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Bacon cake is a dish made with bacon, either savory or sweet, and generally baked in an oven, although it's sometimes cooked in a skillet on a range top.
A sweet bacon cake typically has bacon as a flavor accent or topping. Bacon pairs well with chocolate, and recipes for chocolate bacon cake are numerous. A related item is the bacon cupcake.
Bacon cake as a
Bacon Breakfast Cake
Savory bacon cake
A savory bacon cake is like apotato cake
Potato cake is a name given to various shaped potato dishes around the world, including a patty of hashed potatoes, a fried patty of mashed potato, a fried and battered slice of potato, or a flatbread made with mashed potato and flour. In some sta ...
, and can be made with potatoes or other root vegetables such as parsnip
The parsnip ('' Pastinaca sativa'') is a root vegetable closely related to carrot and parsley, all belonging to the flowering plant family Apiaceae. It is a biennial plant usually grown as an annual. Its long taproot has cream-colored skin an ...
s. An 1830 cookbook offers a simple recipe consisting of cooked bacon, flour, salt, and water.
Estonian ''pekikook'' is a bacon cake not unlike a quiche, made with eggs and a small amount of flour.
Sweet bacon cake
A sweet bacon cake typically has bacon as a flavor accent or topping. Bacon pairs well with chocolate, and recipes for chocolate bacon cake are numerous. A related item is the bacon cupcake.
Bacon cake as a guilty pleasure
A guilty pleasure is something, such as a film, a television program, or a piece of music, that one enjoys despite understanding that it is not generally held in high regard, or is seen as unusual or weird. For example, a person may secretly like ...
is found among various American authors including Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964) is an American author, media pundit, journalist, and LGBT community activist. He writes ''Savage Love'', an internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column. In 2010, Savage and his husba ...
and Garrison Keillor.
See also
*List of bacon dishes
The following is a list of bacon dishes. The word ''bacon'' is derived from the Old French word ''bacon'', and cognate with the Old High German ''bacho'', meaning "buttock", "ham", or "side of bacon". Bacon is made from the sides, belly, or back o ...
* Pizza cake
* Dutch-Indonesian spekkoek
Spekkoek (kue lapis legit or spekuk in Indonesian) is a type of Indonesian layer cake. It was developed during colonial times in the Dutch East Indies. The firm-textured cake is an Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) version of the European multi-laye ...
– the name translates as ''bacon cake'', but it contains no bacon. The name refers to its striped appearance.
References
Further reading
*External links
Bacon Breakfast Cake
Allrecipes.com
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