Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas...With Bacon Slideshow

Artichokes are that one vegetable that everyone goes crazy over, because they look hard to make but they're really not (shh). Want to make everyone go even crazier? Stuff the artichokes with cheese and sprinkle them with bacon. They're like plump Christmas trees fresh after a first snow. 

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Bacon Breadsticks

While you're preparing the breadsticks for this year's Christmas dinner, twist a few slices of bacon in them and bend them into candy canes shapes. That'll start a few fights over the bread basket this year. 

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Parsnip Packages

Here's one way to get your kids to eat more vegetables: wrap them in bacon and make them look like presents.

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Bacon-Wrapped Dates

Say that one five times fast. To make one of our favorite bite-sized treats even better, we added some crème fraîche to the mix to make them look like cute little Santa hats.

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Peppermint Bacon

For those of you who are maple syrup and bacon fans, this one's for you. We make ours all the more festive by sprinkling a few crushed candy canes over them. Because hey, you can never have enough candy canes during the holidays. 

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