You just can’t beat a Maple & Bacon combo! They’re totally meant to be together. They’re the kind of partnership that’s ‘never had one fight’! The type of relationship that, if they were a real couple, and not a yummy food couple, they’d irritate everyone they know with their relationship perfection..LOL!
Maple & Bacon have got to be one of the most perfect food pairings of all time! 🙂
Just when you thought that those 2 flavors couldn’t possibly be improved, along comes sweet & sticky Maple cake drizzled in Bourbon Glaze! Seriously?! If you love a sweet, salty, sticky bite, these are for YOU!
~Just think of these as a chewy-gooey ‘Pancake’ bar filled with sweet Maple Syrup and salty Bacon. BOOM..Breakfast! ..yeah, that’s right! 🙂
What you’ll need:
1 lb of crispy and crumbled bacon! Yes, of course an entire pound..duh! 😉
2 cups good quality Maple Syrup
1 stick of unsalted butter
1 tsp. Vanilla extract
1 tsp. baking powder
2 cups flour
1 egg
Directions:
Boil the Maple Syrup until it’s thickened and slightly reduced..it took about 12 minutes or so at a good bubble (the longer it simmers the stickier your bars will be, so be patient)! Use a large pot because it bubbles up. Make sure not to let it turn into caramel. Once it’s thick, let it cool..while it’s cooling crisp up and crumble the bacon! 🙂
When the syrup has cooled and is warm, NOT hot..stir in the butter until it melts and combines.
Mix in all the other ingredients including the bacon..but mix in the flour last..in small batches to fully combine. Stir it up! 🙂
Spread it out evenly, onto a parchment lined, medium sized sheet pan and put it in the fridge to chill for about an hour.
Bake it at 350 for about 12 minutes, until slightly golden! When it’s done, let it cool!
While it’s baking make the Kentucky Bourbon glaze!
Simply add 2-3 tbsp. of Kentucky Bourbon to 1 cup of Powdered Sugar and mix well! This is a very strong and boozy glaze, not for kiddos! Keep some of the bars glaze-free for the little ones! 😉
Drizzle the top with the glaze…
Now, serve up a boozy, sticky maple-bacon dessert treat breakfast! ~Enjoy! 🙂
Oh my word! When you posted your bacon picture the other day on FB, I never would have imagined or guessed anything like this! Yum!
Haha!! :))
Yes, please. 🙂
Omg!!! This looks so delish! Gonna try these this weekend ! yum! 🙂
Your “Print” link does not work. It produces 10 pages of output, which is far beyond ridiculous. To speculate on the mental processes that would lead someone to think that was an appropriate way to format a recipe would surely violate every standard of polite communication, so I will choose to rely on the more comforting – if less plausible – assumption that it is a malfunction.
Could be the same mental process that doesn’t allow one to see the “remove images” box at the top of each print page. :). From there you can even remove unwanted paragraphs of text. One page is all you’ll be left with, which is
by far a more mentally stable way to go..lol. Hope that helps! 🙂
When you say “medium sized sheet pan”, can you be a little more specific on dimensions and depth? Recipe looks fantastic.
9×13..approx. 🙂
OK. The traditional 9×13 baking dish. Thanks.