Spicy Brown Sugar Bacon will add a delicious sweet and spicy twist to your breakfast! This oven-baked bacon recipe is so easy and so tasty. The cayenne pepper and brown sugar create the perfect flavor, but you can leave that out if you want and just start baking bacon in the oven for the best bacon ever!
COOK TIME: 40 MIN
TOTAL TIME: 50 MIN
SERVINGS: 6
INGREDIENTS
- 1 lb. Bacon I prefer thin slices, but use your favorite.
- 3 tablespoons Dark Brown-Sugar
- ½ teaspoon Cayenne Pepper or more if you want spicier
- ½ teaspoon Black Pepper
INSTRUCTIONS
- Mix together the brown sugar, cayenne pepper, and black pepper, set aside.
- DO NOT PREHEAT THE OVEN
- Getting ready: Cover a rimmed cookie sheet with aluminum foil – cleaning up is much more fun this way. Spray a cooling rack with cooking spray – for the same reason as above and set the rack on the cookie sheet. Ok, now you are ready to place the bacon on the rack.
- Drape the bacon across the cooling rack with a little space between strips. If you need to cut some of the bacon in half to fill in the spaces, that is fine.
- Place the bacon on your oven’s middle rack and turn the oven to 375 degrees.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Take out the bacon, flip each slice over and sprinkle with the brown sugar mixture on each slice of bacon.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes more. Watch closely for the last 5 minutes – it can burn quickly.