Maple Bacon Cupcakes

Don’t go bacon my heart!

These sweet and salty cupcakes are sure to please any crowd! I whipped up a batch of these for Canada Day, since they included two Canadian classics (maple and bacon!) The moist maple cupcake, topped with vanilla icing with a drizzle of maple syrup and bits of crispy bacon will have you wanting more and more!

You eat bacon for breakfast, so these are basically a breakfast item right?

The bacon dessert trend hit the food scene a few years ago and continues to be added to a number of sweet treats, so I decided to take a run at it! Maple and bacon have always been a match made in heaven, so there were high hopes for these cupcakes!

Making these cupcakes was my very first encounter using bacon in dessert. I was excited to hear and see what everyone thought of them. The reviews were good and everyone loved them!

Ingredients:

Cupcakes:

• 1 box of white cake mix (I cheated because hey, these recipes are perfected so why mess with a good thing?)
• eggs
• vegetable oil- use half, half bacon grease
• bacon grease (grease from cooking bacon in a pan)
• 2 Tbsp maple syrup
• Optional: 1 tsp of maple extract

Frosting:

• 2 containers of white frosting (also cheated on making this from scratch)
• 2 Tbsp of maple syrup

Topping:

• maple syrup, to drizzle over cupcakes
• 6-8 crispy bacon strips cut into small pieces

• Transfer your maple frosting into a piping bag using the piping tip of choice.
• Crumble crispy bacon on top and drizzle with maple syrup!
• Add festive little touches like Canadian flags, etc.

VOILA!

I will definitely be making these again, they were super simple and stayed really moist from the bacon grease added to the mix!