Sandra Lee's Baked Beans Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 pound slab bacon, thickly sliced and chopped into 1/2-inch dice
2 (32-ounce) cans baked beans
1/2 cup ketchup
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tablespoons hot pepper sauce
2 tablespoons honey

Preparation

Step 1

In a heavy pot or Dutch oven, add the chopped bacon and cook over medium heat just until the fat begins to render, about 4 minutes. Add baked beans, ketchup, brown sugar, hot pepper sauce, and honey and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Reduce the heat slightly to maintain a simmer for 25 to 30 minutes, or until flavors are combined.
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REVIEWS: (69)

I have used this recipe for several years now and my guests always leave with the recipe. I do DRAIN the bacon fat however. Depending on my guest list, sometimes I use only half the hot pepper sauce and half the brown sugar. I myself prefer all of the hot pepper sauce and all of the brown sugar. Awesome recipe. Thanks Sandra!!!

I've been making these beans since 2004. Everyone and anyone who has tried these beans love them. I've made exactly as the recipe. But depending on the people I am making these beans for; sometimes I make the sweeter with more honey, sometimes I use add a different hot sauce along with the regular one and make it spicy, and sometimes I do both. No matter which way, everyone just loves them

This recipe is so easy and yummy. The whole family loves them and I am begged to bring them to BBQs.

My family loved the recipe. I did listen to some of the other reviews and added a few things. I added chopped onions to the bacon when cooking them and I drained the fat. I also added about 4 tablespoons of KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce. It gave a great flavor.

I loved this recipe!!!! I brought them to a party and they were an immediate success. None left over for me!!!!

I have made these twice, and everyone agrees they are some of the best beans they have ever tasted. No one would guess they started with a regular can of baked beans. I mix them up in the crockpot, and keep them simmering all day long. By the time dinner comes around, the flavors have really come together.

I have never been a bean person, but I was somehow recruited to bring them to a potluck. I didn't want to just dump a can of beans in a pot and call it good, but I didn't want an all-day project, either! I had most of the ingredients at home already, which was great. I omitted the honey and just bought Bush's honey baked beans and honey cured bacon (I used regular--I couldn't find slab bacon. I also used chipotle hot sauce, which added a wonderful smoky background flavor. I took a cue from another of Sandra's bean recipes and tossed in a couple shots of bourbon for good measure! : That's what I love about her recipes--they give you ideas that you can adjust to your personal taste. Sweet, smoky, and delicious. They were the first things gone, and everyone thought they were homemade! I even thought they were great! i would definately recommend these!

This recipe was the easiest to fix. These beans have so much rich and bold flavor that you can hardly wait to sit down at the table. My family said they were the best Baked Beans they had ever tasted.

The grease slick on top was a bit of a turnoff, but the real problem was the horridly sweet flavor. Not a keeper.

Too sweet and very greasy because the recipe doesn't have you pour off the bacon fat. I will "doctor" up my beans my old reliable way.

Unbelievably sweet. Too the point where they were not something you'd want to eat. Also, all the orange grease was unpleasant.

My family ENJOYS these. When I make these, I quadruple the recipe. They are easy to make and you can spice them up as much as you want. My family enjoys them the most when flavored with habanero sauce. Anyone can make these and spice them to their liking.

Chose this recipe b/c it looked really easy, but I wasn't sure what to expect. In a few words, I was pleasantly surprised!! To avoid some of the issues mentioned in previous reviews, I drained the fat from the bacon and cut back a little on the brown sugar for the sweet factor. I made them the day before our event and they were even great re-heated.

Simple, delicious, finger licking good. A hit any time I serve this. Thank you

My hubby says they're too greasy and sweet.

These beans got rave reviews at my last cook-out. I made them the day before and just heated them through at the party.

I have made this recipe at least 10 times. One person said "These beans are so good I want to pour them on my chest and eat them". I am making them for my brothers rehearsal dinner this summer. When I make them I cook the bacon until almost done and also drain off most of the grease. I taste as I add to make sure it isn't too sweet. I suggest making with Frank's Red Hot sauce. The best baked beans I have ever had!

We didn't enjoy these one bit. They were greasy too.

Yes, the beans are a bit sweet, but that's the way we eat them in the south. Good recipe.

Far too sweet with the ketchup and other sugars. It was greasy too because I didn't drain the bacon. Maybe they left that step out of the recipe.

It amazing how good these doctored up beans are.

I used this recipe and not only I, but six other people loved them! I guess it's just personal preference!!! Thanks for a wonderful baked bean recipe Semi-Homemade!

These were terrible. More like dessert than beans.

These were the best beans I have ever had in my life.

These were certainly nothing special. Much too sweet for our taste. No one wanted me to use this recipe again. But they were not horrible.

The few people that finished their helping of these beans did not ask me for the recipe. I don't blame them. They were unpleasantly sweet.