BACON, makes the world go around...

CHOCOBACON Chip Cookies


You add bacon to anything and ninety-nine percent of the time, you will have something pretty damn tasty. It it one of the universal ingredients that can save any dish, it is a culinary juggernaut that is found in the best of dishes. So why not add it to the cookie classic and twist up you memories of enjoying chocolate chip cookies. You mom probably didn't let you have chocolate chip cookies for breakfast, but now that you're all grow'd up, you can have a little breakfast for cookies. I use Maple Bacon to add to that breakfast feel when you bite into two of you childhood favorites - home cooked Saturday morning breakfast and home-baked cookies. 

CHOCOBACON CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients

Chocochips with Bacon bites!

3/4 cups Butter (1 + 1/2  stick of butter)

1/4 cup rendered Bacon fat

2 1/4 cups Flour

1 tsp Kosher Salt

1 tsp Baking Soda

1/4 cup Sugar

1 1/4 cups Dark Brown Sugar

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

2 tbsp Milk

1 1/2 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract

1 1/2 cups Chocolate Chips

1 1/4 cups cooked maple bacon diced 
into tiny delicious bites

Directions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F.



2. Cook your bacon to crispy deliciousness and save the bacon fat.

3. Add 1/4 cup of the bacon fat (there may be more left behind, but try to refrain from adding it all) to a saucepan and mix with 3/4 cups of butter and let it melt, mingle and marinade.

While you let the butter and bacon love melt together

4. Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda and set aside.



5. Pour the melted “baconbutter” into a mixer's work bowl.

6. Add the sugar and brown sugar and cream the butter and sugars on low ‘stir’ speed.

7. Add the egg + yolk, 2 tablespoons milk and vanilla extract and mix until well combined.

8. Slowly incorporate the flour mixture until thoroughly combined.

9. Stir in the chocolate chips.


10. Stir in the bacon bits.


11. Chill the dough in the fridge.

12. Scoop onto parchment-lined baking sheets.

13. Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown, checking the cookies at 8 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet for even browning. Cool completely and store in an airtight container.

Now that you're all big boy (or girl), you are free to do what you want; And for me, a plate of these with a grande caramel flavored, soy coffee sounds like an amazing start to that work day at that big boy career.

Recipe added by Esteban W. Yelper @ thesandiegan.yelp.com or do the tweet thing @sdca2hnlhi