A good day for bacon and syrup

Today is a good day for sweet bacon-based products that put my fomer attempt at a bacon & maple syrup cheesecake to shame.

First, Hummingbird Bakery launches it's American Brunch Cupcake of "'Maple syrup-soaked sponge studded with bacon pieces, a caramel centre and maple syrup frosting topped with crispy bacon."

And now Time magazine tells me of Dunkin Donuts new doughnut bacon sandwich!

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/03/dunkin-donuts-doughnut-bacon-sandwich-isnt-as-bad-as-you-think/

Bacon and maple syrup cheesecake? Oh dear....

With my main client closing for a week over the August Bank Holiday, I'm hoping to have a spare evening in the next week or so to whip up a new creation. The Husband has been asking for a savoury cheesecake for a while, and inspired by an amazing gelato I has in Sorrento, Italy about 8 years ago I was thinking about ricotta and basil. Delicate flavours, and basil is often served with desserts and strawberry-based edibles, so worth a try.

But my husband really likes bacon. Really likes it.

As do I, and our favourite breakfast is a stack of American-style buttermilk pancakes with crispy rashers and a pot of maple syrup for drizzling (me) or drowning (him). But I have boundaries, and he does not. And the only way I can prove to him the idea is a daft one is to actually make him  a bacon and maple syrup cheesecake and them watch him try to eat it.

I've only found 2 recipes for a bacon cheesecake on t'internet;. One of them includes 3 pounds (!!) of lardons and the other uses bacon dripping instead of butter for the base. So clearly I'm going to have to make up my own.

So come the weekend I may have in the fridge on my first truly revolting and inedible cheesecake.

The things you do for love.

First cheesecake sale (weather permitting)

Two cheesecakes dispatched this morning: One Blueberry & White Chocolate and one Madagascan Vanilla & Oreo cookie. Our ever temperamental fridge frosted up over night, so the tasters we had this morning were pretty grainy and full of ice crystals. Hmm. After a small 8am panic I decided they'd probably be fine once taken out of the fridge, but as south London is a sweltering 26 degrees today they may also melt. Just heading back to the cafe to drop off my invoice so am hoping today's creations haven't turned to mush in the last 4 hours and that they'll still be happy to pay me.

Husband & I then meandered down to Abbey Mills, the slightly incongruous foody/shoppy 'village square' off the giant ugly Colliers Wood retail park. Had their decent sized 'Half Breakfast' served by spectacularly surly sixteen year olds, featuring some snappably crispy bacon (as it should be) and including a decaf coffee that didn't taste too much like dirt. Nice times.