comment icon 361 more comments Years ago I decided to start a dinner club. One of my friends brought these bacon-wrapped dates as an appetizer during our very first DCM –> dinner club meeting –> because sometimes life is hard and I can’t be more creative than that with a dinner club name. Come on, you guys, just GIVE ME A BREAK. We all bellied up to the peninsula in our old kitchen and she unwrapped the foil from the Bacon-Wrapped Date plate and BAM. They disappeared. So awesome, so alarming, and so right. The soft, melty goat cheese inside the warm, plumped up date (how much do you like it when I say plumped up date? mixed feelings here) wrapped in the little bite-sized pieces of bacon was the absolute perfect three-way combo for our food-cray group of girls. Obsessed doesn’t even touch it. So my solution: stick a toothpick in each one and then use the toothpick to turn the Bacon Wrapped Dates every so often so that they get cooked on every side. Here are some options and variations to try:
It’s a Salty/Sweet Food Love Affair
Salty from the bacon, deliciously sweet from the dates, and creamy and tangy from the goat cheese. The combo of all three flavors: MIND-BLOWING. Since learning to make these, they have been made approximately one bajillion and one times – for dinner club, for date night, for holiday parties, for sitting on the couch on a Friday night. You can sit and chat while it all just crisps right up in the oven. They’re so ridiculously easy while also being the most fancy-looking snack. Just what we like to see in the hustle and bustle of holidays and also LIFE. Your salty-sweet, melty-cheese loving mouth is going to love them like whoa.
More Appetizers To Feed a Crowd
Elote Queso (Creamy melty queso, charred roasted corn, fresh jalapeño and garlic. YUM.) Homemade Cheesy Chili Dip (Made-from-scratch super quick deliciously Tex-Mex flavored chili) General Tso’s Cauliflower (Golden brown crispy fried cauliflower tossed in a savory-sweet sauce) Caramelized Onion Dip (This caramelized onion dip is a total crowd pleaser)
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