Texas Twink

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Slice one side of jalapeño from stem to tip. Slice across stem end to make a "T." Pit inside of jalapeño free of seeds and membranes.

Place jalapeños on baking sheet and bake at 300 degrees for 10 minutes.

Remove jalapeños and place in bowl of ice water to extract additional seed oil (otherwise they will be extremely spicy.)

Cover bottom of inside of each jalapeño with a tablespoon of Philadelphia Cream Cheese.

On top of the cheese, pile two ounces of marbled brisket.

Close the pepper around the stuffing and wrap with thick-cut bacon.

Add pinch of Kosher salt and coarse ground pepper.

Place poppers on baking sheet at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes using Perfect Mix Pellets.

Remove peppers and paint with homemade BBQ Sweet Glaze.
BBQ Sweet Glaze Ingredients:
1 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 cup vinegar
1/4 cup mustard
Instructions: Bring glaze to a full boil, then simmer for five minutes. Let sit for an hour.

Paint poppers, serve with cold beer, and devour.
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The Texas Twinkie jacks up the usual cream cheese-filled happy hour fave with marbled brisket and an unctuous armor of crispy, thick-cut bacon. Then this mutant morsel is triumphantly painted with a homemade BBQ glaze. The best part? You don’t even need a deep fryer. Just a crazy urge to make jalapeño poppers at home, because that’s your idea of fun. Now let’s get poppin’.
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Texas Twinkies -Jalapeños Stuffed with Smoked Brisket

Home / All Recipes , Appetizers / Texas Twinkies -Jalapeños Stuffed with Smoked Brisket
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Step 1: Purchase and Prepare the Jalapenos
Step 2: Un-Hot the Peppers (optional)
Step 3: Prepare the Cheese and Brisket Mixture
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Super-sized jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese and brisket then wrapped in bacon and smoked until perfecly done. Named and made famous by Hutchins BBQ in McKinney, TX.
Cut a "T" into each jalapeno pepper by cutting halfway through the pepper just below the stem then cutting a slit from the top of the "T" to the tip of the pepper.
Carefully pry open the pepper and deseed and devein the peppers with a thin, sharp knife then give them a good rinse under cold water to remove any remaining seeds.
Make the stuffing mixture using 2 cups of pulled brisket, 16 ounces of softened cream cheese, 2 cups of shredded smoked gouda, and 1/2 cup of Jeff's original rub. Mix well.
Stuff the peppers with the stuffing mixture.
Stretch thick slices of bacon then wrap a single piece around each pepper. Secure with a toothpick.
Setup smoker for cooking at 225 degrees with indirect heat. Use pecan wood for smoke and if your smoker uses a water pan, fill it up.
Cook peppers directly on the grate for about 3 hours or until the bacon has a good bite-through and the peppers are soft to your liking.
When the peppers are ready to eat, give them a good glazing with thinned barbecue sauce and crank up the heat to 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

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These “ Texas twinkies ” were named and made famous by Hutchins BBQ in McKinney, TX. Many of us have been stuffing peppers with cheese and meat and wrapping them in bacon for as long as we can remember but this version uses whole extra large peppers stuffed full with delicious smoked brisket, wrapped with a thick slice of bacon and smoked until perfect.
As usual, I've put my own spin on these but I will go over the exact way that they make them in McKinney, TX so you can duplicate that at your house if you're so inclined.
Remember that Wooster brisket I cooked up a few weeks back (hopefully you've had a chance to try it too)? I had a couple of pounds of bits and pieces from the fatty point of that smoked brisket and that's what I used for this recipe.
Let's get to stuffin' and wrappin'!
When acquiring the peppers, it's important that you hunt around and find the largest jalapenos you can find. I happen to know that my local grocery store always has large ones so that's where I went and I was not disappointed. These peppers where super-sized!
Caution : If you are not accustomed to handling raw peppers, it is advisable to wear gloves for this exercise. If you choose to not wear gloves, don't touch your eyes, nose or any sensitive part of your body until you have washed your hands several times and you are sure that the oils have been removed.
To prepare the peppers, I cut a “T” in them to give me ample access while reducing the ability for them to leak cheese during the cooking process. The pictures will explain what I mean:
Cut halfway through right below the stem.
Then cut a slit from the top of the “T” to the point or bottom of the pepper.
Use a thin, sharp knife to get in there and remove the seeds and veins while carefully prying the pepper open with your fingers. This is harder than it looks at first but once you've done a couple you'll get into a rhythm and it's not as painstaking as you might assume.
Remove as much as you can and then just simply give them a rinse under cold water to get rid of the remaining seeds.
Take a little nibble on a couple of the pepper edges to see what the heat level is. If they are hotter than what you like, simply soak them in sprite or 7-up or a generic version of these for several hours to remove some of the capsaicin. About 2 hours is usually sufficient.
This also makes them more child friendly.
Grate about 2 cups of the smoked gouda
Place 8 ounces of the softened cream cheese along with 1 cup of the grated cheese, 1 cup of meat and ¼ cup of Jeff's original rub ( Purchase formula here | Purchase bottled rub ) into a bowl and mix together.
I made a batch of smoked brisket mixture along with a batch of chorizo mixture.
If you choose to do only a brisket mixture, then you'll need to mix 16 ounces of cream cheese, 2 cups of grated cheese, 2 cups of meat and ½ cup of Jeff's original rub ( Purchase formula here | Purchase bottled rub ) into a large mixing bowl.
How much of this mixture you'll need depends entirely on the size of the peppers you find.
Fill the peppers as full as possible with the meat/cream cheese mixture.
See that pepper in the front that does not have a stem end? I accidentally snapped it off and will need to wrap it differently to make sure I don't lose any of the cheese.
You'll need a thick slice of bacon for every pepper that you have stuffed.
Stretch the bacon to extend it and make sure it is long enough to wrap the pepper as much as possible
Wrap the bacon around the pepper beginning at one end and working your way to the other. It is important that you cover the cut areas on the pepper as much as possible to reduce the possibility of the cream cheese mixture escaping during the cooking process.
Use a toothpick to secure the bacon.
I placed these on a Bradley rack to make it easy to transport these around. You can also use a Weber grill pan (which I absolutely love) or a simple cooling rack.
These are so easy to cook and you can use ANY smoker for these. You can also use the grill or even the indoor oven if you haven't purchased a smoker yet.
Preheat your smoker to 225°F using indirect heat and if your smoker uses a water pan, fill it up.
I used pecan wood for these as it gives off a really delicious smoke but you can use whatever smoking wood you have available.
Once the smoker was heated and ready to go, I placed the bacon wrapped peppers directly on the smoker grate. I could also have left them on the rack and they would have done just fine.
Let the smoke flow for the entire time and when the bacon has a good bite-thru and the peppers are soft to your liking, they are done. This took about 3 hours for mine at 225°F.
You can also brush them with a little barbecue sauce if you like. I thinned some of my barbecue sauce ( Purchase formula here | Purchase bottled sauce ) down with a little of the sprite that I got from the soaked peppers and gave my peppers a good glazing with the heat cranked up to 350°F for about 15 minutes.
Just as soon as they are done, hide a few and then watch them disappear. If this don't bring smiles to the faces of those you cook for, then nothing else will!
This version of stuffed peppers is VERY labor intensive but they are well worth it in the end. As always, the pepper with the cream cheese and the bacon along with the delicious smoked brisket added in just melted in my mouth and I could have eaten the whole batch by myself!
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With the large peppers I use a cheese slicer to slice the cheese and then a knife too cut slices into 1/4”x1/4” PCs and just drop them in. Same with the chorizo. Then wrap. Have never used chorizo, I skin brats or other types of sausage and scrape it down the slot till full. I also add one other secret ingredient that will win any or all popper cook offs.? If interested PM me on FB.

This recipe is great, my wife and kids don't do spicy and they loved it. I am a big smoker, follow a lot of your recipes. didn't have any Brisket, so used smoked butt. Was just as good, It's the smoke that makes everything so good. Thank you
I used left over pulled pork versus the brisket and they came out marvelous.
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We made them tonight, but they were scarfed up before anyone could take a picture of them for ya, but they looked a lot like yours did… Thank you – I needed a fun recipe to enjoy after a another day of stressful work.
Oh, as for the brisket part I didnt have any laying around or have the time to make it so we ran down to a neighborhood BBQ joint – they were happy to see us :-) we “accidentally” bought too much… like that's even possible???
Cheers n happy holiday weekend! :-)
If I am cooking these in the oven at what temperature and for how long should I cook them?
I haven't done these in the oven but I figure you could get by with cooking them in the oven at about 300°F for maybe 1 to 1.5 hours or until the bacon gets done and to the right texture.
Jeff, do you think these would freeze well?
I haven't tried it but I figure they would freeze just fine.

I made these New Years eve with some St Louis ribs. Both the ribs and these gems came out fantastic! One twist, I did not have any brisket, but I did have leftover prime rib from Christmas and I stripped the rib meat off the bone. When I tasted it, the meat didn't have a ton of flavor, but once cooked and mixed with the filling, it was perfect. Even the wife thought it was the best app she's ever had! I can only imagine if I had the brisket! Guess what I'm saying, you can stuff ANY meat, whatever you have leftover or even breakfast sausage, italian sausage, round beef, even chicken or turkey and it will come out great! Bet leftover turkey drums would be really good too! Great recipe, very easy if you are already smoking something.
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