Pumpkin Spice Bacon

Pumpkin Spice BaconIt seems like every fall everything suddenly becomes pumpkin spice flavored. Starbucks starts selling their wildly popular Pumpkin Spice Latte, bakeries sell pumpkin spice muffins and Planters even just sent me some pumpkin spice flavored almonds in the mail. You know what I never see in fall though? Pumpkin spice bacon! Obviously this problem needed to be remedied, so armed with a pumpkin spice recipe I found online plus a couple additions I made to help turn it into more of a glaze that could be brushed onto some strips of bacon I set out to make my own!

 

 

For the pumpkin spice glaze I combined the following ingredients:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

After mixing everything up I covered a baking sheet with a piece of aluminum foil, laid out a half pound of bacon strips and then covered each one of them in my pumpkin spice glaze using a pastry brush. I then put my bacon in the oven at 400° for seven minutes before taking it out, flipping it and brushing the other side in pumpkin spice glaze as well. After that I put it back in the oven for an additional seven minutes. Based on the way my kitchen smelled while I was cooking the bacon I could tell how delicious it was going to taste even before I pulled it out of the oven. It was like some form of sick torture or something, but at the same time I loved every second of it! Ok… this is getting weird….

Anyway, the bacon turned out almost like a candied bacon, but trust me, it tasted WAY better than regular ol’ candied bacon. My problem with candied bacon is that most of the time it just turns out chewy. My pumpkin spice bacon on the other hand was a little bit chewy from the sugar and spices, yet still managed to maintain that crisp bacon crunch that I love. All in all I’d say that my pumpkin spice bacon was quite a hit!

12 Comments on Pumpkin Spice Bacon

  1. AJ
    November 3, 2011 at 10:01 am (12 years ago)

    this is just weird. I think i wanna try it, save me a piece?

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  2. Christina
    November 3, 2011 at 10:56 am (12 years ago)

    Hmm, i think i know what my contribution to thanksgiving dinner will be!

    Also, crumble some atop some mashed sweet potatoes, and I think i’d be in heaven.

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    • Nick
      November 3, 2011 at 11:03 am (12 years ago)

      Oh man, this would be great over sweet potatoes! Good idea!

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  3. Erika
    November 3, 2011 at 11:52 am (12 years ago)

    Excellent! Nom Nom Nom.

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  4. Courtney
    November 3, 2011 at 4:30 pm (12 years ago)

    Holy crap, that does sound good! My friend Penney makes a cornbread with bacon baked into the top every thanksgiving. Your pumpkin spiced bacon would up the ante on that dish for sure!

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  5. Lunchbox
    November 8, 2011 at 2:45 pm (12 years ago)

    Brilliant.

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  6. Blaze
    November 2, 2012 at 2:53 pm (11 years ago)

    Where’s the pumpkin in the recipe? I see spice, but no pumpkin at all.

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    • Jose Pablo
      September 10, 2014 at 10:17 pm (10 years ago)

      It said pumpkin spice, not pumpkin. It’s two different things.

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  7. Rena
    October 22, 2013 at 3:30 pm (10 years ago)

    I made this and my friends were addicted like it was crack!
    I topped my pumpkin spiced cupcakes (iced with cream cheese frosting) with a big piece of this bacon… it was a hit

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  8. Bettina Nutting
    November 7, 2014 at 7:09 pm (9 years ago)

    I think I might try adding a couple tablespoons of canned pumpkin as well. Don’t know if it would work but it sounds good to me

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  9. Trip
    September 4, 2015 at 6:27 pm (9 years ago)

    there is nothing “dude” about Pumpkin Spice.

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