Bacon Wrapped Pretzels

Bacon Wrapped Pretzels
Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 40 minutes
Ingredients

1 package of bacon – hickory, maple, etc.
2 cups Brown Sugar
3 Tbsp Red Chili Powder
Dash or two (or three!) Cayenne Pepper
1 Package Pretzel Rods

Preparation

Break the pretzels in half for appetizer bites. If you halve the pretzel, halve the bacon slices too.

Mix the brown sugar, chili powder & cayenne together and spread out on a large flat dish.

Coat each strip of bacon on both sides with the brown sugar mixture.

Wrap the bacon around the pretzel.

Place the delicious treat on a wire rack placed on top of a baking sheet or roasting pan; I try to make sure that the tail end of the bacon I just wrapped is on the bottom to try and avoid having it ‘unwrap’ during cooking.

Note: By placing the bacon on top of a rack, the renderings (ie: fat/grease) will drop into the baking sheet, leaving the bacon to crisp and your oven clean.

Bake at 375 for about 10 minutes or until bacon cooks and appears crisp.

IMPORTANT: Let cool on wire rack and rearrange occasionally while cooling so they don’t stick to rack. Do not put these on paper towels; they are sticky!

Let cool although I like them warm, but fresh out of the oven? Too hot (and I’m not talking spicy either!).

Notes

Thicker cut is not better. You need the bacon to cook without burning the pretzels…so regular bacon is best. I know…I tested this theory once. Trust me.

For Easy clean up: I line my baking sheet with aluminum foil. After they are baked and removed to a serving dish, I put hot water in the baking sheet, put the wire rack in there to soak a bit and the caramel bacon yucky stuff will melt away. (Not true about the fat on our thighs after eating the entire batch of bacon pretzels!).

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