Great idea.. Jazz it up with a blue or goats cheese stuffing and use a finely sliced cured ham as a wrapping. Lemon and chive creme fraiche to dip it in and you have a winner!! I agree with Leslie about the par boiling for 3 minutes. It make a worthwhile difference.

I'm going to add crab in the cream cheese mixture for some of them... then wrap with the bacon. I might try some baked and some flashed fried in oil until the bacon crisps. I love food.

I also add a strip of bacon held with a toothpick and then grill them. I just use plain cream cream cheese but will try it with the added cheddar next time.

Try using a few different types of cheese with your cream cheese and adding sausage to the mix. It is delicious.

This is also great - if you add Hormel Bacon Bits to the stuffing....

I always use the bacon as described above. I would also like to suggest boiling the pepper halves for three minutes. This takes a little of the sharp crunch from the pepper but does not affect the taste. In fact, I think that baking with a slightly softened pepper helps the flavors to blend! Thanks for this recipe!

What makes this recipe even better is if you take 1/2 a piece of bacon and wrap each jalapeno. Push the bacon into the cream cheese filling to secure, or you can pierce each one with a water-soaked toothpick. When you bake them, put each popper into a pan that's able to catch drippings (a mini muffin pan works great). Just bake until the bacon gets crispy. The salt from the bacon adds a whole other level. To make it a low fat appetizer just use light cream cheese and lower salt bacon (you can also use a third of a strip and it works). Enjoy!