Last weekend, as part of our early Father’s Day barbecue, I made one of my husband’s favorite appetizers to share…Jalapeno Poppers. With a spicy kick, cheese and bacon, what more could you ask for in an appetizer? Although they do take some time to prepare, the reward is so worth the effort! I did not create this recipe, but use the recipe from the Pioneer Women’s cookbook, “The Pioneer Woman Cooks”, which is one of my favorite, all-time cookbooks. It`s filled with scrumptious recipes and incredible photographs that are enough to make anyone want to don a cowboy, run away to a ranch, and live there. Forever.
First off, if you have never worked with fresh jalapeno peppers before, be careful! The oils in the peppers and seeds are hot and if you happen to, say, cut 40 jalapeno poppers in half and clean out the seeds, and then thoughtlessly scratch your eye. You will DIE. Of extreme pain. Worse than childbirth. Seriously. Been there. Done that. I had to run my eye under cold water for about 35 minutes. So please wear gloves. Or at least don’t touch your eyes and wear glasses if you can. If you don’t wear gloves, your fingers will throb afterwards from the heat of the oils in the peppers. Again, I speak from experience. But I don’t let this scare me, I make them anyway. And my fingers throb if I can’t find my gloves. {But I am pretty sure that beer will dull the pain. Just sayin’.}
2. Arrange the peppers on 2 cookie sheets as you work.
3. With mixer, combine cream cheese, green onion and shredded cheddar cheese. Stuff peppers with cream cheese mixture using a spoon or flat knife.
4. Cut bacon strips in half. Wrap bacon slices around poppers and secure with toothpicks. Brush with favorite BBQ sauce. (You can make the poppers early in the day and cover with saran wrap or waxed paper until oven time.)
5. Cook in 300 degree oven for 1 hour or until bacon is sizzling. Check the poppers at 40 mintues to see how they are doing. Please don`t make the mistake of turning the oven up to 400 degrees. This will cause the cream cheese mixture to bubble up and out of the jalapeno peppers, and the result will be cheese all over the cookie sheet and empty peppers. (But no one in this house has done that. Ever)
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These look amazing Angie! Seriously delish!
These look insanely good! I am pinning this as we speak! They are invoking visions of Christmas parties and I can not wait to try them!
Wow! These look scrumptious. Hubby is into spicier foods so this would be perfect for him. I bet the creamy cheese is a good balance to the "kick" so I might even enjoy them! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Angie,
Our Jalapeno Bushes are just loaded with peppers, these will be great recipes to try. Thanks for sharing and have a good week.
Miz Helen
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Have you ever tried this without the bacon? My sister loves jalapeño poppers but she's a vegetarian!
Hi! We make something similar to this over the fire when we are camping. They always go really fast. Might have to try adding some of the items you mention:)
These look FABULOUS! I love love love jalapeño poppers:) We would love for you to share at our first Super Summer Saturday party here: http://www.thechirpingmoms.com/2013/06/super-summer-saturday-party.html!
Thanks!
Julie
Pinning this for my spicy friends.
Jalapeno poppers are the way to my heart, they are one of my FAVORITE snacks and these look so good! I'm a vegetarian though so I may have to use veggie bacon but my fiance will LOVE the real bacon. Pinned 🙂
~Katie
I saw this on a 4th of July roundup and just had to pin it. I hope you’ll share your best post of the week on my Friday Flash Blog Linky Party going on ALL weekend at The Jenny Evolution.
Jennifer
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OMG! These look so good! I'm going to make these. #Pinned!
It says a tub of cream cheese. So you used spreadable cream cheese instead of softened cream cheese?
These were amazing. I didn't have green onions but they were still great. I loved the bacon and bbq could've used less bacon and they would still be great. Everybody loved them. I liked them way better than the fried jalapenos. Thanks so such.
WARNING!!!!!
WEAR GLOVES WHILE CUTTING PEPPERS!!!! I am doing these for Fourth of July and prepping a day before, well it’s been THREE hours of my hands BURNING LIKE FIRE cause of the peppers!!! Wear gloves!!! It’s a bad pain, and I’m a guy! So imagine a girl? WEAR GLOVES!!!