I am always approached with all things bacon, and I received a call from a company that produces fresh chocolates with unique flavor combinations using high quality, all natural ingredients. I will be honest that didn’t get my attention until she said, “It is our goal to bring cutting edge flavors and technologies to the chocolate industry, and deliver them to you as soon as they’re made.” And I said, “Yeah so?” and she said, well we have several new limited edition products including bacon covered chocolate.” Now she had my attention and I immediately ordered a box!

This company is called Luca Chocolate which is based in North Carolina. In speaking with them I learned that their chef and owner studied nutrition in college and went to the French Culinary Institute to study Classic Pastry Arts. The idea of LUCA Chocolate began officially in December 2006. What started off as a simple idea in the home kitchen and a lot of experimentation with many pounds of sugar, pints of cream and tablespoons of butter created a now successful business!

At this point I am sure each of you want to know what does chocolate taste like when paired with bacon? It’s pretty darn good. It’s sweet, and salty, and a little smoky and really something you might just need to try.

They offer several options including: Bacon Caramels: 4 of our signature caramels, topped with a crisp piece of bacon and covered in your choice of milk or dark chocolate and a sprinkle of sea salt. The box includes 8 pieces of chocolate covered bacon, 4 bacon caramels, and 2 bourbon and black pepper truffles. There’s also a big box (that’s one whole pound) with double the amount of chocolatey-bacon goodness.

The owner of Luca Chocolate said that she would rather have one amazing piece of chocolate than a whole box full of something mediocre. With my candies, I hope I can re-create that for someone else. I’m trying to find that balance between unique flavor combinations and classic ones. I don’t want them to be overpoweringly rich, but I’d like to find that a person savors each piece, instead of eating them quickly.

Well Bacon Freaks, if you like bacon like I do, this is a must try treat! Let me know how you enjoyed the bacon chocolate.

Be sure to check em out at:
http://lucachocolate.com/

Signing Off and Pigging Out,

Rocco “Boss Hog” Loosbrock
www.baconfreak.com

There’s a new company on the scene and it’s bacon candies are causing folks from New York City to San Diego to salivate with delight. That company is The Sticky Pig.

The Sticky Pig is the brainchild of Tara Simon (AKA The Bacon Vixen), a graphic designer turned Pilates instructor turned confectioner of bacon candy. Her creations are simply outstanding – from the idea to the looks to the combination of flavors. Here are a just a few examples of the treats with which to tempt your tastebuds…

The Elvis – “Based on Elvis’ favorite sandwich filled with peanut butter, banana and bacon. Ours is filled with peanut butter, fresh bananas with a hint of lemon and honey and topped with peanut butter buttercream and crunchy organic banana chips.”

Raspberry Jelly Doughnut – Sweet bacon filled with fresh raspberries, dates and crunchy, raw almonds and dusted with snow white powdered sugar from the bacon fairy princess. Sticky and delicious!

S’mores - No camp fire necessary, just a burning desire for chocolate, graham crackers, marshmallows and our little twist – chocolate hazelnut butter. Graham cracker crusted candied bacon filled with chocolate and hazelnut butter and topped with even more chocolate, a tiny marshmallow and dusted with graham cracker crumbs. Our s’mores candied bacon is just so gosh-darn cute you’ll want to eat this one right up!

Plus, each month The Sticky Pig features a unique, limited time only flavor like May’s “Hot Mama!” or June’s “Vanilla Cognac & Cigar”. So get your ordering fingers ready and type your way over to www.TheStickyPig.com and buy yourself a box of porcine perfection.

This creation deserves to go directly into the OMG – I WANT IT category.

Bacon Moon Pies. Three words that should make your taste buds stand up and shout. Rob, a confectioner from Northern California has come up with what may be one of the greatest bacon desserts of all time.

Rob says in order to create these amazing treats he must “render the fat out of the bacon and use it in place of butter fat in the shortbread and in the caramel so the flavor is extra intense.” This isn’t any ordinary shortbread, this is traditional Scottish shortbread made with bacon fat, stone ground rice flour, and bacon cracklin. Between two pieces of the shortbread Rob places “a marshmallow made with Vermont maple syrup and Evan Williams Single Barrel Vintage Bourbon, surrounding a bacon fat and bacon cracklin caramel.”

And as if that’s not enough, “the whole thing is coated with a thick layer of my favorite blended chocolate, Michel Cluizel’s 72% dark.”

Wow. Heaven in the shape of a moon pie.

Want one? You can order bacon moon pies on Rob’s web site. Not only do you get the bacon moon pies when you order, you’ll also get the recipe so you can make your own. You can also follow Rob on Facebook and Twitter.

Denise S. from Wasabi Prime shared with us this curious little candified concoction called Bacon Peanut Brittle. Available from the quirkily logoed Sir Francis Bacon Shoppe, the candy appears to be something worth trying.

Denise reports that the Bacon Peanut Brittle is “pretty smoky and unique in flavor. Definitely to be enjoyed in small doses, as it gets overwhelming, but I think it would be quite marvelous crumbled up over vanilla ice cream.”

Bacon + Peanut Brittle + Vanilla Ice Cream? Sign us up!

Order yourself some Bacon Peanut Brittle and be sure to read more about “food, culture, and whatever else fits on the plate” over at Wasabi Prime.

Lolliphile packs a plethora of pucker into their wide variety of lollipops. They make absinthe, white russian, and wasabi-ginger to name a few. What we’re after though is bacon and they not only offer a bacon lollipop, they offer it with a kick of caffeine!

According to Lolliphile, “We invented the Maple Bacon Lollipop, and now we’ve improved it: we’ve made it the bacon-y equivalent of an energy drink, adding two cups worth of caffeine to the already time-tested wonder of organic, sustainably farmed bacon and delicious Vermont maple syrup.”

On a side note, if you have a craving for maple bacon lollipops and don’t need the caffeine fix, buy a pack of 5 for under $4 from our sponsor BaconFreak.com.

Chicago-area confectioner Ginna Haravon has created a sweet and salty bacon-infused dessert that we are definitely going to try. Bacon Bourbon Caramel Corn is a handmade treat that is now available to the public. Ginna creates each batch with care and precision using her original caramel recipe along with just the right selection of bacon and a dash of salt.

You can order Bacon Bourbon Caramel Corn on the Salted Caramel web site.

Have you tried the Bacon Bourbon Caramel Corn? Let us know what you think!

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Here’s another San Francisco-based bacon food. This time it’s in the form of a sugary, lickable sensation called the maple bacon lollypop. What this treat lacks in creative naming it more than makes up for in creative cooking – after all, if it’s okay to eat bacon with pancakes and syrup, then why not slather the bacon itself in syrup and jam a stick in it?

These lollies are available in packs of 4 for $10, 12 for $24 and 36 for $52 from Lollyphile. 

– Mr. B

Cali Lewis of Geek Brief did the amazing on her August 23rd show and made a variety of bacon treats with RealCookN.tv — including Chicken Fried Bacon!!!

Featured in this month’s AAA Westways magazine is Vosges Haut-Chocolat, a boutique chocolate lounge at the Forum Shops at Ceasers Palace in Las Vegas, NV. While we’ve reported on chocolate covered bacon before here at Bacon Today, we had to tell you about this delicious treat after AAA magazine called Mo’s Bacon Bar “a chocolate bar containing morsels of salty, crisp bacon,” and “…the pinniacle of culinary achievement.”

We traveled to Las Vegas this weekend and sampled this tastey treat and wholeheartedly agree.

Best.
Bacon.
Bar.
Ever.

How can you make the candy of meats even sweeter? Dip it in chocolate!

One of our loyal readers sent us this photo of chocolate covered bacon on display at her favorite candy shop. When I need my bacon chocolate fix, I order a box of dark chocolate covered bacon from BaconFreak.com.

–Mr. B.