Place one of these morsels into your mouth and experience a flavour and texture explosion. Each mouthful is crispy, crunchy, chewy, smokey, sweet and salty. Dates are stuffed with smoked almonds, then wrapped in streaky bacon and seasoned with ginger soy sauce, before being baked.
Double or triple the recipe for a large crowd! You can also use prunes or dried apricots instead of dates or mango chutney instead of the almonds. Serve on top of watercress greens.
These are awesome!! I had these back in the 80's when I was stationed in Bermuda. Feel free to substitute walnuts for the almonds, apricots for the dates, I've even used smoked oysters and sliced water chestnuts wrapped with the bacon ... limitless combinations. - 24 Sep 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I made these today with smokehouse almonds, figs, low sodium bacon, and brown sugar (I forgot to buy soy sauce and ginger). I also sprinkled them with red pepper flakes after they were in the cake pan, because I wanted them to have some kick (they are devils, after all). They take a little while to put together, but they cook up quickly, and they're REALLY good. My buddy who was over to watch football loved them, as did my girlfriend's buddy who was over to get her hair done. If you want something tasty and impressive, and you don't mind taking a little time to make them, these are awesome. I think I'm gonna make a super spicy batch for Halloween. - 09 Oct 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This was a hit! We demolished them in about 2 seconds. Everybody wanted more. Only thing I would suggest don't do to much brown sugar. This was a easy quick recipe. - 24 Jan 2011 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)