How good do these brown sugar bacon twists look!? These combine the salty, savory flavor of bacon, and some sweet brown sugar glazing. Bacon drenched in maple syrup is really good, but this is better: brown sugar glazed bacon or candied bacon! Whatever you want to call it. These oven baked brown sugar bacon twists are sweet and sugary, yet smokey and savory. This is the perfect addition to your morning breakfast and is quite easy to make, just twist, sprinkle and bake! This would be great if you are on Keto, Weight Watchers, or nothing at all.
You know what they say.. breakfast is an important meal. The most important meal of the day therefore we are going to make it a good one. Quick breakfasts are a favorite for me, who wants to cook forever when they are rushing out the door and already late for work. This could also work as a sweet and salty dessert recipe.
How to Lower the Points / Calories
Use a different type of bacon! I haven't tried it but you can certainly try turkey bacon.
What You Need To Make Brown Sugar Bacon Twists
Ingredients:
- Bacon - Use your favorite bacon - thick cut bacon, turkey bacon, but I use regular bacon
- Brown Sugar Replacement but you can use regular
Yes, that is it. How easy. I use brown sugar replacement, but you can use regular if you wish. I use regular bacon but you can also sub turkey. You can add some salt or salt and pepper but I do not think that is necessary. Add some cinnamon for some cinnamon sugar bacon.
How To Make Brown Sugar Bacon Twists
How do we make these oven baked brown sugar bacon twists? Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. Grease a baking tray with cooking spray. Grab each end of a piece of bacon with each hand and twist until the bacon is completely twisted. Arrange the bacon on the baking tray and repeat for each piece of bacon that you want to make.
Sprinkle each piece of bacon with about 1 teaspoon of brown sugar. You can adjust this depending on how sweet you want them. Then just bake for 30 minutes.
Transfer the bacon to a paper towel or wire rack / cooling rack if you want to drain some of the grease.
Cooking On The Stove:
I also make this on the stove, you cannot twist them, they fall apart but you can still do the brown sugar part. Just preheat a pan and grease with cooking spray. Add the piece of bacon and sprinkle with the brown sugar. Let the sugar melt and cook the bacon a little. Flip every few minutes until fully cooked. It takes less than 20. minutes on the stove, probably more like 5 minutes!
I have not tried this out in the air fryer, I prefer squishy bacon so the air fryer would be better if you like crunchy bacon.
Which Method?
The oven method takes longer but is easier. Just pop it in the oven and go. The stovetop method takes less time, is not as pretty and a lot more high maintenance (but hey, so am I). Also, with the stovetop, you cannot cook a huge batch.
Video Tutorial
Need to visualize? Click the link below to watch me make these.
What To Serve With Brown Sugar Bacon Twists:
These would be amazing with some scrambled eggs, get some protein in, some breakfast sandwiches, a hash brown, or some of my other ideas!
Here are a couple carb-y options to serve with the brown sugar bacon twists!
What To Do With Leftover Bacon:
Here are a couple recipes that use bacon, these are great to use the leftover bacon with, I mean if you can not eat the entire pack haha!
These cheddar bacon ranch meatballs would be perfect!
This is the only way I will eat Brussels sprouts - with my maple bacon Brussels sprouts
One of my favorite recipes is my bacon smash cheeseburgers, I could make these everyday!
I will link some more below the recipe.
Recipe!
Brown Sugar Bacon Twists
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 6 pieces bacon
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar replacement
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a baking tray with cooking spray.
- Grab each end of a piece of bacon with each hand and twist until the bacon is completely twisted. Place on the baking tray and repeat for each piece of bacon.Â
- Sprinkle each piece of bacon with about 1 teaspoon of brown sugar. You can adjust this depending on how sweet you want them.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
Nutrition
What To Serve With Brown Sugar Bacon Twists:
Here are a couple carb-y options to serve with the brown sugar bacon twists!
What To Do With Leftover Bacon:
Here are a couple recipes that use bacon, these are great to use the leftover bacon with, I mean if you can not eat the entire pack haha!
How many WW points is this now?! Click on the link below and it will take you to the recipe I made within your own WW app. Your specific points will be calculated, and you can track that.
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