The Beer Czar: beer candied bacon

Dec 11, 2014

Beer Candied Bacon Bark....oh my!

OK, so my crush on the Beeroness is now complete! Beer Candied bacon, in chocolate bark? I can't think of a better treat for your next holiday get together, or homemade gift idea for the beer lover in your life!! Check this out, its simple, delicious and is sure to be a hit! Check out the Beeroness's complete write up on this recipe as well as additional holiday gift idea's for the beer lover from this amazing woman here......

Beer Candied Bacon Bark

Ingredients

6 strips thick sliced bacon
½ cup brown sugar
2 tbs stout beer
pinch cayenne
10.5 wt oz dark chocolate (72% cacao content)
¼ cup pale ale beer
1/3 cup smoked almonds

Directions

Preheat oven the 350.

In a sauce pan over medium high heat, bring the brown sugar, stout and cayenne to boil, boil for one minute.

Place the bacon on a wire rack over a baking sheet. Brush the bacon on each side with sugar mixture.

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes, flip, re-brush with sugar mixture, bake for ten more minutes until bacon is a dark brown. Remove from oven, allow to cool. Bacon will harden as it cools. Chop the bacon once it has cooled.

In the top of a double boiler over gently simmering water add half the chocolate, make sure the heat isn’t too high or the chocolate will seize. Stir constantly until chocolate is almost melted. Slowly stir in the beer until well combined. Remove from heat. Stir in the remaining chocolate until melted and well combined. Stir in the smoked almonds.

Pour chocolate onto a baking sheet that has been covered with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Sprinkle with chopped bacon. Chill until set. Break into pieces.

(you can check out my previous recipe for beer candied bacon bacon here....)

Another amazing recipe from this incrediable chef! If you ask me, she has, by far the best cooking with beer site on the web. Check out this, and all her great recipes at www.thebeeroness.com

Until next time

Bottoms up my friends

The Beer Czar

Oct 15, 2014

Cooking with beer - Beer-Candied Bacon

I have posted this recipe before as part of a Fathers Day breakfast. I was actually asked to post it again on its own. So, here it is.....this look fantastic!

Beer-Candied Bacon

1 lb thick-cut, high quality bacon
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup + 2 tbsp beer ( I like to use a nice brown ale)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine brown sugar and beer in a small bowl, whisking well to form a thin syrup. Set aside.
Line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place a wire cooling rack on top. Place the pieces of bacon on top of the rack, overlapping if necessary. Place in oven and cook for 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and brush one side of the bacon with the beer syrup. Flip, and coat the other side with the syrup as well. Return to oven and cook for 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and repeat process another time or two more, until bacon is crispy and browned, and you have used all the glaze.

Cool on wire rack for at least 1 hour before serving.