Bacon Freak is an online store you can go to for all your bacon loving needs. And they have the Bacon Brownie for you to order online! Think of it as a long distance pizza. No need to wish. Just “click, click” and you can have a bacon brownie right in your lustful hands.

If you’re the proactive type, you can always make your own. Here’s how! (Seriously, there are pictures.)

First you need bacon. Use as many strips as you would like. This recipe has 4 strips. You may as well cook all the bacon because even if you don’t use all the strips in your brownies, you’ll still want to snack on them while making this delicatessen.

Next, you need to get the brownie mix. Use your favorite. Be fancy and get the Turtle Brownie mix. This mix comes with a bag of caramel to pour on top of your mix. Delish!

Next up, eggs and vegetable oil.

Okay, time to get down to it.

1) Pre-heat your oven to 350°F.

2) Grease a 13”x9” baking pan. (8” and 9” square pans will also work just fine.)

3) Heat up a frying pan. Pre-cook some bacon for about 3 minutes per side. Not too much – you don’t want to totally fry it, you just want to get it a little past raw. Raw is bad for taste as well as for your intestinal tract. The bacon should just be starting to brown and might be a little crispy.

4) When the bacon is ready, set it aside on a plate lined with paper towels to help drain some of the grease.

5) Following the directions on the box, combine the brownie mix, vegetable oil, water and eggs.

6) When the batter is ready, pour slightly less than half of it into the pan.

7) Now add the bacon. You can go as big or as small as you would like. That’s the great thing about bacon – there’s no wrong amount unless you don’t have enough!

Now add the rest of the brownie batter on top of the bacon. Be sure to cover it all up.

9) A little tasty caramel to finish it off.

10) It’s ready for the oven, so take another look at the box and bake it for however long it says. Betty Crocker suggested 27 minutes, but these were done in just 22.

11) Let the brownies cool for a few minutes, then dig in! Yep, it’s good isn’t it?

Bacon Brownies are a definite must in the bacon and dessert world. You can’t call yourself a bacon lover until you’ve tasted these.

Life is good. Bacon is better.

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It seems like every prominent chef and posh restaurant is coming up with one deliciously decadent dessert after another made with humankind’s all-time favorite flavor, bacon.  Here is an amazingly outrageous dessert that combines one of Bacon Freaks most popular gourmet bacons with one of the worlds all time favorite dessert treats.

You absolutely have to check these out for yourself and be sure to use the correct bacon, as the flavor is definitely not the same without the gourmet sweet, salted sizzle with the perfect blend of cinnamon and apple. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 lb. – Bubba’s Butcher Block: Apple Cinnamon Bacon.

1 Box – premixed Brownie Mix. (Premium Quality Gourmet Mixes definitely blow the cheap, mass produced or generic brands completely out of the barn-yard.)

2 – 4 Large AAA Eggs (Depending on what the brownie mix that you choose calls for / We Prefer Brown Eggs)

1-2 splashes of  Olive Oil

Directions:

Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees

Lay your bacon out in a large baking pan blanketed with a layer of aluminum foil.

Place the bacon in the oven for approximately 3 minutes.

You are NOT seeking to fully cook the bacon to completion at this point, simply to partially cook it to the point where it is lightly browned and slightly crispy.

Remove the bacon from the oven and allow it to cool on a plate lined with paper towels in order to drain off any excess bacon grease.

Pour off the bacon grease into a sink and directly down the drain with very HOT water running to avoid a drain clog when the grease cools and hardens.

Rinse the pan off with very hot water and dry with paper towels.

Prepare the Brownie mix by following the instructions on the box, combining the mix with the proper amount of eggs, olive oil and water as called for in the mixes instructions.

Lightly coat the pan with a generous amount of olive oil.

After the brownie batter is mixed, pour half of it into the pan.

Add as much of the bacon to the batter as meets your fancy.

Place the remainder of the bacon is an air tight container and save for a salad, BLT or any other meal that includes bacon (Don’t they ALL?)

Pour the rest of the brownie batter on top of the bacon, being certain to cover it all.

Bake the Brownie Bacon mix in the oven for as long as that particular brand of Brownie mix instructs, approximately 22 to 25 minutes, depending on how soft or hard you like your brownies.

Allow the brownies to cool and harden for 10 minutes.  Enjoy

Enter our friend Alexsis, who decided to get crazy in her kitchen a few days ago. She brought a few plates of goodies by the house for us to try and wouldn’t you know – there was a plate of no-pudge brownies in the mix.

It turns out that the No-Pudge brownies are really very good. I almost couldn’t tell the difference between them and the plate of regular brownies that she also made. Next time I’m making bacon brownies, I’ll probably give the low-fat No-Pudge type a shot.

– Mike