In honor of Valentine's day, I decided to try a pinterest idea that looked simply amazing...bacon roses. The original site is here, but it looked a little overly complicated. The original pin requires drilling holes in a mini muffin pan. Let's be honest...I'm not one for using power tools or ruining my kitchen items. So, I decided to try it a little differently. First, I preset the oven to 375 and prepped a cookie sheet with crinkled up tin foil so the bacon grease could soak into the creases. Next, I folded strips of tin foil over about 3 times and set them aside. Then, I rolled strips of bacon into a rose shape (1 bacon strip per rose) and wrapped the tin foil strips around them several times leaving the meatier part on the top. I arranged all the bacon roses on the cookie sheet and baked them for 50 minutes.
For the stems, I decided to avoid the plastic that was in the original post, and I bought green plant stakes from Michael's (I'm sure they're available at any craft store). They're basically green skewers made for floral arrangements. It gives a little more natural and simpler look to the finished product since they're wood rather than plastic and don't have any leaves or thorns. Once the bacon is cooked through, I cooled them, unwrapped them, and stuck them on the sticks. Voila! A unique Valentine's day treat.
