But Nigella Lawson's latest creation is enough to challenge even the most adventurous of home cooks.
The television chef has devised a chocolate brownie recipe with a difference: one of the main ingredients is bacon.
Nigella created the recipe to share exclusively with lifestyle website Emerald Street, which she recently guest edited.
She confessed that she didn't originate the pairing of bacon and chocolate, saying that she was introduced to the combination by Vosges Chocolat, whose Mo's Bacon Bar, sold in Selfridges and on their website, uses Hickory smoked bacon as a key ingredient.
The bacon chocolate brownies are, she says, her 'act of homage to this unholy union.'
The recipe combines 125g of streaky bacon with the more traditional chocolate brownie ingredients, golden syrup, butter, brown sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, bicarbonate of soda and dark chocolate.
Inspiration: The Mo's Bacon Chocolate bar provided Nigella with the idea for her bacon brownies
Inspiration: The Mo's Bacon Chocolate bar provided Nigella with the idea for her bacon brownies
The bacon is prepared by first frying it to crisp it up, before adding it to the combined ingredients.
'I don't deny it sounds weird,' she told Emerald Street. 'But it does really work in a quite straightforward way. Even people who shrink from the very idea find the actual outcome all-too-compelling. '
Nigella says the best sort of bacon to use is the Oscar Mayer American-style bacon (available from larger UK supermarkets), but if it proves impossible to source, then streaky bacon, cut very fine, will do instead.
She counsels cooks to get very thinly cut streaky bacon, without the rind, and to snip it up into small strips.
'You don’t really want chewy pieces of bacon, but rather nuggets of intense saltiness within the rich, gooey chocolate squares,' she says.
Source: Daily Mail
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