Chocolate coated homemade bacon

[Shagdog]

So... It's brethren GSXR883's birthday Tuesday, and he's my good buddy. *He's on my BBQ team, we work together, and we make craploads of bacon together. *Between the 2 of us we've easily made over 300lbs worth in the last six months. *Anyways, I was trying to figure out what to bring him, then it hit me, he loves bacon, and he loves chocolate.*

Before I begin, I should mention, I don't do this. *Unless it had a pulse recently, it's not really something I would be into. *I don't bake. *I mean, I can bake. *I've made breads and some cookies, but I'm not really into it, and I've never done candy, but after a few beers, everything sounds easy, so what the hell, let's do this!

First, I got me some chocolate -

And of course, I need a beer for this -

Next I got some bacon from the freezer. *The bacon I'll be using is homemade. *Here is a link to the bacon creation -*http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=174710

Then I fried me up some bacon. *

Next, it's time to break up the chocolate. *I used a combo of milk and some extra dark. *I don't know if that's what you're supposed to do or not, but it tasted pretty farking good!

Made a double boiler on the stove and melted the chocolate

Note the awesome 1965 Roper gas range and terrible gold and white counters. We're rehabbing this old jalopy of a house, I'm currently building new cabinets and there's a brand new Bosch stove, sitting it the basement, just waiting for me to get my butt in gear. It's killin me. Back to the action!

Next I dipped all the bacon and laid it out on wax paper. *Then I sprinkled it with a light coat of ancho powder and some cherry smoked sea salt I made a while back. *

Then I put the trays outside to set the chocolate. Ten minutes later...

Next I melted some white chocolate to drizzle over the top. *I think I was overly confident at this point... Needless to say, less than stellar results. *Shoulda quit while I was ahead. *

Let the white set, and...

That's it. *Thanks for looking. *Oh, and it's delicious. *Salty, sweet, savory. *The Mrs. was harassing me about making this, said it was gross and a waste of good bacon, but she tried it and now says I need to hide it from her..*

 

[Dirtbuddy]

Oh mY! And to think I have over 20 packs of home made vacuumed sealed back in the freezer......thx!

 

[madavis303]

Looks and and sounds outstanding. Your buddy is going to have a great birthday.

 

[Shagdog]

Looks and and sounds outstanding. Your buddy is going to have a great birthday.

Thanks! He better! We're also going out for churrasco tomorrow, so he's either going to have a great birthday, or a heart attack. Not sure which yet..

 

[Diesel Dave]

Dang that's way tasty lookin :thumb:

Great job shag :heh:

 

[Shagdog]

Thanks, brother. How are the ribs coming?

 

[Diesel Dave]

You're welcome.
They're just about done, these are taking a bit longer than expected. So I ate a doughnut :laugh:

 

[Shagdog]

Hey why not. Too bad you're across the lake, I'd offer you some bacon and spares.. Pretty much all I've eaten today.

 

[smoke ninja]

You should try chocolate wrapped bacon next.

 

[93vpmod]

I'm in...what a great gift!

 

[Diesel Dave]

Dang sure do wish I was closer, that sounds great!!!

With the wind we've got it's been going through wood at different rates and I'm having some big temp fluctuations

 

[Shagdog]

You should try chocolate wrapped bacon next.

I like it. If I can figure out how to cook the bacon without melting the chocolate, I'll totally try it.

 

[smoke ninja]

A bacon weaved Hershey bar. Mmm.

 

[buccaneer]

What a great mate you are!
Love the creativeness too, well done bro!!! :clap2:

 

[Al Czervik]

I'd love to be snacking on that right now... Way to think out of the box! :mrgreen:

 

[Shagdog]

Thanks, guys. I think I may need to test a couple more pieces for QC purposes... Chocolate bacon breakfast anyone? :thumb:

 

[robbq]

I just read your amazing bacon thread from a few months ago. Great thread! I always assumed bacon was cold smoked. Very cool to see it hot smoked and still come out right to be stored and cooked like bacon. Thanks for posting that. And this, the chocolate bacon looks great.

 

[tish]

Oh, my! That looks like the ultimate snack, and I think the addition of the white chocolate was pure genius. Great job! :thumb:

 

[93vpmod]

Thinking about your chocolate covered bacon Shag and I wanted to take it up another notch...ever considered a chocolate drizzled, bacon wrapped fatty?

I bet someone will do this in the near future.

Great looking appetizer, desert, entree???!!!

 

[Shagdog]

appetizer, desert, entree???!!!

Yes, yes, and yes.

A chocolate covered bacon wrapped fatty, eh? Throw in some beer and I'm sold! :thumb: