Oh, Waffle, What CAN'T You Do?
I love this on so many levels. One, it's food geekery at its finest, which I'm all about. Two, it's waffles, three, it's bacon... and so the list goes on.
It got me wanting to experiment in my own kitchen, with my own waffle iron which is decidedly inferior to the one shown, sadly. Who knew peanut butter cups wouldn't work? It sounds delicious in my head... even as I write this, I'm plotting a way to get chocolate and peanut butter into a waffle, successfully.
This all got me thinking about things. Important things. Waffles, bacon, what can go into waffles, what can be made IN a waffle iron, besides waffles, and any combination thereof. With a little help from my good friend Google, (Google doesn't know we're friends, Google doesn't know who I am, but I love it enough for the both of us), I've discovered a few nifty things.
Item 1: You can make waffle iron brownies. Yes, you read that right. Brownies and waffles combined, the drool factor is astronomical with this one.
Waffle Iron Brownies
Yield 10 brownies
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon water
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for decoration
Directions
1.Preheat waffle iron.
2.Melt butter in a sauce pan. Remove from heat and stir in cocoa. Mix in the sugar, eggs and water. Add the flour and salt, beating well. Stir in the nuts.
3.In each well of the waffle iron, add 1 well rounded spoonful. Cook brownie in waffle iron as you would cook waffles. Sprinkle confectioners' sugar over warm waffle brownies.
Nutritional Information:
Amount Per Serving Calories: 231 Total Fat: 10.7g Cholesterol: 67mg
Courtesy of Allrecipes.com: Original Recipe Here
Item 2: I learned what part of the pig bacon comes from, how it is removed from said pig, how it is cured, generally all the steps in between pig and plate. I'll spare the details, I took the bullet here. However, I did also find this mystical, helpful little picture:
If I squint so the words blur out, I see a happy rainbow pig. Hey, rainbows are happy, right? So I imagine this colourful little guy prancing around the barnyard making the other animals happy and surely not going to slaughter, I assume he also grants wishes and poops cupcakes.
And on that note,
Item 3: I don't think there's a thing in the world that hasn't been made to have bacon in it, be made with bacon, or flavoured like bacon. I'm serious. The following is a list that is not, I'm sure, comprehensive in the slightest...
- Bacon Gumballs. I'm not joking. I have no idea what sort of person it took to come up with this.
- Bacon Soap. There's no misreading this one. It's soap - that looks and smells like bacon. I'm not sure if it also tastes like bacon, but I'd question the mind of anyone who'd want to try and find out.
- Gummy Bacon. This one is a little less bizarre, it looks like bacon, but tastes like strawberry.
- Bacon Salt. The listing helpfully states: "Don’t you wish everything tasted like bacon? Well now it can!" I just can't add to that.
- Bacon Lipgloss. I wonder if they just shove bacon grease into a tube. Easy, portable, fits in your pocket... you never have to be without that wonderful briney bacon taste ever again.
- Bacon Flavoured Popcorn. Sounds like a good combo to me.
- Squeez Bacon. This is a squeeze bottle full of... I'm not sure what, but it apparently tastes like bacon. What you end up with, as far as I can tell, are bacon flavoured turds. A friend showed this to me once, and until I read about it for myself, I was completely sure I was being taken for a ride.
AND my personal favourite:
- Caffeinated Maple-Bacon Lollipops. It tastes like bacon. It's candy. It's got caffeine, and it's got a stick in it. Sounds like breakfast on the run.
When I say this is not a comprehensive list, I mean it. I didn't even take all of the ones I found on the page at ThinkGeek. And by the way, if you'd like more information on baconated and/or caffeinated products such as these, check it out:
So, in conclusion... narf.
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