23 Bacon Recipes

A white tray with slices of perfect baked bacon.

Baked Bacon1/23

A ridiculously easy way to cook bacon for a crowd. No fuss. No standing at the stovetop. No spatters.

Four baked eggs sprinkled with chopped bacon.

Baked Eggs2/23

And you thought you didn't have time for breakfast. We're changing that with this handy dandy technique.

A cheeseburger sitting on a countertop, with a sesame bun, melted cheese, a beef patty, lettuce, bacon, and pickled zucchini.

Bacon Manchego Cheese Burger3/23

We're bringing back fusion cuisine in style with this unabashedly American burger and its Spanish-inspired accoutrements.

Tray of roast chicken pieces with pancetta, olives, and garlic cloves

Roast Chicken with Pancetta and Olives4/23

"One of the best chicken recipes ever!" "Crisp-skinned." "Juicy." "Aromatic." "Easy." "Gorgeous." "Heavenly." That's what we're hearing from folks who've tried it.

Bite-size bacon and cheese scones with smoked bacon and melted Asiago on top on a parchment-lined baking sheet

Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones5/23

Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good biscuits we've had in recent memory. Maybe ever.

Four mugs filled with chili con carne with one spoon resting inside a mug and four others laying beside the mugs.

Chili con Carne6/23

"Outstanding!" "A sophisticated uptown chili." "The bomb." That's what we're hearing about this classic chili con carne recipe.

Four baked pumpkin donuts on a donut tray, two coated with dark chocolate frosting and two coated with maple-bacon glaze.

Baked Pumpkin Donuts7/23

Deeply satisfying, these baked pumpkin donuts are gluten-free, paleo-friendly, and doused with maple and bacon or dark chocolate.

Several strips of maple bacon on a sheet of parchment, with a pastry brush and drizzles of maple syrup beside the bacon.

Maple Bacon8/23

Forget the mixed nuts and nachos. This maple bacon is what we care to toss back while sipping a beer and

A jar of bacon jam with a spoon in it on a wooden board with a lid and breadsticks in the background.

Bacon Jam9/23

Maybe what the world needs is a single currency. Like jars of this sweet, rich, intense bacon jam that makes everything better.

A bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin with a few slices cut from the end and a knife resting beside.

Bacon Wrapped Pork Tenderloin10/23

Easy. Economical. On the table in 45 minutes. And essentially pork wrapped in more pork and roasted until crisp outside and juicily tender inside. Comfort food for when you need it.

A small pot with a small amount of spicy bourbon barbecue sauce left in it and a spoon resting inside.

Spicy Bourbon Barbecue Sauce11/23

The secret ingredient to this spicy sauce? Nope. Not bourbon. We said secret. It's smoked ketchup. (Yup. You heard correctly.) Bacon, too.

A bowl of creamy New England clam chowder with clams, potatoes, leeks, shallots, cream, and chives

New England Clam Chowder12/23

This New England clam chowder recipe, put simply, is a classic. No other way to say it, no other way to make it.

A whole peanut butter pie in a white pie dish, topped with whipped cream and peanuts.

Peanut Butter Pie13/23

We can't help falling in love with the sweet, smoky, salty, nutty flavors of Elvis’s favorite sandwich—peanut butter, bacon, and banana—in a gooey, messy pie.

A white bowl filled with pasta soup with potatoes and pancetta on a linen cloth with a spoon resting on the edge of the bowl.

Pasta Soup with Potatoes and Pancetta14/23

This good old-fashioned soup has a frugal heartiness once needed by day laborers. And a satiating subtleness now appreciated by foodies.

A cast-iron skillet with four cooked chicken apple sausages inside.

Chicken Apple Sausage15/23

Seriously, it's so easy to make your own sausage. Insanely easy. And holy heck, does it taste phenomenal. No meat grinder required.

Several bacon-wrapped chicken wings on a grill grate with flame below.

Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Wings16/23

Sorta makes you wonder how you got this far in life without thinking to try this, eh?

Tin cup lined with brown paper and filled with peanut brittle studded with bacon on blue wood

Bacon Peanut Brittle17/23

An unexpected yet inspired concoction of sweet, salt, and smoke that'll put your childhood recollections of brittle to shame.

Homemade maple-espresso bacon on a cutting board on a stone slab

Homemade Maple-Espresso Bacon18/23

A richly porky, nicely salted, slightly peppery, pleasantly sweet taste with a lingering maple syrup flavor. That's what you can expect from this crazy easy homemade bacon.