Chewy, salty and sweet, Bacon-Wrapped Almond-Stuffed Dates are the perfect, 3-ingredient party appetizer!
Last Tuesday afternoon I found myself madly cramming raw almonds into a handful of pitted medjool dates before repeatedly shoveling them into my mouth. What else is new, right?
Oh wait, I forgot to mention it was 3pm and I was approximately 8 hours into a 3 day juice cleanse. I know.
I’d just gotten back from Napa where I’d been spoiled rotten with good food & wine for 3 days straight. A fellow blogger on the trip told me about this fabulous, one-week juice cleanse she goes on whenever she’s overindulged, and while I knew 5 days without solid food would never fly, surely I could make it a measly 3 days in order to cleanse my olive oil-drenched soul, right?
Wrong. So wrong! In fact it seemed I most definitely could not make it a measly 3 days, as evidenced by the juice cleanse killer carnage taking place just EIGHT HOURS in.
Just like Joey doesn’t share food – Kristin does not do hungry!
Besides a ravenous appetite and huge distaste for liquid celery, one thing I took away from my half-day cleanse was realizing how ridiculously delicious crunchy almonds stuffed inside chewy-sweet dates taste. And not just when you’ve been drinking beet juice all day either.
A few days later I began to wonder how this delectable combo would taste if it were wrapped in salty bacon then baked until warm & chewy. Bacon-Wrapped Almond-Stuffed Dates were immediately prepped, baked, and popped. These babies are mind melting!
Chewy, salty, sweet, incredibly rich and decadent, Bacon-Wrapped Almond-Stuffed Dates are perfect for a party, as an appetizer, or when you’re simply starving after trying to convince yourself that you can live on juice for more than a day. You will LOVE them!
Ingredients
- 20 pitted medjool dates
- 40 raw almonds
- 10 slices center-cut bacon, each sliced cut in half
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with foil then place a cooling rack on top and spray with nonstick spray.
- Push 1 almond into each opening of each date. Wrap with half a slice of bacon then place seam side down on the cooling wrack. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until bacon is crispy.
Nutrition
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What cleanse were you doing?
I used the combos from this cleanse: http://www.pressedjuicery.com/products-cleanses
I could make it about 20 minutes into a juice cleanse before giving up…so you did better than me! :-)
feta cheese in these is even more fabulous! yum!
My husband had these at a local restaurant and loved them!
Those are really good stuffed with blue cheese too.
Share the juice recipes you made :)
I realized the foolishness of a grapefruit diet once, when I felt like I was bonking during my lap swim :) Gotta keep fuel in the tank to keep running you know! Those yummy dates with almonds look like a Premium fuel. And the bacon, well that makes it a Super Premium.
I do the exact same thing with almonds and dried apricots….I’ll have to give it a try with the bacon. Yum!
I stuff a whole water chestnut in the date and wrap in Trader Joe’s uncured turkey bacon.
I’m a big date fan, i stuff them with gorganzola cheese and wrap them with bacon or Italian bacon, then drizzle with reduced balsamic vinegar. Delish
I love these with cheese (ya know, just to really ruin the juice cleanse!). I had them at a tapas restaurant and had to try them at home. The restaurant used Valdeon cheese but any blue cheese would work. I made them for my hubby’s bday a few years ago and he absolutely loved them!
These look great- what a fun app they’d make!
I’ve been LOVING carrot juice with ginger, myself! I just do it in a regular blender, and it saves all the fiber, too!
Gosh–I applaud you for trying! I just watched a documentary on juicing and fasting and it inspired me to come in the kitchen and eat wasabi peas. haha–is that normal?
Totally! ;)