Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Candied Bacon.
Will you still love me if I do this?
How about this?
I’m hoping so, considering you loved me after this and this. I think. By the way, I enjoy this unconditional crush we’ve got going on.
Believe it or not, and judging from today’s title I’m sure you’re teetering on “not,” I have a plethora of healthy meals to share with you.
I swear. That’s actually what we eat… like 80% of the time. Sort of.
I just can’t.get.them.out.
There is something utterly gratifying and spectacular about creating a recipe that makes you feel the need to go to confession. A cookie that makes you feel like an adulterous glutton, a chewy round of peanut butter laced with chocolate candied bacon that feels so wrong but tastes so right. A snack that lands at the top of the list for thisiswhyyourefat. A sweet and salty fusion that sends many into a panic, who claim that you’re the reason “all Americans are fat” and this particular cookie deems you responsible for all childhood obesity occurring after May 17th, 2011. Something a little freakish about putting pork in a cookie, I admit. It happens people. Forgive me for I have sinned.
Don’t fight the chocolate bacon. Just give in.
And don’t ask why my brain decides to come up with these things – I find it nearly as convoluted as you do, and I have to live with it. It’s pure torture I tell you.
Recipes like this are just so much better than green stuff. That’s my argument. And a fact.
Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Candied Bacon
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 4 slices cinnamon-sugared candied bacon
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Dip candied bacon slices in melted chocolate and let come to room temperature while preparing the dough. If needed, stick them in the fridge for a few minutes.
- Cream butter, peanut butter and sugars together in the bowl of an electric mixer until fluffy – about 3-4 minutes. Add egg and vanilla, mixing until combined. Add flour, baking soda and salt, mixing until just combined and dough forms. Crumble bacon and fold it into dough. Drop tablespoon-sized dough balls on a baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.
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136 Comments on “Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Candied Bacon.”
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I fucking hate bacon!! The fact that I stumbled this makes me furious!!! Bacon cookies? WTF America is way too fat.
Really? Are you also someone who goes to the carnival and complains that there are rides?
I didn’t have baking soda but made these any ways… and my cookies came out BIG and PUFFY. I thought that omitting the baking soda was supposed to make flatter cookies?
I like that your candied bacon recipe makes eight slices of bacon while your cookie recipe calls for four, since that was all that was left for the cookies.
So the other day at work we talked about bacon and how it makes everything in life better (I had ordered mustard soup and it came without bacon which is just a big no-go.). Someone mentioned how, well, you know, this only applies to savory stuff, no? You wouldn’t put bacon in, say, pie now, would you? I felt my Barney-Stinson-moment was come when all I could say was “Challenge accepted!”
Now these guys are cooling on my counter and they smell delicious and I want one so badly. It’s 11:30 pm where I am, though, so I can’t try. (Yeah, that makes sense… I cover bacon in chocolate but somehow eating cookies in the middle of the night is too rebellious. Uh huh.) But I’ll let you know (whether you want or not) how they turned out – I suppose I’ll get either promoted or fired tomorrow. ;)
Okay, I made these. They were uh-maaaa-zingggg and number 1 office talk for at least 2 days. (To the point of causing my friend to blog about them http://hipstersandclogs.tumblr.com/post/6723498182/day-292-clogs-jana-came-to-the-office-today )
And I wish I were kidding when I say that one of our designated vegetarians ate one after we told her it was bacon from ‘happy pigs’. I strongly believe that candying, chocolate-coating and putting-in-a-cookie-ing bacon has completed my life.
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So…can anyone help me out here? I was going to double this recipe, but some googling has me confused. Should I double the baking soda or just 1.5 it? Your candied bacon is in the oven right now…. :)
Also, the cookies are for tomorrow…should I hold of on baking till then? Any input from anyone welcome!! How do these taste the next day? Thanks
Oh and. I must have over-did my coating of sugar/cinnamon on the bacon, so I had to make more. Then I had excess coating to use up, so in went more bacon. And so forth…and so forth…
I would just double it completely – also, I always think baked goods are best the first day. If you have time tomorrow, bake tomorrow. If not, they should be fine baked today. Just let cool completely then seal in an air tight container.
Agreed. I’ll bake them tomorrow. Thank you for the recipe and the reply!
I’ve been mulling over how to keep bacon crisp when added to baked goods. I think this chocolate covered bacon is the solution! Does it stay nice and crispy with the chocolate coating protecting it?
Thanks! These sounds and look wonderful :)
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