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Have you ever found yourself thinking, "Man, this (insert dessert item here) is super delicious, but I bet it would be even more delicious if it was wrapped in bacon and Traegered!"? Well, I imaging it goes without saying that we most definitely have found ourselves thinking that exact thing. Lucky for us, we make the time to turn those flights of fancy into tasty reality. Show up to the office with a box of these bad boys on a Tuesday morning and you'll have a promotion by Wednesday. Probably.
Behold, the bacon wrapped treat-off.
A few tips to get you started for the love of all things bacon and sweet.
* Use thinly sliced bacon. Maple flavored if you can get your mitts on it. We found it added just a perfect bonus layer of sweetness.
**Preheat your grill for a full 10-15 minutes before putting the bacon wrapped treats on. You want the grill to be nice and hot to cook that bacon in a hurry without overcooking and drying out your treats.
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*** Pre-cook your bacon for 5-7 minutes, drain well on paper towels, and then let it cool enough to handle before wrapping it around your treats. You want the bacon cooked, but still pliable.
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**** Don't use colored toothpicks. Lesson learned from experience, here. They bleed weird colors into your food.
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***** Serve while still warm, if possible. Everything is better fresh off of the Traeger!
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DOUGHNUTS: We preferred the cake doughnut bars over all other varieties. They held up really well to the heat and were the easiest to wrap with bacon. The glazed was next on our list. It was warm and soft with the perfect bacon-y crunch on the outside. The maple and chocolate bars were the least successful. The frosting just melted and essentially disappeared off of the doughnut. Don't get me wrong, we still ate them. They just weren't the top of the bacon-wrapped doughnut totem poll. Doughnuts were done in about 5-7 minutes.
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CINNAMON ROLLS: We used prepared cimmanon roll dough. Simply unroll, lay on a strip of bacon, and roll back up. We secured the end with a toothpick just for safety's sake.
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Our picture is left unfrosted so you can get a better view of the bacon inside, but definitely top with a hearty dose of frosting while still warm. We found the cinnamon rolls took the longest to bake of all the treats (about 15 minutes).
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TWINKIES: Oh, yes. Yes, we did. And they were glorious, amazing, above all description. Warm and gooey inside, salty and bacon-laden outside. If these treats could scream, they would scream 'MERICA! They were perfectly done in 5-7 minutes.
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MARSHMALLOW CRISPY TREATS: I would call these a failure, but to be completely honest we still ate all of them. The marshmallow treats melted nigh unto oblivion. Luckily, we cooked everything on a Frogmat so we just scraped up the gooey mixture, let it cool a little and devored it. Unless you like a messy drip pan, I wouldn't recommend these.
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