To kick off Bacon Week, I thought it would be best to start at the beginning and by beginning I mean breakfast. When I think breakfast, I think bacon. I also think scrambled eggs and english muffins slathered in butter. Plain ol’ fried bacon would probably be a rather boring start to Bacon Week though (delicious, but nothin’ new or exciting), so I whipped out my trusty Taste of Home bacon book and I came across this amazing concoction.
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As soon as I read the words bacon butter, I knew I was in trouble. Those are my two favorite foods! Why had I never though to combine them? Because, let’s face it, this really isn’t much of a recipe. It’s more of an idea. A very good, very tasty idea.
Softened butter, fried and crumbled bacon, and the teensiest weensiest little bit of dijon mustard. This stuff will blow your mind.
Bacon Butter
Ingredients
- 8 slices bacon
- 1/2 cup salted butter room temperature
- 1/4 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper
Instructions
- Fry the bacon in a skillet over medium heat until crispy. Remove the bacon to a paper towel lined plate.
- Add the butter to a small mixing bowl along with 1 tablespoon of the grease from the bacon.
- Crumble bacon into very small, fine pieces and add to the butter along with the mustard and pepper. Stir well to combine. Alternately, add all of these ingredients to a food processor and process until the bacon is in small crumbs and the butter mixture is combined.
- Spoon mixture into a dish, cover, and refrigerate until ready to use.
Malen says
If it is still possible to improve this, I will mix the fat of the bcon with the butter and add a pinch of black cracked pepper.
This is going to appear soon in my husband’s breakfast dish.
Okay, I will also have some…
Mike says
WOW!!! The perfect topping for my Pillsbury cinnamon rolls!
grace says
has paula deen marketed this? if she hasn’t and her people see it, it’ll be on the shelves in no time. 🙂 best compound butter ever, karly–bravo!
Julie says
Bacon week? Bacon butter? You have been so bookmarked!
Michelle says
Pure genius.
my boyfriend cooks for me says
I don’t think there is any combination of words that is as beautiful as “bacon butter”.
Genius.
Amanda says
Oh….oh wow. Yum. Bacon butter here I come.
Terri A. says
This is so wrong in so many ways, but I’m willing to be wrong. How could I have not heard of this before?
Karen says
OH WOW!! I’m all over this one!!
Allison says
Sounds heavenly!
Jessica @ How Sweet says
This is a sin that I would commit over and over and over and over. . .
Holly says
OMG that sounds ridiculously good! And I am REALLY trying to be good. I need to hold off on this for two weeks. (I think I can, I think I can…)