My Bacon & Cherry Bites are the perfect canape for almost any occasion. And I know they sound weird and I know that your guests will give you the side eye before trying them but trust me, you'll wish you made double because everyone loves them, even the strongest sceptics. Including me!
Preheat the oven to 180c or equivalent. Line a tin with greaseproof paper or foil.
Have a quick count of a 200g Glace Cherries. There should be roughly 30. You will need one third as many bacon rashers. So for 30 cherries, you will need 10 rashers. This will be roughly 250g Smoked Streaky Bacon.
Take a rasher of bacon onto a chopping board and flatten and stretch the rasher. Using the flat of your knife, start from the middle of the rasher and push down whilst dragging the knife to the end of the rasher. Repeat towards the other end. Your rasher should now be thinner than before and a little longer/wider.
Cut the rasher into 3 even-ish sized pieces.
Place 1 Glace Cherry at the end of the rasher piece.
Roll each cherry in the bacon.
Place in the lined tin ready for baking. I like to place them fat side up so it goes crispy.
Repeat until all of the bacon/cherries have been used up.
Pop in the oven and keep an eye on them. They’ll take about 25 to 30 minutes and I usually carefully turn them over after about 15 minutes.
Warning! The cherries will be hotter than a thousand suns at this point!
Leave to cool slightly then serve.
Notes
Warning! The cherries will be hotter than a thousand suns when they come out of the oven. And they will burn off the lining of your mouth, even if the bacon feels reasonable to the touch. JUST WAIT!