Bakin’ With Bacon for Thanksgiving and King Teddy

Hello Bacon Fans!

Ready for another recipe with bacon that you can introduce to your Thanksgiving table????    Thanksgiving isn’t that far away and this year being different and probably downsized for most of us as far as “other than immediate family” thanks to the virus – I want to try and give you some new things to try OR some thing that are simply too yummy not to add to your “usual” !!

Not everyone likes pumpkin (what??? I thought everyone did!!!!) – but it’s not REQUIRED that you have a pumpkin pie for dessert at Thanksgiving.   SO, how about apple?   How about apple with bacon?   How about apple with bacon and a DAB of “spirits”?    Of course spirits are optional but it’s just a bit of extra kick and flavor after all.    You won’t be weaving down the hallway to the living room after dinner – I promise.

Bacon Apple Bourbon Pie

 

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon 

3/4 cup flour, divided 

6 Tbsp. cold butter, divided 

5 slices cooked Bacon, crumbled 

1 ready-to-use refrigerated pie crust (1/2 of 14.1-oz. pkg.) 

6 cups sliced peeled Golden Delicious apples (about 6 apples) 

3/4 cup granulated sugar 

2 Tbsp. bourbon 

1 tsp. vanilla

 

DIRECTIONS

 

Heat oven to 400ºF.

 

Mix brown sugar, cinnamon and 1/2 cup flour in medium bowl. Cut in 1/4 cup (4 Tbsp.) butter with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in bacon.

 

Place crust in 9-inch pie plate as directed on package for one-crust filled pie. Place apples in large bowl. Add granulated sugar, remaining flour, bourbon and vanilla; mix lightly Spoon into crust. Cut remaining butter into small pieces; place evenly over apples. Cover with crumb topping. Place on baking sheet.

 

Bake 30 min. Reduce oven temperature to 350ºF; bake 30 min. or until apples are tender. Cool.

 

Garfield knows what he’s talkin’ about!

This is one delicious pie – it wouldn’t be King-approved if it was anything other than that! 

 King Teddy