My newest friend on Facebook, Lewis Meme, whom I’ve posted about before, has a thing for sweet confections. He works in a bakery, don’t you know (his last job turned out to be kind of a temp gig). While browsing his page, as I do for every newly-acquired Facebook friend (how else to know which privacy setting they have decided you deserve?) I came across the picture above, of a bacon cinnamon roll, which he said tasted better than heaven: “just a little smoke and a whole lotta sweet.”
Immediately, I hit the Google. And found a recipe! Well, “recipe” might be a little strong:
While grocery shopping the other day I picked up a tube of ready-to-cook cinnamon rolls and thought hey, I wonder how these would taste with bacon. As I read the back of the package I was reminded that the rolls are actually un-rolled when you remove them.
I unrolled the first pastry and the length of the dough reminded me of something. Could it be? Yes indeed. Serendipity. The unrolled pastry was nearly identical in size to a strip of bacon. This was going to be interesting.
After assembling all the bacon cinnamon rolls I popped them in the pre-heated oven at 425 degrees for about 15 minutes. I then pulled the rolls out of the oven and drizzled the icing upon them as directed.
The recipe writer calls them a winner: “The entire house was filled with sugary, cinnamony, bacony aroma. The taste was both sweet and salty, a perfect combination for a morning pick-me-up meal. Highly recommended for any bacon lover!”
This I have got to try. Thanks Lewis! And thanks pseudonymous Internet recipe-writer “Mr.B“!
In other news, there is a website called Bacon Today, which promises “Daily updates on the world of sweet, sweet bacon.”
Grant Hamilton
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