Home » Recipes » 5:2 Diet5:2 Diet, Recipes, Vegan Basics 136K Shares Jump to RecipeThis is my original carrot bacon recipe that started an internet craze! It's salty and sweetly smoky, really delicious, and easily made from carrots and five other basic ingredients. Try it for yourself!This post contains affiliate links. For more information, please see my privacy policy. The original carrot bacon recipe!You saw it here first!Years before anyone in the West had even heard of TikTok, I developed and published this baked carrot bacon recipe. What's that saying about often imitated but never bettered? Well this is it - the real deal. The original and the best!Carrot baconOkay, let's get this straight - carrots are not the same as bacon!I know that. However, a lot of people, when they give up meat, miss bacon, so my carrot bacon goes some way to filling that void.I also know that some Americans seem to be obsessed with cooking their bacon to a cinder (why?!), and most Europeans, in my exper...