Last week we picked up a couple of Vosges bacon chocolate bars at Whole Foods. The consensus around the office was that they were OK, but they were milk chocolate and they didn't have enough bacon. I thought I could do better.

Ingredients:

Brown sugar
Bittersweet chocolate
Thick cut bacon

Preheat the oven to 350. Coat the bacon in brown sugar, place it in a baking dish, and bake until it's done. 20 minutes might be about right, but my oven is weird so I can't say for sure. Cool the bacon a bit, pat the grease off of it, and then refrigerate it for a while.

When the bacon is chilled, melt and temper some good bittersweet chocolate. When the chocolate is ready, remove the bacon from the refrigerator. Coat half of each bacon strip with chocolate-- you can dip it, but I found that using the back of a spoon worked better. Place the chocolate-covered bacon on wax paper, and refrigerate it. You should eat this within a couple of days.

Yes, it's absolutely sick and wrong. I've passed samples around the office today, and reactions were mixed. Some people loved it, and others were less enamored.