Bacon dipped chocolate.
It seems to be all the rage lately. Personally, I thought it just sounded weird. But if that many people are buying and selling it, I figured there had to be something to it. I had been meaning to make a more manly cupcake and so today I decided was the day.
I made a, wait for it, Maple bacon cupcake with chocolate ganache, maple frosting, and chocolate dipped bacon. you can let your breath out now. I can't eat them of course since they have gluten but the frosting was absolutely delish. (and I may have had a nibble of bacon in the chocolate. dangerous.)
They may sound crazy but I really think you're going to want to try these.
Maple Bacon Cupcakes
Ingredients
Cupcakes
- 4 1/2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
- 1/2 tablespoon bacon drippings (left in the fridge to become solid)
- 1 egg, beaten
- 5 tablespoons brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons Grade B maple syrup
- 1 1/4 cup self rising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1/4 cup milk [whole is supposed to be the best, I used 1% because that is what was in the house]
- 1/4 cup crumbled bacon, cooked and drained
- The rest of the bacon for garnish
1. Cook the bacon! I cooked all of it at once. Save some of the drippins' and put them in the fridge to solidify. (yah, that was definitely something that I never thought I would do - put bacon fat in my fridge)
crumble about 1/4 cup of bacon and then save the rest for garnish
2. Beat the crap out of the butter and solidified bacon fat 'till light and creamy. Thank goodness for my Kitchenaid Stand Mixer!.Add the brown sugar and maple syrup and beat well until combined.
3. Add the egg and beat until incorporated.
4. Sift the flour, salt, baking soda and powder together.The recipe said this was supposed to be a fine crumb. It definitely was not for me, it was very gooey and smooth.
5. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture and mix, then 1/2 of the milk, then continue to alternate the dry and wet ingredients, ending with the dry. Mix until just combined. Fold in the bacon.
6. Now the recipe was for normal size cupcakes in which case you would want to scoop the batter into cupcake papers and bake at 350 F for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.I made mini cupcakes so I just baked them for 12 minutes.
Next I made the frosting
Maple Frosting
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons Grade B maple syrup
- 1 cup of powdered sugar
Combine the syrup and butter until combined. Add the sugar, a bit at a time, and whip at high speeds until combined. Pipe or spread onto cupcakes.
and then I topped it with the chocolate dipped bacon!!
I put a glass bowl over a pot filled with water for a double boiler. I put about 1/2 the bag of Hershy's milk chocolate chips in with a little corn syrup and a little milk and stirred until smooth. Once the chocolate melted I dipped all the pieces of bacon that I had broken up earlier. I made my pieces a bit smaller since they were mini cupcakes. The extra chocolate went straight to the cupcakes before being frosted, adding a little something extra.
Then you just put it all together.
Boom.
The roommate has eaten about 5 already and it hasn't even been 10 hours.
Some people at work were a bit hesitant to try. I tried to warn people at first because if you are expecting chocolate and vanilla and you get bacon it kind of can throw you off. One of the responses I got was "it's like breakfast....a breakfast cupcake!. you know, like when you pour maple syrup on your pancakes and then rub your bacon through the extra syrup!" I chuckled. Considering I work in a male dominated work environment, I thought it would be just the place to try a recipe like this out. I'm going to call it a success!
In other news, it is Thanksgiving week! and I have almost all of my christmas gifts for everyone bought and wrapped!
Have a wonderful week!
