Bacon Cupcake - Feast Your Eyes

by Nanette Maxim, Posted Jun 1st 2010 @ 10:00AM

Pancakes and bacon are a classic breakfast combo, so why not cupcakes with bacon for the same salty sweet rush in a dessert? Blogger Garrett at vanillagarlic puts the pork (complete with a little rendered bacon fat) and maple syrup into a buttery cupcake, and tops it with an ultra-sweet frosting made with maple syrup, turbinado sugar, powdered sugar and, for balance (which, I suppose, is balance on some sugar-addled planet), some sea salt. But this is dessert, people, so for today, abandon the guilt and enjoy something over the top. (We featured this cupcake in 2007, when it was introduced, but liked it so much we're bringing it back for an encore.)

Check out our other posts for baconistas, including a recent Feast Your Eyes post on how to cook with candied bacon. And share your weird bacon combos in the comments section below.

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Filed Under: Feast Your Eyes
Tags: bacon, bacon cupcakes, BaconCupcakes, cupcakes

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6-01-2010 @10:24AM TA said... ZZzzzzZZZ snooze. really? bacon cupcakes were last year.
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6-01-2010 @11:56AM Angiebaby said... Mmmm. I could go for a jalapeno cornbread muffin cooked in a cupcake paper and topped with a little slather of sour cream & chive icing sprinkled with a crispy bacon. And what a fun surprise when people bit into it!
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6-01-2010 @12:51PM Penny said... Wow! Now that sounds delicious! I love jalepeno cornbread, but have never made muffins from the dough. And toppping with sour cream, chives and crisp bacon is really over the top. I will be trying that!

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6-01-2010 @5:00PM Nanette said... Penny and Angiebaby: Check out this recipe for jalapeño cornbread from Marcus Samuelsson. I think it would work really well in your recipe: http://www.kitchendaily.com/recipe/jalapeno-corn-bread-142874. And thanks for ideas. --Nanette
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6-02-2010 @12:06PM Chris said... There are many many bits of American cuisine that I love - New York Pizzas, Chicago Chili Dogs, Jambalaya, Buffalo Wings, the Burger, good Sonoma Zinfandel, the list goes on and on. I just don't get the obsession with mixing sweet and savoury at breakfast. My American ex used to have waffles, bacon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, on the same plate all covered in maple syrup. It used to make me gag. I have nothing against the individual items,in fact she totally converted me to waffles and maple syrup, I just eat the sweet after the savoury, like I do at every other meal!

Oh, and that weird thing you have at thanksgiving, the sweet potatoes with the marshmallow topping. I don't get that either.
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