Take A Bite Out Of This Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf!

Ingredients :

4 pounds lean ground beef
1 medium red onion, sliced and grilled
12 bacon strips, cooked and chopped (if infusing). If you are placing the bacon on top of the loaf just par cook the bacon)
2 pounds Kraft mild cheddar cheese (or your favorite cheese)
8 medium eggs
6 tablespoons Heinz Worcestershire sauce
4 tablespoons Chipotle Pepper Sauce
2 cups Great Value bread crumbs (optional)
2 tablespoons Morton salt
1 tablespoon McCormick’s black pepper
Ingredients for glaze:
20 ounces of Heinz ketchup
5 tablespoons of Chipotle Pepper Sauce

Instructions :

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
In a large mixing bowl, add all meatloaf ingredients together and mix well (you can use latex gloves). Make certain all ingredients are mixed thoroughly.
On a greased sheet pan or loaf pans, mold the meatloaf into two loaves
Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes and remove from oven
Precooked 12 strips of bacon (optional)
Glaze the loaves with about 1/3 of glaze mixture
Return loaves to oven and bake another 15 minutes
Remove loaves again and re-glaze using another 1/3 of the mixture
Lay bacon strips (if using) on the top of the meat loaves
Return loaves to oven a bake at 400 degrees F for another 15-20 minutes or until the internal temperature is 165 degrees F
Remove from oven and let the loaves “rest” about 5 minutes
Slice meatloaves into about 3 ounce pieces and serves two pieces per plate
Instructions for glaze:
Mix ketchup and Chipotle Pepper sauce together