How to Make Bacon Macarons with Bacon Port Wine Filling

Have you heard of The TakeDown? Yeap, it’s one of America’s most important food competition. Recently The TakeDown was in San Francisco and guess what’s the theme? BACON!!! You are given 15 lbs of bacon (sponsored by Hormel) to make whatever you want. How can we pass up such an opportunity to flaunt our BACON LOVE? We (Aihui, Love With Food founder & SueZann, right photo) competed with 14 other chefs to vie for the Bacon Gold Medal. Our Bacon Macarons charmed the judges’ palate and won 2nd place! Like other winners, we were so happy and cried bacon tears! Here’s how to make our award-winning Bacon Macarons with Bacon-Infused Port Wine filling. Click here to get FULL RECIPE!

Step 1: Get The Ingredients
You’ll need almond meal, powdered sugar, eggs, salt, granulated sugar, butter, cream cheese, tawny port wine and of course lots of bacon. (picture below is for a serving size of 200, you don’t need that much ingredients)

Step 2: Bake Bacon and Grind Almond + Sugar
- Bake bacon in oven at 400F for 20 minutes till crispy. Let cool, then grind in food processor to make bacon bits.
- Grind almonds till very fine and then mix with powdered sugar.
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Step 3: Beat Egg Whites
- Beat egg whites with granulated sugar and salt till it gets very very stiff
- Gently, fold in ground almonds and powdered sugar. Do not over mix. The mixture should look thick, like magma consistency, it shouldn’t be runny.
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Step 4: Pipe Macaron Batter
- Pipe the batter on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Then sprinkle bacon bits on top of each macaron.
- Let it sit for at least 30 minutes before baking. A thin layer of ‘skin’ should form and batter should no longer stick to your finger when touched.
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Step 5: Make Bacon Port Wine Syrup
- In a non-stick pot, fry some bacon. After about 5 minutes, remove the fat in the pot.
- Add 1 cup of port wine to de-glaze the pot. Then add another cup. Let it simmer till the liquid becomes thick.
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Thanks to The TakeDown and Hormel Bacon. It was a Bacontastic blast! To find out about the next Bacon Takedown in your city, follow Matt Timms, the man behind The TakeDown and The Bacon Party on twitter!

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