Dates Wrapped in Bacon

Name: Dates Wrapped in Bacon
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 10 Dried dates; 10 half-rashers Bacon (half slices); Blue cheese

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My husband was whining about how he ate this dish at a restaurant and how it tasted fabulous , so I wanted to try recreating it. He said that the dish was $7 with 4 dates each, but it was much more inexpensive when I made them myself. I love making cafe dishes at home.

Fold up the edges of the aluminum foil as if making a shallow box. This is because the bacon gives out a lot of excess oil.
I usually bake them for 15 minutes in a oven without any preheating. Take them out before you end up overcooking the bacon. You don't want it to harden.
Caution: These are high in calories . Recipe by Mooming65

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Ingredients

10Dried dates
10half-rashers Bacon (half slices)
Blue cheese

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Steps

1

Please use dried dates that you can get in the dried fruits section of your grocery store.
2

Make cuts in the middle and remove the seeds.
3

Chop up the blue cheese into adequate sizes to pack inside the dates.
4

The left ones in this photo are already packed with cheese. You don't need to close them up completely.
5

Wrap up each of the dates with half a slice of bacon. Secure each wrap with a toothpick.
6

This is how it appears from the side. Make sure to leave a decent gap in-between the dates so that the bacon will be cooked properly.
7

Place the secured dates on a double-layered aluminum foil. Bake for 15 minutes in a 180℃ oven.
8

The cheese inside the dates are melting, and they smell really good.
9

Remove the toothpicks and dish them up.