Have you ever noticed there are food trends?

Lychee is the new pomegranite which was the new blood orange. I noticed these trends while going out to lunch around the city, seeing what odd fruits suddenly appeared in grocery stores, and noticing what the special martinis are on menus. There is one food item that has been a major trend on its own and seems to be taking over the internet: BACON

Oh lordy how I do love bacon. My husband also loves bacon. All my friends love bacon. Bloggers love bacon. Non-bacon food companies love bacon. Geeky gadget companies love bacon! People who don't necessarily want to eat bacon, love bacon! (by the way, all those underlines are different bacon links around the intertubes, enjoy!)

One of the most mortifyingly terrific bacon concoctions I ever came across is the Bacon Explosion. We made our first foray into bacon explosion creation back in March. I was not completely satisfied. I wanted to take it to another level, make it more our style. Enter the Ba-cake Bacon Explosion Breakfast Sandwich.

We took the basic, and I believe original, Bacon Explosion recipe found here. Instead of BBQ sauce, we used maple syrup. Another change, we baked ours in the oven rather than on the grill. Cook the loaf at 325 for about 45 minutes to an hour using a meat thermometer to check for doneness.

The peice de resistance is the addition of Ba-Cakes, a favorite invention we came up with a couple of years ago combining the best of breakfast foods. Precook a pack of bacon; half gets crumbled into pancake batter and cook the 'cakes as you normally would. Our Ba-cakes become the bread of our brekfast sandwhich, which is then genersouly topped (or sparingly drizzled inside) the completed sandwhich. VOILA.

Check out the rest of the pictures from putting this together here.

I think I should submit this badboy to thisiswhyyourefat... On the night this was made, one of our friends whined that he just couldn't eat this heart-attack-waiting-to-happen so I made him an omelette of whatever I had laying around at the time (spinach, shallot, red and yellow mini bell peppers if I remember correctly). Notice what ended up on his plate anyway. Men...