1 lb High-quality bacon strips
1 lg Pack grissini-style bread
-sticks
1 Box dark brown sugar
Cut bacon strips in half and lay them out on a cutting board. Break
the bread sticks into 4-inch lengths. Sprinkle the bacon with brown
sugar so that the bacon is completely coated. Press the sugar onto
the bacon with your fingers. Continue to sprinkle sugar and press it
on until no more sugar will adhere.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Set a rack over a foil-lined baking
sheet. Roll the bacon strips, sugar side in, around the bread sticks
in a spiral fashion. Be sure to begin as close to the bread stick
edge as possible and roll very tightly. Place seam side down on the
rack. Bake about 20 minutes, but watch carefully so that the sugar
doesn’t burn in the last minutes of cooking. Remove them from the
oven and let rest for an hour on the rack to become firm. (To prepare
ahead and freeze, bake the sticks half way, freeze on a baking sheet,
and store in the freezer in a plastic bag. To serve, bake the sticks
for the remaining 10 minutes.)
Yields
1 servings