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Simple And Easy Bacon Bread Recipe

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Everyone in my family (aside from my vegetarian) loves bacon so I work bacon into a lot of recipes. You might remember my BLT appetizer cups. With two pounds of bacon on hand from my recent review of ClubsGalore, I decided to bake a loaf of bacon bread.

two slices of bacon bread next to the rest of the loaf on a wooden board with title text reading Bacon Bread

Ingredients For Making Bacon Bread

The recipe is a simple one and only calls for a few ingredients. Pictured below are all of the ingredients.

If you don’t have liquid smoke, you can use a substitute for liquid smoke.

Bacon Bread Ingredients

Only A Few Steps To Make Bacon Bread

To make the bread, you just have to cook and crumble the bacon, combine the dry ingredients, combine the wet ingredients, and then mix everything together. It all gets poured in a loaf pan and baked for 45 minutes. See? Pretty easy.

Bacon Bread Loaf

This makes a nice treat for Dad on Father’s Day, either as part of his breakfast that day or as a gift from the kids. The recipe is easy enough for even the most novice of bakers to make.

📋 Recipe

Bacon Bread

Corinne Schmitt
Now this is a recipe you want to try.
4.91 from 11 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 12
Calories 324 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb bacon
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 T baking powder
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring
  • 1 1/2 cups milk

Instructions
 

  • In a large skillet, or on a griddle, cook bacon over medium heat until crisp. Transfer to paper towels to drain; reserve 1/3 cup bacon drippings.
  • Cool bacon to room temperature, crumble, and set aside.
  • Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, combine next 4 ingredients.
  • In a medium bowl, whisk together reserved bacon drippings and the next 3 ingredients.
  • Add wet mixture to dry ingredients. Stir until moistened.
  • Fold in bacon.
  • Pour batter into a greased 5 x 9-inch loaf pan.
  • Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
  • Cool in pan 10 minutes then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition

Calories: 324kcalCarbohydrates: 31gProtein: 10gFat: 17gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 69mgSodium: 669mgPotassium: 366mgFiber: 1gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 123IUCalcium: 134mgIron: 2mg
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Bacon Bread loaf, some of it sliced, on a wooden board

11 thoughts on “Simple And Easy Bacon Bread Recipe”

  1. This receipe is much like the bacon bread I buy at my local Farmer’s Market. Their bread includes cheese. I wonder how your receipe would turn out if I added a small amount of cheese.

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    • You’re welcome! It’s fun to come up with different combinations of food that you wouldn’t normally think of.

      Reply
  2. Everything taste better with bacon, eh?
    Thanks for stopping by the Say G’day Party and sharing! Pinned all your submissions and look forward to seeing you next Saturday!!

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  3. I’m sure the serve Bacon Bread in heaven! I can’t wait to make a couple of loaves for my family (and earn great-mama points!)

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  4. I have never heard of Bacon Bread before, but now that I have seen your recipe, I will have to give it a try! I can see this bread going with many meals that my family loves. I also think it is great that is have few ingredients, is easy to make and it less expensive than store purchased bread.

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