Serve the best appetizer recipe when you make this bacon wrapped tater tots with cheese recipe. The tasty salty bacon and tater tots dipped in our homemade sauce is next level delicious!
Bacon wrapped tater tots with cheese recipe — I don’t think any recipe can sound more tasty from just reading it. But don’t worry, this recipe lives up to what you think it will taste like in your head, maybe even better.
Our cheesy tater tots recipe is one of the first appetizers to be completely gone when I serve them. I mean who doesn’t love anything and everything wrapped in bacon and accompanied with cheese. Plus, the dip recipe with the tater tot recipe brings this appetizer to the next level, if that was even possible.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make these bacon-wrapped tater tots with cheese, you need the following ingredients:
- Tater tots, thawed
- Cheddar cheese, cubed
- Bacon
- Brown sugar
- Chili powder
- Mayo
- Ketchup
- Horseradish
- Paprika
- Salt
- Oregano
- Black pepper
- Hot sauce
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to Make Bacon Wrapped Tater Tots
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- Cut tater tot in half lengthwise and place cheese cube inside. Piece back together and wrap with a piece of bacon. (Cut each bacon strip into thirds) This will keep it together.
- Combine the brown sugar and chili powder in a bowl. Then wrap each bacon wrapped tot in the brown sugar mixture. Place on a cookie sheet seam side down. Just keep making them until you run out of bacon.
- After rolling all the tots bake for 20 minutes. Halfway through cooking time turn them over and finish cooking until the bacon is crispy.
- While the tots are in the oven, mix all the sauce ingredients together. Keep in refrigerator until ready to serve.
Frequently Asked Questions
To make the cheesy tots themselves, you will need to have frozen tater tots (that you need to thaw) cheese, we like to use cheddar cheese but you can choose your favorite, and of course bacon!
In order to make delicious tater tots you will want to make them either in the oven or the air fryer. The oven and the air fryer will preserve the crispiness of the tots. Making tater tots in the microwave will leave you with mushy not so appealing tater tots.
We love using the oven to make our tater tots because they keep nice and crispy, but if you want more ways to make crispy tater tots, Baking Kneads has 6 ways to keep tater tots crispy that you should check out for even more ideas!
While we used cheddar cheese, you can also try the following: Monterrey cheddar, pepper jack, mozzarella, colby cheese, and habanero jack cheese.
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Bacon Wrapped Tater Tots with Cheese Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cup Tater Tots, thaw to room temp
- 4 ounces cheddar cheese, cut into cubes
- 16 ounces bacon
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon chili powder
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 2 Tablespoon ketchup
- 1 Tablespoon horseradish
- ⅓ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon oregano
- pinch black pepper
- ½ teaspoon Hot Sauce, Frank's
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- Cut tater tot in half lengthwise and place cheese cube inside. Piece back together and wrap with a piece of bacon. (Cut each bacon strip into thirds) This will keep it together.
- Combine the brown sugar and chili powder in a bowl. Then wrap each bacon wrapped tot in the brown sugar mixture. Place on a cookie sheet seam side down. Just keep making them until you run out of bacon.
- After rolling all the tots bake for 20 minutes. Halfway through cooking time turn them over and finish cooking until the bacon is crispy.
- While the tots are in the oven, mix all the sauce ingredients together. Keep in refrigerator until ready to serve.
Notes
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These look so incredible delicious and so bad for you. But perfect for game days!
To save time on the party day, could I prep these ahead of time and then freeze them until I’m ready to bake? Maybe thaw in the fridge overnight the night before?
I think they would freeze well after reading over the ingredients. We have only made them on the day of the party. Let us know how they turn out. I’m sure it will be just fine.
So just not going to tell us how to make the secret sauce??
Hi Kali. The entire recipe is all there for you. I’m thinking you did not scroll down far enough on the post to the full recipe.
Have you ever left the horseradish out of the sauce for people who aren’t the biggest fans? I’m wondering if it would ruin the magic of the secret sauce?
Your sauce will still be delicious without the horseradish.