Do you ever add bacon to your cup cakes?

[Angelica Gapit]

Wow! I never even thought of this as a possible combination, and I never knew it was so popular. I've never tried this in my life. A salty and sweet combination. Pastries and meat in one.

Definitely a must-try!

 

[andrew172]

I trie these for the first time the other day. I was so so incredibly skeptical about them, but it turns out they're pretty good!!! though in the ones I tried the bacon was in the dough and not the icing.

 

[OhioTom76]

I'm a little burned out on the bacon craze which has been going on for the past 5+ years now. I think it was mainly spurred by the groups of people adopting the "Paleo" diet - bacon has more or less become their comfort food to replace bread and starches. Everything is "bacon-wrapped-this" or "bacon-wrapped-that", and there's this sort of persona of some die-hard meat eating metro cave man hipster that's evolved from it. You know, the ones that have freakishly unkempt beards and $500 man purses, and listen to Mumford & Sons....

I like bacon along side some maple syrup drenched french toast or pancakes or waffles - but that's usually about as far as I go with combining bacon with sweet things.

 

[jackofroses]

Bacon and chocolate surprisingly complement each other quite well.

 

[RobynB]

Hmm, well I have not used bacon in anything else other than savory foods and on its own with eggs for breakfast. I have always wanted to make savory muffins with cheese and bacon, to me that just sounds delicious.

 

[khillis]

This is a common cupcake option where I am from. Bacon and maple syrup go together; and being from Canada we have access to copious amounts of maple syrup. Maple butter cream icing with bacon; delicious! If you are going to attempt bacon cupcakes, my advice would be not to overdue it. Make the bacon subtle; you still want your cupcake to be nice a sweet, not overly salty.

 

[jwalk]

Wow, I've never thought of adding bacon to cupcakes before! I'm quite tempted to try it now although I'm not sure how well it'd go down with the rest of the family.

 

[MStory]

I recently made chocolate cupcakes topped with maple icing and bacon bits. They were divine! I made them for a friend who is lactose intolerant, and loves bacon. The maple butter cream icing was made using coconut oil. Yum!

 

[Youtuber1320]

It sounds amazing! I will try it now! Anyone have a recipe that would go good with it?

 

[FamineProof]

I have difficulties eating bacon for breakfast, so bacon on cupcakes would just ruin the cupcake, for me. While I like foods with the salty/sweet combination, like Payday peanut bars, bacon is too fatty.

If given the choice, I'd prefer salted nuts sprinkled on top.

 

[RobynB]

I have yet to try putting bacon into my muffins but I have added bacon to my savory muffins and what a hit!
I have also yet to try this but it sounds just mouth watering : lining a muffin tin with bacon strips, adding I think one or two eggs and some tomato and it comes out like a yummy breakfast treat, or so I have been told lol

 

[NThomas]

When did bacon become a dessert topping? Why is eveyone going crazy over bacon like it is some new inevntion ? Can we put bacon back on the breakfast table and stop trying to make it something it is not.

 

[JessiFox]

I do, but in moderation. Better not to go totally overboard....but the salty and sweet combination can be wonderful when done properly. I think cookies and cupcakes are a good option for that kind of thing.

 

[Galadriel]

The truth: bacon does go well with everything, even cupcakes. For a bit of variety, I fry up a few slices and crumble them up as a topping over my cupcakes. The salty taste works well with the sweetness of icing. Also, it's easy to do.

Sweet heavens. I love bacon, but I have never heard of bacon working well in desserts. I am inspired, madam, and will be trying this out sometime in the near future.

 

[Jazma]

Wow the picture of the cupcake with the actual bacon looks great. Although I have never tried it before be I am definately gonna try it now. I will let you guys and gals know how it went.

 

[Nautilus]

I am amazed that this might taste good. I suppose the only way is to try but I did check the original post wasn't on April Fools day.

 

[loraanna]

I have been wanting to try this but can't bring myself to put meat on my cupcake. I have a weak stomach and don't think
it will work for me. Does anyone have a good recipe for this. Maybe with just a little bacon. What type of cupcake goes best with
that.

 

[Tina Nord]

Bacon is the best meat ever and quite literally goes good on anything. I have never tried bacon on a cupcake, but have had a bacon maple donut. It truely is sinful, but sooooo yummy. I have a recipe for an apple cupcake topped with maple buttercream frosting so I think i will add some bacon sprinkles to it next time I make it.

 

[forextraspecialstuff]

Yes, I have also added finely chopped bacon to chocolate chip cookie recipes. When it comes to cupcakes I usually crumble the bacon on top, but when I made a devils food cupcake with a dark chocolate fudge frosting I cut a bacon piece in half and dipped one end of each half into dark chocolate and used it as a decoration.

 

[Annabell]

I've had a few requests for these recently, so I'll have to get down to baking tomorrow and make some. I dunno if I like the idea myself, but hey, enough people have been asking me for them after they've read about them on the internet and such, so we'll see how things go