onto bacon. Let sit for 20 minutes, flip, and repeat pepper on other side. Or use peppered bacon.
Right out of the oven:
All cool and any excess fat blotted off:
It would be a great stir stick for a bacon vodka martini.