Grab your muffin tins for a great party appetizer food or a perfect freezer friendly meal! These Maple Bacon Wrapped Meatloaves are easy and delicious!
Growing up, I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaated meatloaf. It was chocked full of chunks of bread, onions, pepeprs and icky chunky stuff. However I loved the ‘red gravy’ that Mom made with it. So I’d pick all the chunky icky things out, mush up the meat, top it with mashed taters and then smother it in the red gravy.
As an adult I found that my taste buds changed and I longed for comfort foods sans the yucky chunky bits. Thankfully God invented the food processor and I had knife skills. Yes, I’m still that 7-year-old-girl-with-the-squinched-up-face-when-posed-with-icky-chunky-things-in-my-food. Well okay I’m not *that* bad but pretty darn close.
Well I decided to make a meatloaf the other day but since I am in BooFest mode (our annual Halloween party) my mind is thinking “foods to make for the party”. Now regular meatloaf wouldn’t work BUTTTTTTTTTTTT mini ones would!
As I got out my ground meat and stuff to put in it I found the container of maple bacon syrup I had made a few days prior for my cheddar ale pancakes. YESSSSSSSSSSSS… this MUST go in the meatloaf. So I made a few tweaks, remove the ‘red gravy’ and went straight out meat, maple and bacon. The outcome… oh dear LORD I’m friggen a genius!!! Just sayin all… this was off the hook amazing!
Now while I am not a big eater of bacon (trust me, I LOVE it and my thighs love it even more however I’m loving my smaller sized jeans more than that) I just had to try this. I mean I had to do it for you all.
So you’re welcome… *puts her hand across her forehead and gives the forlorn look* The things I do for you all… *wink*
LOOK at this…
No really.. LOOK AT THIS!!!
Not only are they fanfriggentastic tasting, they are just the cutest little things EVER!
You so need to make these if not for a party, then for yourself. Really.. go make these!
Um.. make a few extra for me too *grin*
Maple Bacon Wrapped Meatloaves
Grab your muffin tins for a great party appetizer food or a perfect freezer friendly meal! These Maple Bacon Wrapped Meatloaves are easy and delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon Montreal Steak Seasoning
- 1 pound ground beef or ground turkey
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4–1/2 cup farina or dry bread crumbs
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 12–14 slices of bacon, raw
- 5 slices crispy cooked chopped bacon
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a large bowl mix steak seasoning, ground beef, egg, milk, farina, Worcestershire, maple syrup and cooked bacon with your hands. Just combine it but try not to overwork it as it will get tough. If the mixture is too wet, add a bit more farina. If too dry, add another egg and 1/4 cup milk. You want the mixture to be pretty moist but not super wet.
- For each muffin tin, use ~1 cup of meat mixture and shape into a ball.
- Wrap each ball with 2 pieces of bacon having the ends of the bacon on the bottom of the ball.
- Place each bacon wrapped ball into a muffin pan cavity.
- Repeat until all the meat is gone.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the internal temp is 165.
- If you want crispier bacon top, broil on high for 2-4 minutes.
- Remove from the muffin tins and drizzle with warm maple syrup.
Notes
This is amazing with whipped sweet potatoes or candied yams.
Keywords: meatballs, party foods, muffin tin meatloaves
Just found your site. Wanted to make Hoagi rolls. Kept reading, and following, and reading and am afraid I am hooked. Because I live alone and usually cook for one I would love for you to tell how much or many a recipe makes. I would still make the recipe but would be better prepared on how to store and divide. Will be looking forward to mailed recipes. Barb
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Hi!
I’m actually going through that whole process now of adding quantity/servings. With having my website completely redone I have to start with the newest recipes and work my way backwards to update all of that data. If you’re not sure about the number of servings either leave a comment on that recipe or shoot me an email and I can tell you right away, k?
For this recipe it makes enough for 4 servings (about 2-3 meatballs per person). I’ll update it in the recipe.
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These are a gift from the GODS! You have been touched by an angel! You are truly a kitchen genius! These are a MUST at our station every week! We make at least 10 pounds of these at a time and keep them on hand for the guys and girls here.
One of the best foods I’ve ever had!
Thank you!
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Holy cow Nate – 10 pounds! Now that’s some serious meatballs! Trust me, if I could keep 10 pounds of these made on hand I would but then I’d never be able to move as I think I’d morph into one as I’d eat them all myself!
So loving you on the site!
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We made these yesterday for the game along with the potato topped ones. These are FANTASTIC!!! Absolutely LOVE these! Every raved about them and when asked where I got the recipe from, I pulled your website up and showed them. You now have 10 new followers!
LOVE LOVE LOVE your site!
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That’s awesome Jessica! Yeah I can’t wait to make these again! And thanks for helping the TKW Family grow!
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I was just thinking how cute these meatloaves are, then I read your comment about how cute they are. I would say the consensus is, that these meatloaves are cute!
Tee hee.. great minds think alike eh Kari? 🙂 I just positively love these! I’ll be posting a recipe soon for Tater Topped meatloaves too!
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