Smoky Bacon Ginger Cookies

Of all the cookies that I ate JUST today... bacon is always going to be my winner.

Smoky Bacon Ginger Cookies

Ingredients:

8 oz. Bacon, diced

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp. baking soda

1 Tbs. ground ginger

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp. salt

3 Tbs + 2 tsp. unsalted butter, softened

3/4 cups packed light brown sugar

3/4 cups granulated sugar

1 large egg

1/3 cup unsulfured molasses

1/2 cup raw sugar (for rolling)

1. Cook bacon until crisp.

2. Pour off fat and reserve, let bacon and drippings cool.

3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

4. combine flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon and salt.

5. Beat butter and sugars.

6. Beat in bacon drippings.

7. Add eggs and mix.

8. Add molasses.

9. Add flour mixture.

10. Mix in diced Bacon

11. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and roll balls in raw sugar, then flatten.

12. Space 2-inches apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake 1 sheet at a time for 8 minutes, rotating at 4 minutes.  

Creating some awesome a-- cookies is not all cookie chef Shelley I. does, she also contributes to Yelp.com and displays her powerful writing skills and can be found @ ironstomach.yelp.com  she makes restaurants as tantalizing as bacon.