Outrageous Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese

What you need:

    • Jalapeno cheese bread, thinly sliced (I used this recipe, store bought is fine too)
    • Salted butter, at room temperature
    • Shredded Mexican blend or Colby jack cheese
    • Bacon, cooked
    • Jalapenos, roasted (directions here) and seeded, as much as desired
    • Whipped cream cheese or softened cream cheese

Directions:

Note: You can roast the pepper as a whole (just flip the pepper after one side has blackened and blacken the other) or you can slice them in half and roast them.

    1. Butter one side of each piece of bread.
    2. In a cool cast iron skillet, add a piece of bread for each sandwich you will make, butter side down.
    3. Top each piece with a generous amount of shredded cheese and then lay down slices of bacon. Our bread was rather short, so I split our pieces of bacon in half to fit.
    4. Fill roasted jalapenos with cream cheese and then place on top of bacon.
    5. Top with more shredded cheese and then top with remaining pieces of bread, butter side up.
    6. Turn on heat at medium low and use something heavy to press the sandwiches down a bit. Remove the something heavy and cook until sandwiches are golden brown on the bottom.
    7. Flip and cook until the other side is golden brown as well.
    8. Let sit for a minute and then slice, if desired, and enjoy immediately!

Recipe from Cook Lisa Cook