Thanksgiving Leftover Bacon Cups

Leftover stuffing and mashed potatoes stuffed into crispy bacon cups and baked to perfection to give your Thanksgiving leftovers a tasty new lease on life! 

Thanksgiving has come and gone, but the leftovers are haunting my fridge like a sad, carby ghost. Don’t get me wrong, I will never scoff at leftover mashed potatoes (mostly because I never have mashed potatoes in my house because I will eat them all in one sitting), but sometimes the leftover game just gets so mundane. I mean, how many times can you eat a tiny version of Thanksgiving in one week before you want to just throw it all down the disposal, order a pizza, and move into making Christmas cookies?

This year, I decided to give my leftovers a facelift by doing what any rational person would do when you want to make food more delicious. Add bacon, of course! More specifically, stuff it all inside of bacon. Because, holidays.

When you see how simple (–and taste how delicious) these Thanksgiving leftover bacon cups are, you’re going to wonder why you haven’t always been shoving your leftovers into tiny bacon cups all these years!

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THANKSGIVING LEFTOVER BACON CUPS

To start this recipe, first preheat your oven 350 degrees. Next, prepare a muffin tin by spraying it with cooking spray, then line each slot with a slice of bacon. Next, cut 6 slices of bacon into 4 small pieces, and line the bottom of each muffin tin with 2 pieces, to fully cover the bottom of the tin. Fill each bacon cup about half full with prepared, leftover stuffing. Each muffin tin will use about 1/4 C of stuffing. Stuff each cup until full to the top with about 1/4 C leftover mashed potatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, until bacon is crispy and potatoes are slightly browned. Top with chopped fresh parsley and serve. You could also serve with leftover gravy or cranberry sauce, if desired!Enjoy!! 🙂 Leftovers can be reheated in the microwave for about 45 seconds. Feel free to go crazy with this recipe and throw in any other leftovers you want to use up! You could shove in some leftover turkey, corn casserole, or anything else that you think would taste good! If you like wrapping food in bacon you’re going to LOVE our bacon explosion recipes from the BBQ Brothers! We have the original bacon explosion, a pizza bacon explosion, and then the Thanksgiving bacon explosion, which will use up a ton of leftovers for you!

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**Recipe created by Caitlin

What do you think? Did this recipe make the cut for you or did it crumble? What would you do differently? I look forward to reading your opinions! 🙂