This is a recipe we make quite a bit. One of my older sons actually brought some sweet mini peppers to the house one day and made the poppers with the sweet peppers instead of the usual jalapenos and they were AMAZING!

One of the younger boys loves to make these so he takes on the task of getting them ready for the oven whenever we need to make them.

Pepper Poppers

Ingredients:

• 12-14 peppers, mini sweets, or jalapenos are what we use
• 8 oz cream cheese, room temperature
• 1-2 pound bacon
  

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400. Grease a cookie sheet or use a silicon mat, set to the side. We like to use a
baking pan with a rack to hold the peppers up as the bacon will make grease in the pan.
Wash the outside of the peppers and remove stickers, if necessary.

Cut the peppers in halves, lengthwise. Remove seeds – use gloves if using hot peppers and DO
NOT touch your eyes!

Spread the cream cheese in each half of the peppers.

Wrap ½ a slice of bacon, or a whole slice if you really like bacon. Secure with a toothpick if
needed.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until bacon is crisp.

Note:

You can add in other things to the cream cheese before spreading it into the peppers. We like to
use cooked sausage, chopped onions, garlic, or more peppers, and a variety of spices.