Bacon rosebuds

I was inspired by this AntiCraft article* to make a bacon tiara for Zoe. She's quite a picky eater, but bacon is one of about thirty foods that she'll consume. I was hesitant to use TG-RM, seeing as there's no way to insure that at some point a kid, a dog, a cat, a husband, or a fish doesn't wander into the kitchen and get a whiff of something they shouldn't, so I decided to try it without chemical assistance. The tiara fell apart, but I think the roses came out OK. They're way too big for what would have been the tiara, though - the bacon squares would have needed to be about a quarter the size they were, and that would have been tough to work with.

I think I'm going to have to make some of these next time I make bacon-wrapped asparagus, and I think I'm going to have to break out the kitchen torch. The center of the roses weren't quite as done as I'd like.

*(via DPUD)