Give our Flawless Cheese and Bacon Turnovers recipe a go today, the perfect Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, or even served up with beans and chips for dinner!
The best thing about these turnovers is how easy they are to make.
Cheese and Bacon wrapped in a puff pastry square and baked in the oven. You can use any type of cheese or bacon that you like, get baking today!
How to make Cheese and Bacon Turnovers?
Check out our video with step by step guide on how to make these puff pastry turnovers at home.
Watch and follow along with our Youtube Video (this recipe will be featured next)!
Or continue to read below for more tips.
Greggs Bacon and Cheese Wrap Copycat
Anyone who has visited a Greggs Bakery in the UK would probably have seen, smelt & tasted their Bacon and Cheese Wraps?!
This is where we got the idea to make this recipe from scratch, for those people who don’t have a Gregg’s nearby when you need a bacon and cheese fix!
The good news is YOU can make this meaty cheesy pastry snack easily at home!
Ingredients
Cheese and bacon turnovers only require four basic ingredients, puff pastry, bacon, cheese and egg.
Puff Pastry
We use a ready-rolled pastry sheet, which is quick and easy. You can buy pastry squares or cut them into squares yourself. Alternatively buy a block of puff pastry to roll your own.
Or if you have the time and patience, make your own rough puff pastry.
Roll your ready-rolled puff pastry flat onto parchment paper and cut into 6 equal(ish) squares.
Bacon
You can use streaky bacon or back bacon, smoked or unsmoked? The choice is yours! You can even buy ready-cooked crispy bacon rashers if you wanted to speed up the process.
First, you will need to cook your bacon off in a pan until cooked to your preference. We only cooked ours lightly but if you like it crispy you can make it crispy!
Remember they will cook longer in the oven too, so don’t overdo them.
Place the pre-cooked bacon diagonally across the pastry, and add a generous handful of cheddar over the top of the bacon.
Cheese
We use mild-medium cheddar for the kids and a mature cheese for the adults to give a richer taste!
Try either Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Havarti, Colby, Gruyere or Gouda. You could even do a combo of two kinds of cheeses.
For the best melting results, the cheese should be grated.
Add a generous handful of your chosen cheese over the top of the bacon
Now fold one corner over the cheese and then the other one over the top of that corner. Make sure to push pastry firmly together where they join to prevent the dreaded unfold in the oven!
Egg
This is used to wash over the pastry, which helps give a beautiful golden colour. You can use milk instead if wanted.
Brush over all the exposed pastry with egg wash to help them achieve a golden brown colour during cooking.
Cheese and Bacon Turnover cooking temperature and time
Lay onto a baking tray covered with parchment paper, leaving enough space between them for the pastry to puff a little.
Cook in a preheated oven at 190°C Fan / 210°C / 415 F/ Gas Mark 6 for 15-20 minutes, remove when they are golden brown and flaky!
Once cooked, remove from tray and place on a wire rack to prevent the pastry from forming a soggy bottom.
Cook in a preheated oven at 190°c for 15-20 minutes, remove when they are golden and flaky!
How to serve Cheese and Bacon Turnovers?
Best served straight from the baking sheet, whilst the cheese is still melted and stringy!
They can be served anytime for breakfast, brunch, lunch, after school snack, or dinner.
This recipe makes 6 big turnovers, if you wanted you could make 8 or 12 smaller ones for snack-size party food!
Our Flawless Cheese and Bacon Turnovers are the perfect treats for all occasions, everyone loves them!
Cheese and Bacon Turnover Storage
Any leftovers should be kept in an airtight container or sealed bag, and kept in the fridge for up to 2 days. They can be eaten cold or reheated.
Reheating
For easy reheating pop them in the microwave for about 1 minute.
Alternatively, place it back in the oven 180°C Fan / 200°C / 400 F/ Gass Mark 6 for 10-15 minutes.
Freezing
These cheese and bacon wraps are ideal for making ahead and freezing ready to cook from frozen when you want them.
Cook them as instructed, freeze them as soon as they have cooled.
Then cook them from frozen in the oven at 180°C Fan / 200°C / 400 F/ Gas Mark 6 for 25-30 minutes.
Flawless Cheese and Bacon Turnovers
Ingredients
- 6 rashers Bacon Your choice of Streaky/Back Bacon and Smoked/Unsmoked
- 1 Sheet Puff Pastry Ready Rolled
- 130 grams Cheddar Cheese Your choice of mild or mature
- 1 Egg Whisked
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190°C Fan / 210°C / 415 F/ Gas Mark 6. Fry the bacon over medium heat until cooked to your preference, place to one side.Roll out the ready-rolled puff pastry sheet, cut the pastry into 6 equal(ish) Squares1 Sheet Puff Pastry, 6 rashers Bacon
- Lay the bacon across the pastry diagonally, top with a handful of cheese.130 grams Cheddar Cheese
- Now fold one corner over the cheese and then the other one over the top of that corner. Push the two corners firmly together to prevent them from unfolding during cooking.
- Coat any exposed pastry with the whisked egg.Place them on a tray with a gap between them to allow them to puff!1 Egg
- Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until golden brown.
- Best eaten warm!
- See post for storage, reheating, and freezing instructions
Video
Nutrition
This post was originally published on 02/04/2019 and has been modified on 14/10/2021 with updated step by steps, and tips for creating these puff pastry cheese and bacon turnovers.
Recipes using puff pastry
If you liked this cheese and bacon turnover recipe, check out our puff pastry pizza or Tomato, Bacon & Mozarella Swirls recipes.
For a sweet dessert using puff pastry try our Apple Strudel. Or if you really want to impress make our fantastic Salmon En Croute with Puff Pastry
Easy recipes for kids
Thank you to my daughter Zara for making this and showing you all how easy it is, don't forget to leave her some comments below to let her know how good the recipe is!
She has also created a Easy Cheesy Pasta Bake, no-bake Edible Cookie Dough and Chocolate Cornflake Cakes.
It is really flawless! So tasty and really good!
Thank you so much, Jen
Glad you think they are Flawless 🙂
Enjoy!!
This was really amazing! Everyone at my house enjoyed it.
Thank you, Toni
We love our cheese and bacon turnovers, we made these over the weekend for kids, they love them lol
These not only taste great but they smell amazing while baking so yummy!
Thank you, Audrey
Great to hear you like our Cheese and bacon turnovers 🙂
So very tasty!
Thank you Alexa 🙂
Hi just wondering do you all use greaseproof paper on yor baking tray,when making these?🙂
Hi Janet
Thanks for the question?
We use parchment paper when cooking our turnovers but you can use tin foil or grease the baking tray.
Hope this helps and you enjoy the recipe 🙂
Hi Janet
Thanks for the question?
We use parchment paper when cooking our turnovers but you can use tin foil or grease the baking tray.
Hope this helps and you enjoy the recipe 🙂
Has anyone tried freezing them and having them cold in a lunch box?
Merci Zara! Delicieux, Je reviendrais pour d'autres recettes! 🤗
Hi Marie
Zara said your most welcome and glad you enjoyed the cheese and bacon turnovers, they are a big hit in our home:)
Enjoy!!
Love that you used puff pastry in these. They look fabulous. Gonna share recipe with family.
We are making these tomorrow (Christmas Eve) so we can reheat for a Christmas morning breakfast treat for the family!
I have made these at home for my kids for years, another twist is to use mozzarella instead of cheddar the kids love the stringyness of the mozzarella
Yes, my daughter loves stringy mozzarella cheese! I prefer a nice strong sharp cheddar!
These cheese and bacon turnovers are to die for. I think they're a great snack but having them with beans and chips for dinner as this post recommended is also great!
A perfect midweek dinner for the kids!
Being able to buy puff pastry makes these so fast, yet so special. Everyone loves them, thank you! Truly flawless. 😉
My heavens, such a simple idea that turns into a fantastic recipe. I have all the ingredients and yet I've never thought about putting them together. My mouth is watering just looking at the turnovers. They would be perfect for my brunch next weekend.
These turnovers look incredible! What a great and fun breakfast idea!
These look incredible! I love the flaky, saltiness of them and so easy to make too! Definitely trying ^_^
My mouth is watering just looking at them! I think I'm going to surprise my hubby and make it for him tomorrow morning!
Hope he loved them!?
Oh how I love turnovers! Especially when they are filled with Cheese. This Cheese and Bacon Turnover recipe looks really delicious and mouthwatering!
We all wait with drooling faces for them to come out of the oven!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that your daughter made this! I try to have my kids involved in the kitchen as much as important. It is so important and helps them (hopefully, with my picky eater!) helps them try more things too!
Yes, my daughter is fussy but managing to win her round when she makes it herself!
Oh my gosh!! Melty cheese, bacon and all in a handy puff pastry packet! Yes, Please!
Hard to resist! 😉
I am not familiar with the original bakery ones, but your kiddo did deliver a fantastic job here! They look professionally made! Hope to see more of Zara's helping in the future!!
She is desperate to do more!!! So sure you will see her on here again 😉
What a lovely post! Zara - you did a fantastic job, and I hope you'll be helping out with recipes even more in the future! My own two kids are 18 now (they're twins) and they've been helping with the cooking and our family's food blog for nearly 8 years now - it's so wonderful to work on recipes together! 😀 And DEFINITELY thank you for sharing this recipe!! As far as I know, there aren't any Greggs Bakery locations here in America, and oh my goodness, it looks like we're REALLY missing out! So glad these are such a snap to make at home! Yum!
Shelley, thank you for your lovely comment! I have 4 kids and 2 of them love to help us in the kitchen, they keep asking to make their own blog with all kids recipes..... not a bad idea, but need more time!!
These sound delicious and I am sure my kids will love them.
We all love them in this house!!
Theses look really scrumptious with no greggs at moment giving these a try
Hi Gillian
Thanks for your comment
Hope you enjoy these turnovers, we loved this recipe
Stay safe 🙂