This easy sticky sweet Praline Bacon is topped with brown sugar and pecans. It’s sure to be the star of your next breakfast, brunch, or buffet! It’s great as a side, appetizer, or snack!
I’m not always one for decadence when it comes to recipes. Y’all know I like it simple over here. But if I am going to be a little over the top with a recipe, I want it to be easy too. Enter my Praline Bacon. It is literally the stuff dreams are made of… if your dreams are made of bacony, sugary, caramel-y goodness. And let’s be honest… whose aren’t???
It’s the perfect treat to serve your guests, whether it be a holiday spread or just a special breakfast or brunch. And because it’s so easy, you’ll have more time to spend with family and friends!
What pan do you recommend for baking bacon?
I like using a foil-lined jellyroll pan. A jellyroll pan is simply a baking sheet with edges. You’re gonna want to use a pan with edges to keep the bacon grease from pouring all into your oven. You will be moving the pan a bit during the process, so those edges provide a little extra spill-proof insurance.
Don’t skip lining the pan either. Lining your pan with foil makes cleanup a breeze. And, make sure you use a wire rack that is oven-safe to place inside the pan.
Why You Want to Use Thick-Cut Bacon:
When it comes to praline bacon, thick-cut really is the way to go. A slice of bacon that is thick-cut truly holds up better during baking by staying meaty and chewy while developing those irresistibly crisp edges. It also gives you a sturdier base for that brown sugar and pecan mixture to bake on without burning or turning soggy.
A thinly cut bacon slice just doesn’t have the same staying power. It tends to crisp up too quickly and can’t handle the weight of the praline topping. So, for the best texture and flavor, reach for the thick stuff. Trust me, it makes all the difference.
Baking Time Tips:
First, your bacon should start to slightly crisp around the edges when you first cook the plain bacon for about 15 to 25 minutes. Once you do that first round of baking, you will add your brown sugar and chopped pecan mixture.
When you return your mixture-covered bacon to the oven, the exact baking time will vary based on the thickness of your bacon. The bacon I use is pretty thick, so it takes mine about 10 minutes or so until the bacon is crisp and the sugar has melted. It really depends on your thickness choice, so I always recommend you just keep an eye on it after about 5 minutes.
You want it to look similar to this bacony, sugary goodness. Doesn’t that look absolutely delicious?! Y’all enjoy!
Recipe Card
Praline Bacon
Ingredients
- 8 slices thick-cut bacon
- 1/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F and line a rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil. Place an oven-safe rack into the pan to keep the bacon out of the drippings.
- Place the bacon pieces on the rack and cook for about 15 to 25 minutes or just starting to crisp and brown around the edges.
- In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar and finely chopped pecans.
- Remove from the oven and generously sprinkle each piece of bacon with the brown sugar mixture. Return the bacon to the oven and cook until crisp and the sugar has melted. The exact time will vary based on the thickness of the bacon.
Nutrition
* If nutritional values are provided, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands used. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, I recommend grabbing your favorite brands and plugging those ingredients into an online nutritional calculator.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of NatureRaised Farm. The opinions and text are all mine.
Nancy Cooper
If you coat the pieces on both sides and then bake, how does the coating not fall off the underside? Would it work to coat the top, bake it, flip it, coat the other side, finish baking?
The recipe only calls for you to coat one side of the bacon. With that being, you could always make extra brown sugar pecan topping and try your method of baking and flipping.
Andrea
When making the Praline Bacon if made a head of time can it be stored in an air tight container on the counter?
Since it’s meat, it needs to be refrigerated. The problem with this is the humidity in the fridge is your enemy here and it will become sticky.
Debbie
Video says bake at 450. Recipes says to bake at 400?
Hmmm… I’m not sure why the difference. I honestly don’t remember saying 450! I’d stick with 400 like the recipe calls for. Sorry for the confusion!
Laura Fulenwider
So good that it’s dangerous 😅🤣😂
I agree! 🙂
Dawn
Can the bacon praline be made ahead and put in fridge then taken out the next day
I wouldn’t recommend it. Chances are the humidity in the fridge will cause the sugar coating to melt and run off.
Carol brodzik
Do I have to use uncredited bacon?
No, another type of bacon should work just fine.
Zelda Partridge
Your Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies!!
Carol Michael
My favorite is icebox cookies!!
J. Nolting
My favorite is black walnut rum balls.The bacon is awesome
Erin Saiani
This looks absolutely delicious!! My boys will go nuts over this!!
Erin Saiani
There favorite holiday treat would definitely be my homemade fudge!!
Hope they’ll enjoy!
Peggy
My favorite Christmas treats are Russian Teacakes
Sharon Fitzwater
Pistachio lush…
My mother makes this ever year for Christmas knowing I might be the only one who will eat it. Lol ( oooooh, I get to take some home with me!)
I know it might sound silly as an adult being able to make it myself, but it’s just not the same as Mom’s. I’m so grateful after all these years that she is able to still make it.
Susan Holloway
Chex mix
Tara McClenic
I love making crunchy little meringues! My favorite is mint chocolate chip meringue cookies!
Lanita Addison
My favorite Christmas food is hard to say… I love so much of the special seasonal food. Cookies, hot chocolate, candy, spiced tea, cakes, pies, spiced nuts and all. Savory or sweet, I love it all.
I think I love the memories of Christmas past most of all.
Sheryl dunn
I love Sams club and I love bacon. I want to try this. If I win I’m gonna buy all bacon and make these for Christmas. My favorite thing to make are chewy noels. A soft bar covered with powder sugar.
Deborah SILIGA
Praline cheesecake is to die for
Robert Hicks
Yummy year round, Makes any day a grrrrrrreat holiday!
Jodi Fortner
Favorite holiday snack: COOKIES! Any kind, traditional and new, particularly Italian biscotti and sugar cookies. As long as they are homemade, nothing premixed or prebaked, thank you very much!!
Deb
Cranberry salad…YUM! I gotta tell you; I love, Love, LOVE your blog! Marsha over at “The Better Baker” posted your Mac & Cheese recipe one day and I’ve been BITTEN (pun intended) ever since! Being a good ol’ southern gal myself I can relate. Keep the posts and W O N D E R F U L recipes coming, I adore reading your entries! Happy Holidays to you and your family!
Thanks, Deb! You’re so sweet to say that! Merry Christmas!
V. Sharp
A no bake cookie we call reindeer poop. I know not very appetizing, but my girls named it when they were young and it stuck. It has white chocolate, rice crispies, mini marshmallows. Not the whole recipe but you get the idea. They are addictive.
Nancy jo
I love no bake chocolate cookies. I also love bacon; I do a daily email for work and I am always emailing recipes regarding bacon.
Susan Christy
Oatmeal Fudge is my favorite.
Barbara Patrick Hall
fudge and coconut cake are my favorites
Angie
Cookies
Shell
Candied bacon! You know I will have to make this for my family.
Our treat is Eggnog Truffles and hot cocoa with a peppermint stick to stir. Only once a year at Christmas, so it is special and creates meaningful memories.
Kristi Holton
Sounds fabulous!
My favorite Christmas treat has to be Red Velvet cake balls and milk punch. Makes me think of my grandmothers.
Vicki Gossard
My Grandmothers chocolate fudge is a timeless tradition!
Betty Albert
These look awesome! Do I have to serve them right away? I would love to try these for my open house, but would they still taste good if room temp???
It’s best served slightly warm but will be fine once it’s cooled as well. It’s just not something you can make the day before.
Cayla Jordan
Southern sausage balls!
Deanna McK
My favorite has always been a good, old-fashioned, home made fruitcake!!
No store bought, ever! Thanks for your recipes.
K.W.
Sounds GREAT, favorite Christmas snack has to be sugar cookies with a Hershey Kiss baked in the middle of the cookie. Thank you
Charlotte Desvaux
Chocolate fudge made with Hershey’s cocoa. We only make it at Christmas.
Doris
Fresh orange cake Yummy
Margaret Malloy-Watson
Egg nog anything. Ice cream, drink, latte, yum!!
Margaret Malloy-Watson
Looks so yummy!! Definately a must try!
Jean
Martha Washington Candy was made every year when the kids were home. We would make big batches and then divide into several bowls. Most was the traditional with coconut and chopped pecans and dipped in chocolate, (It freezes so well.) For the other bowls we left out the coconut and pecans and one had mint flavoring; flattened with a glass and dipped in chocolate. One had marschino cherries drained very well; wrapped the dough around and dipped in chocolate. One had orange flavoring and zest and dipped in chocolate. Another had lemon flavor and zest and dipped in white chocolate with lemon flavoring. Rum flavoring for the adults and dipped in chocolate. And this year I have already made two fruitcake batches. One doubled and today’s was tripled using a Fresh Apple cake recipe and fruits and nuts of YUR choice. Mine – fruitcake mix candied fruit, candied cherries, regular and golden raisins both, dried apricots snipped up with scissors, dried pineapple, pecans, walnuts and the SECRET to a moist, not dry fruitcake is to add 1 banana mashed up with a fork to your batter. Merry Christmas to Everyone!
Lib M.
Yum! I love Martha Washington’s! I make a batch almost every year. I might have to try some of your variations this year because so many people are not coconut fans!
Patricia Taylor
Most favorite treat is a chocolate chip/cream cheese overnight baked french toast casserole and a hot cup of coffee with chocolate caramel creamer…but it might be different now with this praline bacon recipe lol
Rebecca
Hot cocoa, cookies, I love it all!
Kim Smith
Pecan Pie, or German Chocolate Cake! 🙂
Melinda S
Cookies are my favorite, but the candied bacon is my husbands. And adding pecans…. Yum
Deb S
Pralines……
Leslie
Thumbprint cookies. In fact, all the cookies. But I only have thumbprint at Christmas.
Wanda Huff
Snowball Cookies with finely chopped pecans, rolled in powdered sugar with a cup of coffee is my all-time favorite Christmas snack!!
Diana Young Hall
My sister’s homemade shortbread cookies! YUMM!!!
Brenda
Our favorite is a cookie called “Buffalo Chips” filled with chocolate, coconut, pecans, oh so good and we make them only at Christmas so they are extra special. My husband even gets in on the stirring. Nothing better than a warm cookie and a cold glass of milk. (and its kind of a big batch of cookies)
Diana
Homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve!
Jenell Bergman
My mom would make me Sot Suppe, a Norwegian sweet soup. I loved that.
Diane
Cinnamon rolls on christmas morning. We love them.
Cora
I just finished making the peanut clusters, tomorrow peanut brittle! The best! Thanks for the recipe!!
Phyllis Waldrep
My favorite treat for Christmas is my chocolate gravy with biscuits on Christmas morning.
Jacque Horner
This bacon is calling my name. I’ll just have to try it.
To me there’s nothing better than warm Toll House cookies and a huge glass of ice cold skim milk..gotta save some calories…for the bacon!
Kathy Webb
We love to decorate sugar cookies and eat them with hot chocolate and marshmallows.
laura t
pecan praline crunch
DotRot
We’ll definitely be making this for our New Year’s Eve buffet.
My favorite holiday treat are the special cookies that my sister-in-law makes. The family call them Fingers.
Renee C.
This sounds terrible…for my waistline! ? Thanks for sharing this recipe. I’m definitely going to have to try it. Yum!
My favorite Christmas food is peppermint bark popcorn. I make it every year and it’s always a hit!
Paula
Red Velvet Cake!
Kerry Moody
Anything with cream cheese in it, LOL!
Alberta Conner
Hot chocolate and snickerdoodles!
Elizabeth Eriks
Looks like something I would love to eat.
Nancy
My favorite Christmas cookies are Fruitcake Lizzie’s!