Puffy Bacon Twists (with BBQ Ranch Sauce)

Bacon twisted around buttery dough and baked til crisp. Seriously. Dip it in the BBQ-Ranch sauce and it makes a perfect (and easy!) side dish or appetizer for your summer parties!

Ingredients:

For the twists
1 pound thick-cut bacon
1 sheet Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry, thawed (half a package)
lots of toothpicks

For the sauce
1/2 cup ranch dressing
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
dash hot sauce to taste, I used at least a teaspoon of Sriracha.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Layer the bacon on a metal cooling rack set on top of a large cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes, or until about halfway cooked.* Remove from oven and let cool slightly. Don't turn the oven off.
Roll out the sheet of puff pastry onto a floured surface a couple times with a rolling pin to smooth it out. Use a pizza cutter to slice the dough into as many strips as you have strips of bacon--for me this was 10. (Each strip was about an inch wide.)

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