Double Chocolate Coca Cola Cake! Yes please!!

Tried, tested and true! This Cocoa Cola cake is DELICIOUSLY chocolatey and moist. I can't keep any around long enough to enjoy it the next day. Enjoy!

Dulce de leche... in a crock pot!

This nearly blew my socks off!

Forget standing over the stovetop boiling milk and sugar until its juuuuust the right temperature (or, if you are an ADD queen like me, burn it while inspecting something pretty and/or shiny at the opposite end of the kitchen).

Dulce de leche in a crock pot recipe

Ingredients

One or two unopened cans of sweetened condensed milk. 

Instructions

Remove the labels from the cans and put them in your crock pot.

Cook on low for 8 hours.

Seriously... That's it!  

The stovetop milk plus sugar dulce de leche tasted slightly better than the crock pot version, but the ease of the crock pot far outweighs any taste differences.

Ingredients

• One or two unopened cans of sweetened condensed milk.

Instructions

1. Remove the labels from the cans and put them in your crock pot.
2. Completely submerge the can(s) in water.
3. Set to low and wait eight hours.
4. Wait for the cans to come to room temperature and open the cans

Read more at http://www.cupcakeproject.com/2010/03/dulce-de-leche-in-a-crock-pot.html#XeSviRRqvt1z3QXu.99

Smackin-Cracklin Bacon

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simply add a little Rum to your morning! ;)

 

Smackin-Cracklin Bacon Recipe

Recipe by Stephen Dennison

 

Ingredients:  
2 oz. Butter 
2 oz. Brugal Añejo Rum (or other Dark Rum) 
3 Tbsp. Sugar 
10 Pieces Thick-Cut Bacon (we used hickory-smoked) 
Food Release Spray 
Black Pepper  

What you will need:
- Sheet Pan
- Large Plate
- Paper Towels
- Sautee Pan 
- Whisk 

Instructions:  Lay out bacon on sheet pan. Bake in 300d oven. Cook until still soft, almost crispy, approx 10-14 minutes. Remove from oven. Place on paper towel-lined plate. Pat dry.  In sauté pan, add butter and rum. Melt on medium heat until incorporated, whisking occasionally.  Add sugar and whisk until fully incorporated. Reduce heat to low. Add bacon, taking care not to over-crowd the pan. Allow bacon to sit in the glaze for 2 minutes. Remove and place upon the sheet pan, wiped free of excess bacon fat and sprayed with food release. Do not allow the bacon slices to touch each other!  Pepper, to taste.  Allow to set for at least 3 minutes prior to serving.

Article written and recipe created by BourbonBlog.com’s Beverage Consultant Chef/Mixologist Stephen Dennison.