Maybe your planned flower delivery is delayed. Maybe the nasty weather has you stranded at home and unable to head outside to shop for gifts to mark the holiday. Or maybe you have a package of bacon and some toothpicks sitting around the house and some time to kill. It doesn’t matter. You don’t need a justification to make bacon roses. You don’t even need a holiday.

Foodbeast and Popsugar teamed up to make this video guide. They also have a recipe page, but there are very few ingredients here. Just bacon, chocolate, and maybe a dollar-store plastic rose to steal the stems from.

How to Make Chocolate-Dipped Bacon Roses, Because ‘Murica [Foodbeast]

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