Part of B's birthday present last year was a Frozen Peanut Butter Pie with Candied Bacon. It was my first really extravagant cooking endeavor and I'm still a little surprised I pulled it off.
It was crazy good, but a lot of work! Candying bacon is serious business! I suffered a really horrible burn from the melted sugar that took like a month to heal.
This year, I knew I didn't want to do anything quite so involved (or dangerous!). I also knew that time would be short this weekend, so I wanted to do breakfast on Saturday morning and then be done with it. Enter the Bacon Cinnamon Roll.
I started with a 8 slices of platter bacon and a tube of store-bought cinnamon rolls (although can you imagine how great these would be with your mom's homemade cinnamon roll recipe!? Whoah).
I unrolled each cinnamon roll (I had to use a knife to separate the dough, but it wasn't difficult) and placed a piece of bacon on top of each strip of dough.
My bacon was actually both too long and too wide for the dough that I bought, so I sliced a bit off each end and then sliced the bacon lengthwise so it wasn't so wide.
Then I just rerolled each cinnamon roll with the bacon inside,
And placed them in a greased baking dish.
I cooked them according to the package instructions (375 degrees for about 15 minutes):
And then frosted them using the frosting that came with the package.
Hold on to your hats, friends. These things are like crack. Salty and sweet and cinnamon-y and bacon-y. Your house will smell amazing. You will eat half of them and get sick to your stomach.
I actually only had one. B had three. We're taking the rest to my father-in-law.
I have a feeling these will be making a reappearance on Christmas morning.
Or maybe tomorrow morning...
