These bacon-wrapped jalapeo poppers have a creamy interior and a crunchy exterior. They’re simple to prepare and taste far superior to conventional poppers.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 12 poppers |
Ingredients
- ½ cup cream cheese
- ½ cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
- 12 jalapeno peppers, halved lengthwise, seeds and membranes removed
- 12 slices bacon
Instructions
- Gather ingredients. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
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- Mix cream cheese and Cheddar cheese together in a bowl until evenly blended. Fill each jalapeño half with cheese mixture.
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- Put halves back together and wrap each stuffed pepper with a slice of bacon. Arrange bacon-wrapped peppers on the prepared baking sheet.
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- Bake in the preheated oven until bacon is crispy, 25 to 35 minutes.
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- Serve hot with your favorite dipping sauce. Enjoy!
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- If using thick-cut bacon, pre-bake the bacon at 400 degrees F on a parchment-lined baking sheet until partially rendered but still pliable, about 8 minutes. Let the bacon cool slightly, wrap it around the peppers, and secure with toothpicks before proceeding with step 4.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 213 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 3 g |
| Cholesterol | 51 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 11 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 540 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Fat | 18 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Good recipe. I chose to blanch the poppers for a couple of minutes to make them easier to bite into without it coming apart. I also found was a cheesy mess if wrapping 2 put back together. I chose to make twice as many poppers and wrapped each half and voila no cheesy mess. I also played with cheese filling. Added paprika, chili powder and garlic powder and made half of them. Then added my homemade hot pepper flakes to rest of cheese to create a hot batch. Yum
We have been making this for several years now, and love it. For anyone wanting to spice it up a bit, try adding up to 1 table spoon of taco seasoning to the filling. We use “taco potion 19” but the stuff you get in envelopes at the grocery store would probably be just as good!
Great recipe! Thank you for posting it here for our use and enjoyment. My whole family loved them.
Delicious!!
Love it. Although the grocery did not have jalapeños so I used regular sweet peppers! Turned out great!!
These were great! After scooping out the seeds, I chopped them up and put them in with the cheese stuffing. Gave the poppers a bit more of a kick.
Excellent! The use of both cream and cheddar cheese are much better than one or the other. My go to recipe from now on.
So first off it seems like a lot of people don’t know how hot fresh jalapeños can be. True poppers usually are hot. Also don’t cut them in half then wrap them back together. Stuff with a spoon and then use back side of spoon to stuff all the filling in, it will lead to no spillage. If you have an issue with spice take only half of the seeds from the whole batch and blend in a mixer with cream cheese and shredded cheese. Throw out other half of seeds. I did sort of a stuff and split method because we grow our own peppers and the small ones were not worth the hassle of emptying. So just split, scrape, stuff and sprinkle some cheese and chopped up bacon for those. I also added 1 habanero to my whole batch. It really brings out the spice and flavor of the poppers
These were simple and amazing!!! Thanks for the recipe
I was disappointed. All the filling melted out so the peppers were virtually empty. They tasted good, though, so if I try them again, I will freeze them first and then bake. Maybe the filling will stay put.
I sprinkled in some garlic powder. Delicious.
I use a very similar recipe, and they are amazing! I mix cream cheese with shredded fiesta cheese. I also wrap and bake them as halves instead of whole peppers. Don’t forget to not only remove the seeds, but also scrape out the membrane that holds the seeds. If you leave them in, they will be very hot!
Super easy and super delicious! I like the haves better not the whole .
I didn’t see the caveat about pre-cooking thick-cut bacon, so I just added seven-ish minutes on the end of the 30 that I used initially. Delicious!
I didn’t use this recipe cause I already had them stuffed then I found this while preheating oven I left my papers in half and use a mixture of sharp cheddar and mayo then I lay a half of bacon slice on top thick cut I try to make them a little cheaper i find a halt a slice of bacon on top is plenty and to the person who said they were too hot did they scrape out the seeds and membranes ? If not that’s why they were so hot
I didn’t add any additional cheese. I did use whipped cream cheese as it was easier to spread. Cooked in the Air fryer for 15-17 minutes at 390 degrees and came out perfectly. Super yummy!
I love the jalapeños bacon poppers!
This was insanely easy and a BIG hit at our July 4th pool party! Even die hard “I don’t like jalapeno peppers” loved this bacon (meat candy!) wrapped treat. They ate them dipped, they ate them not dipped, and they ate them all! Great stuff..and I am a grill and microwave kind of guy so if I can do it anyone can!
For the people that said to hot to eat. Did your remove the seeds?
Amazing. I used a combo of dill havarti and cheddar and threw in some chives. Came out amazing. Also, I just want to comment on a one star review I read…. You gave it a one star review because YOU messed something up? This is why it’s really hard to suss out reviews on ANYTHING anymore. The hyperbole is real!
Great recipe – loved the flavors! The peppers were a bit too crisp so I think I’d either roast them alone, then stuff them and put back in the oven to finish. Instead of Ranch, I served with Raspberry Preserves for dipping and that took it to the next level,