Deep Fried Bacon Wrapped Cream Cheese Bites

You know how great cream cheese tastes after you spread it on a warm bagel? These deep fried bacon wrapped cream cheese bites are pretty much that times 100!

I came up with the idea for these the same way I come up with most of the ridiculous stuff I make: I was standing in my kitchen staring at a block of cream cheese in my refrigerator and my brain immediately thought, “You should definitely wrap that in bacon and deep fry it!”

Wrapping an entire block of cream cheese in bacon and just eating it like that though would be crazy, even for me so I made sure to slice it into eight smaller cubes first.

Once I had my cream cheese cubes I tossed them in panko breadcrumbs, dipped them in a mixture of egg and milk and then back into the breadcrumbs a second time just to ensure they were fully coated. It was only then that I wrapped them in bacon and deep fried them.

Don’t get me wrong, I still ate them all at once, but for some reason I felt a whole lot better about myself eating eight smaller cubes of deep fried bacon wrapped cream cheese than I would have felt had I eaten the entire block and the eight strips of bacon separately. It’s all about perspective I guess….

 

So what did they taste like? Imagine the best parts of a bacon wrapped jalapeño popper without that pesky vegetable in the middle trying to trick you into thinking you’re being healthy. Each bite had the crunch from the bacon and the panko breading followed by the warm, melty cream cheese that basically oozed out like lava. They were definitely a little messy, but absolutely worth it!

Listen, I’m not here to tell you this is health food. If anything, this is the type of food that would make your doctor give you that look where they pretend like they’re not judging you but they totally are. At least that’s how my doctor always seems to look at me… I did dip them in grape jelly though and grapes are a fruit so I guess in a way these are a little bit healthy.

Either way, life’s too short to eat boring food. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go make another batch before I finish this entire blog post with grease still on my fingers.