Chocolate Bacon

The bacon trend may be waning, but that doesn’t inhibit Vosges Chocolate from charging over $8 for a 3 ounce bar of Chocolate-Bacon.

And really, how hard could it be to make?  I decided to find out and learned, not very difficult at all.

Homemade Bacon-Chocolate Bars
3 slices  (or more) bacon, preferably applewood smoked
6 ounces 62% chocolate

1. Cook bacon until crisp and then drain really, really well.  Coarsely chop.
2. While bacon is cooking, melt chocolate over a double boiler.  Stir with a rubber spatula.  When about 80% of the chocolate is melted, remove the chocolate from the heat and keep stirring until the remaining chocolate melts.

3. Fold the bacon into the chocolate and continue stirring for a minute or two more.  Pour the chocolate into molds and let set.