Sizzling Bacon and Cheese Pinwheels
These sizzling bacon pinwheels are a combination of everything delightful: bread, cheese and bacon. The perfect New Year’s appetizer!
If you’ve stuck around this here blog for long, you may remember the Sugar Rush of last year and the year before.
It just happens to be the time of year to be talking sweetsy treats, right? And I’ve loved doing just that over the last few years.
Well, this year, I’m changing things up a bit.
I figure that since there will be a plethora of mighty delicious sugary sweetness rolling around the blogosphere, I’ll spend the next two weeks sharing my favorite appetizer recipes that might fit in with holiday entertaining (or just personal indulging).
So consider this year to be the year Sugar Rush has been reinvented to fit into the more savory side of things.
Never fear, though! On each tasty, savory post, I’ll be highlighting one of my past Sugar Rush recipes (see the green box below for more evidence). You know, so you can get salty and sweet all in one place. Perfect!
So let’s start.
This appetizer may just be one of my favorite of the season. Seriously. A throwback…a little old school…these sizzling bacon pinwheels are a combination of everything delightful in my book: bread, cheese and bacon. Amen.
Slices of thick bread are rolled thin, spread with a fabulous, lightly spicy creamy cheese mixture and wrapped in bacon. The morsels are broiled to toasty perfection, leaving the flavorful cheesy filling melted and piping hot and the bread and bacon crisp and golden.
I dare you to eat just one!
Sizzling Bacon and Cheese Pinwheels
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 6 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, shredded (1 1/2 cups)
- 2 ounces thinly sliced deli salami or ham, chopped fine
- 3 green onions, finely minced
- 1 tablespoon hot sauce, like Tapatio
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 12 slices hearty white or wheat sandwich bread, crusts removed
- 12 ounces bacon, halved crosswise
Instructions
- Adjust an oven rack about 6 inches from the broiler heating element and heat the broiler. Set an oven-proof wire rack in a rimmed baking sheet. In a food processor (or with a hand mixer if you don’t have a food processor), mix the cream cheese and cheddar cheese until smooth and well combined. Transfer to a bowl and stir in salami or ham, green onions, hot sauce and mustard. Mix well.
- Working with one slice of bread at a time, roll the bread as thin as possible with a rolling pin (don’t forget to remove the crusts!). Evenly cover the bread with about 2 heaping tablespoons of the cheese mixture. Starting at the short edge, roll the bread into a tight cylinder. Cut each rolled bread log in half crosswise to form 2 smaller rolls and wrap each half in 1 piece of the bacon (that has also been cut in half crosswise), covering the bread completely. The bacon should stick to itself as it is rolled around and stay secure, but if not, feel free to secure with a toothpick. Repeat with the remaining bread, filling and bacon.
- Place the rolls to the wire rack on the baking sheet. Broil until the bacon is crisp, 10 to 12 minutes, flipping halfway through broiling. Let the pinwheels cool for 10 minutes. Serve warm.
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Recipe Source: adapted slightly from Cook’s Country Oct/Nov 2011
I love savory so much more that sweet. This “sugar rush” is right up my alley! : )
This definitely looks like something my husband would LOVE! Also, doesn’t seem to hard. Nice to have something not too stressful to make when things get crazy!
These look amazing! Can’t wait to try them. Your website is my favorite for recipes! Thanks for sharing your talent!!!
Yummy!! I am a huge fan of anything bacon and these sound scrumptious. They will most definitely be appearing on my holiday table!
I read your blog faithfully. I even read it this morning at 3:00 am (couldn’t sleep). Thank you so much for this delicious appetizer. It is delicious.
Yummy!!!! I can’t tell you how many recipes I have used off of your fabulous website! My favorites are truly endless (just ask the ladies in my bunko group)! This one looks so good…nice to have ideas for appetizers too since our family get togethers always produce the same six! 🙂
I’ve made these for years! Everyone loves them….
I love you blog. For New Years last year we just had appetizers…it was good but now I need to change it and am glad for some new ideas! I’m sure I will have to try some of your appetizers. These sound really good.
is it bad that these are maybe (but actually yes really) going to be tonight’s main course? DELISH.
I love, love, LOVE your blog and I LOVE bacon!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Yum! I think that I might just have to throw a party so we can serve these 😉
Wow, this is right up my alley…
Exactly what I need! We are having an appetizer supper on Christmas Eve…
Hooray for appetizers! Got a party this weekend where the appetizers are WAY bigger than the dinner! This is PERFECT!! and… in my husband’s world, everything would be wrapped in bacon.
I have to admit that as much as I love to try to be healthy, your sugar rushes have always caught me. I guess that’s what the holidays are for. And this just another great idea! I’ve never been good at coming up with appetizers so this is awesome. It makes me want to host a holiday party! (except for the part where I have no time or energy… I guess that’s where sugar rush comes in, ha ha!)
Looks great! Bacon is always delicious!
Can’t wait to try these! Love your blog. Thanks for all the great recipes!!
These look amazing!
I’m so looking forward to this year’s savory rush!
Anything with cream cheese melts my heart!! These look delish!
Yum. I need to make these.
Those look so yummy and will be perfect for our New Year’s Eve party! I LOVE that you are doing a savory Sugar Rush this year!!
New to your blog-had me at bacon and cheese-HELLO!!
While I love all the sugary treats this time of year, it’s nice to see something different for a change! I can’t wait to see the rest….
Yum! This looks like a perfect appetizer for the holidays!
Don’t you just love bacon……………..Thanks Mel, they would be great for a Packers game !!!
holy cow, what a recipe! my mom would love this!
I just realized the other day, since I have started following your blog last spring I think I have only used my cookbooks a handful of times.
Oh boy do I love sweets, but these are making my heart go pitty pat, pitty pat. Can’t wait to try them. You go, girl, with you savory Sugar Rush, and appreciate the link back to the sweets of the past. Thanks so much for sharing. I truly love your blog.
Looks yummy!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Oh. Wow. These are drool-worthy! And perfect for a Christmas get together I will be attending this weekend! Thanks Mel!
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Mel, when I was a kid our Christmas Eve dinner was always a variety of appetizers and crudites. And I have tried to carry on the tradition with my own family because I LOVE appetizers in both forn and fun! I am so excited you’re doing this one! And these pinwheels look delish!
Mmmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmmm…. I needed some new savory snacks to take to all the random get togethers we end up at over the holiday season. Keep ’em coming!
“…these sizzling bacon pinwheels are a combination of everything delightful in my book: bread, cheese and bacon. Amen.”
Priceless.
I can’t wait to try these!
Augh! I must eat these right now! Love the “Appetizer Rush” idea. I certainly have an “Appetizer Addiction.”
Wow…these look amazing!
Okay, so really, I’d just want to eat all the bacon! Actually, I love the idea of an appetizer sugar rush because I don’t have any good, different ones. You know, you can get sick of meatballs, little smokies, and deviled eggs. Then again, I’m a sucker for sweets and I’ll be making that popcorn soon.
How did you know that I needed an appetizer for a neighborhood party this weekend? These look sooooo good! Thanks for another great post (and scrumptious looking photos- I am always impressed)
Bacon and cheese? Umm…yes please! These look GOOD!
These sound just devine!! Love anything that has bacon in them! The last thing I made with bacon was candied chocolate covered bacon that was put into PB. cookies! I will have to add this to my appetizer list for christmas! Thank you!!
I love your food and it’s time I told you! I’ve made so many things from your site I think I could make my own cookbook of recipes I’ve printed out. I feel some sense of closeness to you because I have 4 wonderful boys, too. Thanks for all you share!
I’m in LOVE with salty! I’ll choose salty over sweet anyway!! Thanks for sharing! Sugar Rush Reinvented, here we come!!
yum, yum, yum!
Oh my gosh!!!!!!!! This was not the thing to read when deciding to skip lunch and only have a piece of toast for breakfast. These look amazing and would be perfect for New Years Eve. I love sweets as much as the next person but give me bacon and that cookie can surely wait till later. LOL YUM! Thank you very much.
Yum!! Excited for appetizer recipes. Always looking for good party food ideas and now we’ll have some great options from you!! Thanks for your awesome blog. Love it- this week alone making all 6 planned meals from your site along w 2 yummy baked goods!
DH will be excited for the new appetizer recipes. He’s a total appetizer person and I’m a dessert person. Now you’re taking care of both of us. Thanks for the great recipes!
I love the idea of two weeks worth of appetizers! I love your site, because I know that whatever I make from it will be delicious!
I love all of your recipes!! I’ve made soooo many of them! Thank you!
This is just what I needed! My family does a huge array of appetizers for Christmas Eve, and this year since we are on the other side of the country I will be hosting our own little Appetizer Christmas Eve, and I need recipes just like this to get that job done!!
Thank you!